Category Archives: Music

AUDIO FILES: Listen to Marshall Crenshaw and Dave Alvin

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Marshall Crenshaw (Contributed Image)

Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace is bringing in a double bill of icons on Wednesday, Feb. 20. Marshall Crenshaw and Dave Alvin are teaming up for a show at the spot.

Crenshaw, beloved singer-songwriter best known for “Someday, Someway,” has recently started his own subscription music service for fans. Crenshaw plans to release six three-song 10-inch, 45 RPM vinyl EPs over the next two years for subscribers (who also get a download of the music).
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HEMET: Car show and concert set for Sunday at Sharkey’s

Sandbox Bullies

The Sandbox Bullies (Contributed Image)

A car show and live rockabilly and psychobilly bands are coming to Hemet this weekend.

The Lowbrow Showdown will be at Sharkey’s Pizza and Games on Sunday, Feb. 10.

Aces & Thieves, Graveyard Drifters, ThrillBillyz, Tres Muertos, Dr. Bizarro’s Victims, The Daffys, Sandbox Bullies, The Lake Pipes and The Vampz are all on the bill.
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RIVERSIDE: UCR Heat Festival includes Porter Robinson, Tyga, AWOLNATION

Porter Robinson

Porter Robinson will be headlining the Heat Festival at UC Riverside. (Contributed Image)

The Heat is on at UC Riverside, where the student body will not get that Glenn Frey reference at all.

The UCR Heat Festival returns to campus on March 2, with a lineup of EDM phenom Porter Robinson, rapper Tyga, plus AWOLNATION, Surfer Blood and Best Coast. Kid Ink, The M Machine and Audien round out the lineup.
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AUDIO FILES: Listen to Science Fiction Theater, On Being Human, Davis Fetter

Davis Fetter plays an acoustic set at The Press-Enterprise. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)

Davis Fetter plays an acoustic set at The Press-Enterprise. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)

A couple of years ago, we used to have a regular video series called PE Live (later Audio File Sessions), where local musicians came in and did an interview with me on camera and played a few acoustic songs. It was like “MTV I.E. Unplugged.”
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AUDIO FILES: Listen to robots cover Motorhead, The Ramones

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Robots are covering Motorhead and it’s kind of awesome. (Contributed Image)

Robots, metal and punk music. These are a few of my favorite things. Thankfully a friend sent me a video of Compressorhead, a band made up of robots that rock out. It’s like “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” where the robots play, except these are way, way better.
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MURRIETA: Rock the Oaks features Brewer Boys

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The Brewer Boys perform in Temecula in 2012. (2012/File Photo)

Over the last few years, Temecula Live! brought out the best in local country music to raise money for the nonprofit Oak Grove Center.

For 2013, the event is changing. Now called Rock the Oaks, there will be three shows featuring a variety of performers over two days to New Covenant Church in Murrieta over Friday, Feb. 8 and Saturday, Feb. 9.
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