​A little more than a week ago, Jonathan Toubin played his Soul Clap set at LA club the Satellite. Two days later, the popular New York DJ was involved in an accident that reads like something out of a movie.

While sleeping in his hotel in Portland, where he was due to perform, a taxi cab rammed into his ground-room floor and pinned him between the car and the room's back wall. The cab was stuck, so three maintenance men lifted its tires and inched the car off Toubin. He was semi-conscious and able to talk but covered in blood as he was rushed to the hospital.

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Music has been said to have healing powers and the ability to soothe the savage beast. Local musicians and Costa Mesa's Detroit Bar are gathering to soothe the pain of the savage beast that is cancer Saturday. Come Together: A Benefit for Brita will help raise funds for Brita Corradini, 31, wife of Andrew Corradini (of Handsome G and several other local bands), who has been diagnosed with Stage Two breast cancer.  Brita is six months pregnant and will begin chemotherapy while pregnant. The couple have a one-year-old daughter, Alabama.

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​On Sept. 1, Hopeless Records and its charity imprint Sub City are throwing an invitation-only party to celebrate a milestone: they've raised $2 million for charity.

The idea for the Sub City was dreamt up in 1999. The staff at Hopeless Records thought the imprint would be a great way for bands to use their music to make a positive impact, and it was a good way to connect with their fans as well.

The Van Nuys-based company gives 5 percent -- 2.5 percent from artist royalties and 2.5 percent from the label -- of the revenue collected from the suggested list price of albums released on Sub City to a charity chosen by artists.
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​Foreign tragedies have a way of hitting close to home when you're world famous and have embarked on several world tours. For Southern California's Linkin Park, the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan affected them on a personal level. "We have family ties to Japan," Chester Bennington, vocalist, said. "When you play somewhere so many times you start to feel at home. When something at home happens, it's like it happens to you." More >>

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We've featured Hot Topic favorites Franki Doll & the Broken Toys more than a few times here at OC Weekly (from band profiles to wedding announcements), but now they're headlining a show presented by Audio/Visual, where they get to play with Stay the Night and Jupilar, right after a screening of The Evil Dead.

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​Days after the devastating earthquake in Japan, X Japan's frontman Yoshiki put up his see-through Plexiglas Kawai grand for auction to raise money for the Japan Relief Fundraising Auction.

Withing eight minutes of the auction, the bid shot from $.01 to $42,000.00; within hours, an online bidder pledged a staggering $73-million. Two days after it was put up for auction on April 17, Yahoo! Auctions temporarily suspended the auction, citing an overload of unexpected high volume of traffic on the site, high bidding prices, and the time required for bidder confirmation procedures.

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​If you're anything like us, you're probably jonesing really bad for Fleet Foxes' upcoming set, Helplessness Blues, due for release to the masses on May 3.

If, however, you have a couple of thousand to ease your pain (unlike us), you can bid on a test pressing of their upcoming sophomore release. Fleet Foxes is selling it to a lucky bidder on eBay to raise money for Japan. The auction ends in four days, and the bid is currently at $2,700.

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​It's the holiday season, and that means it's time to think about others, especially the less fortunate. In that vein, a fine charity called Coats for Kids is collecting new and used winter coats and jackets for underprivileged children. To commence the spirit of giving, they and Enlarge Media will be hosting their second annual coat drive kickoff concert at the Strand in Huntington Beach on Saturday, December 11.More >>

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​Tomorrow is World AIDS Day, so Alicia Keys asked artists such as Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Swizz Beatz and Usher to sign off Twitter and Facebook to help raise money for Keys' charity, Keep a Child Alive.

The campaign is called Digital Life Sacrifice and it hopes to raise $1 million.More >>