Orange Bits: Runner Runner, Cypress Hill, Avi Buffalo

By Spencer Kornhaber Fri., Jul. 23 2010 at 6:04 PM

Categories: Orange Bits, local bands

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Runner Runner: Good promo pic, or the best?

This week, no one wrote about Orange County music. Well, some people did. But less than usual. Step it up, blogosphere...

Huntington Beach's Runner Runner make their debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in "the tightest black pants around." In the Register's short video interview with the band, the members look a lot... older... than you'd expect. [OC Register]

BREAKING FROM THE PACIFIC AMPHITHEATRE: The people who show up to Pink Floyd cover band concerts aren't the coolest people in the world! In other news, scroll down to see a comment from a real live member of the Pink Floyd Experience. [OCR]

Crowd members light fires at the Cypress Hill/Slightly Stoopid "Legalize It" show in Irvine. Security shrugs shoulders. [OCR]

LOL, the Register can't publish the word "shit" even when quoting the Offspring's Dexter Holland. [OCR]

The Dan Band, who plays the Grove tomorrow evening, got its start like all great bands do: at a karaoke night. [OCR]

"Faggot!" an audience member yelled at a Streelight Manifesto show at House of Blues Anaheim. And with that, ska lost its innocence. [Daily 49er]

The zaniness just doesn't stop when the anonymous friend of Dahga Bloom interviews Dahga Bloom. [Ruffian]

Will it ever be possible to write about Hindu Pirates without mentioning their ages? Yes, probably in a few years. Until then... [OC Gazette]

The AV Club poses a similar question to our/Long Beach's Avi Buffalo. They're so young! [The AV Club]

Merle Haggard talks John Wayne, is gruff. [OCG]

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