Orange County Blog

What are you doing in May 2009? Not sure yet? Well, try to pencil in a few days for OC Music Fest 09, which happens in about 10 months in Irvine and promises to feature nearly 100 established and up-and-coming bands.

In the meantime, you creative types may want to enter the Be The Shirt band/artist T-shirt design contest.

For details regarding the contest and festival, read the press release after the jump.

Quirky Portland electro-pop thrillers YACHT and spunky LA punk funsters Mika Miko are playing Samueli Theater at the Orange County Performing Arts Center Thursday June 26, and we have two tickets to give away.

First person to comment to this post will win them.

Here's a video of YACHT's “I Luv a Computer” to whet your appetite.

Oakland psych-pop darlings Rogue Wave roll into Orange County Performing Arts Center (OCPAC) Thurs. May 22 in support of their latest album, Asleep at Heaven’s Gate.

Good news: we have two tickets to the concert that we’d like to give to one of our readers. The first person who can tell me the title of Rogue Wave’s debut album will win ’em. (Please send your contact info to me at dsegal@ocweekly.com . Also, note that by entering this contest, you agree to be added to the email list of Boost Mobile [the show’s sponsor].)

Show info:

Boost Mobile and OCPAC Present:
Rogue Wave w/ Voxhaul Broadcast
Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 8pm
Orange County Performing Arts Center
600 Town Center Drive
Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Here’s the video for Rogue Wave’s “Publish My Love.”

Mogwai fans! Want to win a signed copy of the expanded-edition reissue of the Scottish post-rock group's classic 1997 album Young Team? Go to the website of our sister paper Riverfront Times (St. Louis) and enter the contest headed by RFT music editor Annie Zaleski. Supposedly only 10 of these autographed copies exist. You have until May 20 to participate. A winner will be chosen at random.

And now here's a video for a live version of "Mogwai Fear Satan.”