The O.C.

A Music App for Every Occasion

source: East Bay Express

 CA Pinback's cover of Camper van Beethoven's "Wasted," was tagged as "Wasted)," with erroneous artist name the OC Mix 6. Shazam still earns props for recognizing this obscure cover, and with a database of more than eight million songs delivers far more ...

Published Tue, May 26

Greg Kot: How the Internet Changed Music

source: TIME

Then in 2003 the producers of The OC called — the group didn't even have a website, and a major television show had heard them online. Two years, one record label switch and thousands of illegally downloaded songs later, Death Cab for Cutie had a gold ...

Published Wed, May 20

Opinion: This Week in the OC Weekly

source: blogs.ocweekly.com

Music features articles on Morning Benders and Paul Masvidal's prog metal. Albert Ching's "Sound Guy" column reviews Mission Viejo rapper Apoetnomadali; Locals Only listens to Moostache; and we've got CD reviews of Franz Ferdinand's "Tonight: Franz Ferdinand" (Domino) and Lars Ho...

Published Mon, Feb 2

Opinion: This Week in the OC Weekly

source: blogs.ocweekly.com

• Music features articles on Sean Wheeler and Zander Schloss' new accoustic project and the Meat Puppets' comeback. Albert Ching contemplates the best tribute bands to never exist in Sound Guy; Locals Only listens to Mothers Sons; And we've got a CD review of Plies, "Da REAList" (Slip-n-...

Published Mon, Jan 12

Opinion: This Week in the OC Weekly

source: blogs.ocweekly.com

• Music features articles on Albert Ching's Favorite Things, the worst lyrics of 2008 and the top 10 Indie rock albums. Chris Ziegler looks at KUCI DJ Ashley Eliot in Aural Reports, Locals Only listens to Dolphin City and we've got a CD review of The Damned's "So Who's Paranoid" (The English...

Published Fri, Dec 19

Tonight In Rock: Justice, Rise Against, The Secret Machines, Asobi Seksu

source: LAist

The Damned @ House of Blues Sunset The Horrorpops @ House of Blues Anaheim The Henry Clay People, The Tall Hands @ The Cat and Fiddle Pub Hollywood Chuck Ragan (of Hot Water Music), Tim Barry (of Avail), Ben Nichols (of Lucero) @ The Glasshouse

Published Fri, Oct 31

The OC - Ryan & Marissa - Forever Young (Alphaville)

source: GageZone.com

What am I supposed to do, now that they killed off Marissa? Right! Videos about my favorite couple from The OC: Ryan and Marissa! Music is by Alphaville, it contains spoilers and... I hope you guys like it =)For the ones who asked me to ...

Published Wed, Apr 9

From the OC to C of C: Q&A with Phantom Planet

source: College of Charlston George Street Observer

Planet to perform at the annual C of C Homecoming concert, at 8 pm at the Music Farm on Valentine's Day. The southern-Californian four-piece band is most famous for their hit "California," the theme song for the Fox drama "The O.

Published Wed, Feb 20