DIGITAL JOURNALIST
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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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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Hangar 24 Brewery in Redlands hosts local music on a weekly basis. (Contributed Image)
Redlands combo All Marbles will play at Hangar 24 in Redlands on Wednesday, Dec. 12 from 6-9 p.m.
The show is free and open to all ages (but you can only sample Hangar 24’s wares if you’re at least 21 years old).
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Alien Ant Farm will have a special show in Riverside for the holidays. (Contributed Image)
Alien Ant Farm holiday’s concert “Here Comes sANTa” with the Riverside City College Studio Orchestra is happening on Saturday, Dec. 8.
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The Infamous They will play Bratts in Temecula on Saturday. (Contributed Image)
Local Temecula bands are in the spotlight at Bratts on Saturday, Dec. 8.
Rumor has it there will be Christmas sweaters involved.
Reverend Crow, the new band featuring Finch’s Nate Barcalow, Gatsby’s Fiddle Ken Ebeck and Buckstudly will also perform.
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Lee Koch is playing two shows at The Merc in Temecula this weekend. (Nicole Koch/Contributed Photo)
Temecula singer-songwriter Lee Koch is taking listeners through the story of his forthcoming album with two special hometown shows at The Merc at the Old Town Temecula Community Theater on Saturday, Dec. 8.
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Aaron Richards performs during the 2011 Temecula Music Fest at the The Vault in Temecula. (2011/File Photo)
The Band Wars series has been so successful at Temecula all-ages venue The Vault that the band battle is going on year-round.
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Suicide Silence has set up a memorial fund for the daughter of late singer Mitch Lucker. (Suicide Silence/Contributed Image)
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Pacific today for the Suicide Silence tribute show to singer Mitch Lucker at the Fox Theater in Pomona on Dec. 21.
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Gram Rabbit (Contributed Image)
On the third day of December my holiday music gave to me, Gram Rabbit out in Joshua Tree.
The eclectic desert band has a fantastic song called “California Christmas,” which is for all of us who wear flip-flops while we pick out a Christmas tree.
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Riverside’s No Bragging Rights has released a new video (Contributed Image)
Riverside’s No Bragging Rights released new album “Cycles” in October and now the band’s newest video aims to bring some awareness to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder suffered by veterans.
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