DIGITAL JOURNALIST
Late Night Revival will release its debut album on Dec. 20. (Contributed Image)
Riverside’s Late Night Revival is almost ready to release a new album, but the band has just put out a video for the new single “Angel & Me.”
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Huell Howser signs autographs before filming a segment for his PBS show “California’s Gold” in front of the renovated train depot in Perris. (2009/File Photo)
Huell Howser is retiring, and, well, that’s amazing.
Kim Dea and Kelley Deal perform with The Breeders at the 2008 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio. (2008/File Photo)
I want to rock out with two female-fronted ’90s bands tonight.
Up first, Veruca Salt, a band named after a character in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (Contributed Image)
I love the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. I saw them something like seven times before they split and then I went to one of their first reunion shows at the Avalon in Los Angeles a few years back. One of my college friends actually flew in for about 36 hours just to see that show.
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John Taylor, left, performs with Duran Duran at the 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (2011/File Photo)
One category that always makes it onto my Christmas list is music biographies/autobiographies.
There are a few out this year that I’m interested in, but none moreso than John Taylor’s “In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran.”
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Psychedelic Furs (File Photo)
Few things make life better than watching “Weekend at Bernie’s.” Like “The Godfather,” it is a film that I will cancel plans to watch.
In fact, I love the movie so much that two friends and I dressed up as the cast for Halloween a couple of years ago.
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Killswitch Engage will headline California Metalfest VI on Saturday in San Bernardino. (Contributed Image)
California Metalfest VI, which comes to the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino on Saturday, Nov. 24, will be dedicating the all-day onslaught of metal to the memory of late Suicide Silence singer Mitch Lucker, who died Nov. 1 after a Halloween motorcycle accident.
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MC Hammer, left, and PSY are seen on stage at the 40th Anniversary American Music Awards on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
Everyone’s talking about MC Hammer and PSY at the American Music Awards last night and all I can think about is my old cassette copy of “Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em.”
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The Dangers will play Redlands on Saturday, Nov. 17. (Maria Baglien/Contributed Image)
If you’re looking for something to do Saturday, I can’t recommend checking out The Dangers at Hangar 24 in Redlands enough.
Chris LeRoy is one of the most underrated songwriters out there and the band’s new album, “Embrace the Light Outside,” only proves my point more.
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The Beatles (AP Photo)
Today’s edition of the Audio Files is a special one. This whole week is actually a pretty great one. I marked my move to California six years ago earlier this week and today is another anniversary.
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