Music

This category shouldn’t be confused with performing arts. Articles in the music category are more contemporary music, focusing more on contemporary bands and solo artists. This category will also be a home for album reviews.

Buskerfest rolls new local bands onto the streets

While the sun set behind the skyscrapers and bubbles blew through the crowd, music filled the streets of downtown Long Beach at Summer and Music’s fourth annual Buskerfest Saturday night. Before the competition began, Buskerfest started off with the Sea Funk Brass Band and last year’s winners, Wild Pack of[Read More…]

Struggle, escape pervade Red 9’s debut

Red 9, an indie rock band from Southern California, adds another alternative/grunge album to the popular mixed genre’s list. The full-length debut album titled “The Host” contains eight songs, all of which sound like cookie-cutter grunge rather than alternative. The band begins its album with a slow drumbeat in the[Read More…]

Norah Jones changes up formula for fourth release

Norah Jones adds diverse instrumentation in her fourth album to make it a delicately beautiful purchase for the holidays. Although Jones doesn’t make any especially dramatic changes to her soft jazz music in her newest album, “The Fall,” the electric guitar buzzes and upbeat drums contribute a passionate energy, which[Read More…]

Blink is back

IRVINE — Excitement and the smell of fresh kettle corn filled the air Sept. 17 as fans piled through the gates of the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for an event four years in the making: the reunion of Blink-182. A curtain hid the stage as the audience eagerly chanted the band’s[Read More…]

Monkeys raise art punk to new level

Arctic Monkeys’ third album is an amazing, surreal punk rock collection that’s out of this world. Although British disco punk bands such as Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party have faltered on its third record, Arctic Monkeys from Sheffield, England, have only grown more engaging with its third album, “Humbug.” Rather[Read More…]

Screaming down the packed house

ANAHEIM – The Used’s CD-release concert of “Artwork” was a spectacular scream-fest for some of its biggest fans. The first 400 people who ordered “Artwork” were able to attend an exclusive CD-release show at Chain Reaction on Monday. To let even more fans in the already-packed venue, the Utah band[Read More…]

The Used’s new album a dark success

Screamo favorites, The Used, announce their new album “Artwork,” which they described as the album they have looked forward to the most since their first release in 2002. Alternative Press Magazine described it as the “definitive album of their career.” The band made many changes with this album, including working[Read More…]

Annual punk rock summer camp

Picture this: a venue with over thirty bands playing on several spread out stages. At this venue, fans from every area of rock music and the bands that they love can all gather together in peace and listen to the music that soothes their souls. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t[Read More…]

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