Category Archives: Music

AUDIO FILES: Listen to The LeeVees, Guster

The LeeVees made Hanukkah songs that rock. (File Photo)

Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah and it’s only appropriate to feature a Hanukkah song for today’s Audio Files. The LeeVees put out a great album, 2005’s “Hanukkah Rocks,” which brought some much-needed power pop love to the holiday. Here’s my favorite song off the album, titled “How Do You Spell Channukkahh?”
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SUICIDE SILENCE: Band reveals vocalists for Mitch Lucker tribute

Suicide Silence has set up a memorial fund for the daughter of late singer Mitch Lucker. (Suicide Silence/Contributed Image)

Riverside metal band Suicide Silence has announced the first wave of guest vocalists that will perform with the group on Friday, Dec. 21 at a tribute concert in honor of singer Mitch Lucker at the Fox Theater in Pomona.
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RIVERSIDE: Lara Landon on Jars of Clay charity compilation

Lara Landon has a new Christmas EP and is on a compilation to benefit Jars of Clay’s chartity Blood: Water Mission. (Contributed Image)

Lara Landon, a Riverside native who now lives in Nashville, is on a new Christmas compilation album with Christian music heavyweights Jars of Clay for the band’s charity “Blood: Water Mission,” which has provided water and access to HIV/AIDS education, treatment and support in sub-Saharan Africa.
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AUDIO FILES: Listen to Run-DMC

Run-DMC got into the Christmas music biz for a good cause. (Contributed Image)

The first Christmas album I ever bought was the original “A Very Special Christmas.” I remember getting it when it came out on cassette back in 1987 when I went Christmas shopping with my grandmother. I was supposed to be shopping for others, so I ended up with a lecture about why it’s better to give than to receive when I got home.
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HOLIDAY MUSIC: Large tours, Inland acts book seasonal shows

Barry Manilow returns to McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert for his holiday shows. (FIle Photo)

Want to support some local music this holiday season? A lot of bands are doing special shows for the occasion.

Check out my column this week, which features local bands playing holiday shows, including Borrowed Bones, MT Robison and The Messengers, Suspicious Activities, Audigraffiti, Pococurante, MANNTIS, Knock-Out, Hit the Switch, The Robbery, The Sleeping Sea King, The Paper Crowns and so many more.
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REVIEW: Garbage, Imagine Dragons at San Manuel

Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson performs at San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino Thursday, Dec. 6. (Terry Pierson/Staff Photographer)

Garbage singer Shirley Manson told the capacity crowd at San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino in Highland on Thursday night that she and her bandmates were disappointed when they came to the venue and saw that it was filled with thousands of seats.
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