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Free Gun With Purchase: Death By Stereo Has Risen…

In what’s shaping up to be a killer album, Death By Stereo has released their second single and subsequent music video, “Free Gun With Purchase” off the upcoming album “We’re All Dying Just In Time”, which couldn’t be a more fitting title for what’s going on in the world today. With the band hitting it’s […]

Post Show Thoughts: Lauren Ruth Ward with Valley Queen and AC Sapphire at the Casbah San Diego, CA

In what was to be the first date of a US tour (Friday, March 13th, 2020) to coincide with the release of Lauren Ruth Ward’s Vol. II album, it would turn into a single record release show (for the time being) as the world has pushed the pause button. For those of us who were […]

Post Show Thoughts: Commissary Lounge “Grand Opening” featuring Naked Aggression, The Last Gang, and Melted

On February 6th, I was invited to the grand opening of the Commissary Lounge located in Costa Mesa, adjacent to Gunwhale Ales. The Commissary Lounge is a new 21+ concert venue being operated by Ben Clor and Efrem Schulz (Programme Skate, Death by Stereo, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Manic Hispanic) to bring local and touring acts […]

Throwback: Gwen Stefani and No Doubt 1994

Remembering a time when Gwen Stefani and No Doubt were not household names on a national level, however, they were beloved in their local stomping grounds of Orange County.  Throughout the 90’s and into the early 2000’s, Cal State Fullerton would hold free noontime shows featuring local bands or bands that were on tour and […]