DIGITAL JOURNALIST
The Rolling Stones perform at the Prudential Center in Dec. 2012. (Evan Agostini/AP)
It’s amazing what the power of a photo and the anticipation of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival lineup can do. On Thursday, Jan. 3, Coachella posted a photo of a round object on the Eldorado Polo Club field on the festival’s Facebook page.
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Davis Fetter (Contributed Image)
When I took over the music beat from my predecessor many moons ago (back when the original MySpace was still the best way to find local music), one of the local bands that he kept raving about was Venus Infers.
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Noa James (Contributed Image)
Two Inland rappers are heading on the road this winter for the Road to Paid Dues tour.
Noa James and Curtiss King, who have been putting out some of the best music to come out of the region year after year with Black Cloud Music, will be joining Murs on the tour, which goes around the U.S. and ends at the Paid Dues Independent Hip-Hop Festival in San Bernardino in March.
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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival just posted a new photo on the Coachella Facebook page of a spherical object in front of the Santa Rosa Mountains out in Indio.
Here’s my question–is it a round stone, perhaps rolling, on the Empire Polo Club field? Is it a hint that The Rolling Stones headlining rumors may be real? Is it Goldenvoice just having fun with all of the anticipation?
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City Mouse (Denise Borders/Contributed Image)
Riverside punkers City Mouse are around to rock out this weekend with a hometown show at Morgan’s Tavern.
They will be joined by Dead Broad, Goodbye to Sunlight and Floor Notes.
7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, Morgan’s Tavern, 4850 Tyler St., Riverside, free, 21 and older only.
Anita Pointer, founding member of the Pointer Sisters, performs with neices Sadako and Issa at Pechanga Resort & Casino. (Fielding Buck/Staff Photo)
It feels like a Pointer Sisters kind of day, probably because we’ve been talking about them here in the office.
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Divide the Day. (Contributed Image)
Divide the Day, As You Were, Sederra, Valora, Nations Afire and IllFX are on board to play a show at the House of Blues in Anaheim on Friday, Jan. 4.
Divide the Day has been posting new songs periodically over at their Bandcamp page. Here’s the latest one, “Prove them Wrong.”
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Neon Trees. (Contributed Image)
Did anyone else ring in 2013 with the faces of Neon Trees on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”?Singer Tyler Glenn and guitarist Chris Allen hail from Murrieta and were in Times Square where even Jenny McCarthy recognized them as one of the biggest acts of 2012.
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Bob Vennum and Lisa Kekaula are Bob & Lisa. (Contributed Image)
Some of the Inland Empire’s finest songwriters and rockers are gathering for a special show at the Mission Tobacco Lounge in Riverside on Saturday, Jan. 5.
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Death Cab for Cutie (Contributed Image)
Here are some songs about the New Year that I enjoy. Also, I promise you that the Semisonic song is not “Closing Time.” It’s “This Will Be My Year,” another great song off “Feeling Strangely Fine,” which I feel deserved more attention than just to be labeled as an album of a one-hit-wonder. Dan Wilson is an incredible songwriter and I love Semisonic.
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