Oliver Scherillo / OC Weely

Nocturnal Wonderland

Nocturnal Wonderland
Sept 22 - 23, 2012
NOS Events Center

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Nocturnal Wonderland Day Two @ NOS Events Center
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Over the weekend the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino was transformed into a magical Alice and Wonderland electronic dance music themed festival filled with five different stages, interactive art installations, pyrotechnics, themed performers and thousands of EDM fans dressed the part. Giving Disneyland a run for it's money, Insomniac Events created Nocturnal Wonderland for it's 17th annual journey down the rabbit hole and we are breaking down the two day event from A-Z with the good, the bad and the plain bad ass!

A - is for Axwell who rocked the shit out of the Labyrinth Main Stage closing out Friday night. With mash-ups like ASOL and Dyro's "Top of the World" vs. Wippenberg's "Pony" vs. Tommy Trash's remix of Aston Shuffle's "Won't Get Lost" the stage was in full rage mode. Though we heard Sebastian Ingrosso's set was pretty similar we give it up to the Swedes for knowing how get a party dancing and producing some of the sickest tracks of the season like "Greyhound" and "Don't You Worry Child."

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The TriTone Latin Music and Arts Festival is set to kick off a month from today, starting on October 19 in Chino. As interested would-be festival goers have definitely taken notice, the lineup of talent has slimmed down considerably from when it was originally announced. Back then, TriTone boasted an assembled roster of artists uniting three key eras of rock en español and Latin Alternative music crossing generations and borders.

Even better, it was all set to take place at Prado Regional Park in mid-October, avoiding Coachella-style commutes and sizzling temperatures. As great as it all had sounded, the first-time festival flirted with ambitious overreach starting out as a three-day weekend event with no single-day passes available for a niche musical genre still trying to find its place in Southern California. More bands were promised, though, but as TriTone nears, many of big name draws have disappeared. What happened?

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Saturday night's headliner

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*Doheny Days: Day One - Doheny State Beach - September 8, 2012

*Doheny Days: Day Two - Doheny State Beach - September 9, 2012

*FIDLAR on What it's Like to Party with the Hives

Summer isn't officially over until you've had some lobster in your belly. And since the 14th Annual Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival is taking place in San Pedro Friday through Sunday, you have the perfect opportunity to end the season in finger-licking fashion. Of course we wouldn't be writing about it if it didn't offer a full plate of music as well. This year, the festival netted the Dum Dum Girls, Saint Motel, The Blasters and over a dozen other acts to play along the historic San Pedro waterfront in Ports O' Call Village.

Friday's night headliners, Saint Motel, are a band that people need to check out. Having just released their first full-length, Voyeur, this summer, the indie pop has cemented itself as a magnetic live act. Their eventful shows feature eclectic videos in the background and their infectious energy will win over even the most cynical listener. This is a great chance to catch these guys before they graduate to hotel-sized status.

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Jay Blakesberg

Jane's Addiction

Doheny Days--Day One
Doheny State Beach
September 8, 2012

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*Jane's Addiction and the Flaming Lips to Headline Doheny Days

There's a bittersweet taste that accompanies the end of festival season. For the avid, flip flop-wearing, face painted summer ticket buyer, it means that your mission to conquer all of SoCal's thermometer-bursting bacchanals is finally over. But in the case of Doheny Days, the festival gods truly decided to save the best for last. Back for the second year after a six-year hiatus, this beach-side soiree managed to pack major marquee headliners into a mid-sized atmosphere free from a lot of typical clusterfuck that accompanies any show involving multiple days and more than a dozen bands. Wandering between three stages populated by howling beach folk in breezy outfits and all pedigrees of graphic t-shirts and sunglasses, each show represented its own slice of appeal that, despite a few minor hazards and gaffes here and there, made for a solid celebration of summer's last gasp. Here's a list of sights and sounds from the first day.

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Milo Greene

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*Local Record Review: Milo Greene, 'Milo Greene'
*Heretic to Film Live DVD in Santa Ana This Weekend

Even after two years together and Lord knows how many interviews about the same tired topic, the members of Milo Greene still get asked about the phantom booking agent that inspired their band name. For the last time, there's nobody named Milo Greene in the goddamn band. Recently, one radio station went so far as to actually dig up a caller by the name of Milo Greene to talk to the band during an interview. Aside from being a hilarious surprise segment, member Robbie Arnett says it was remarkable how little the man and the band had in common.

"He went off about how he only listens to bluegrass and country and pretty much hates listening to everything else," says Arnett. "He turned out to be a real character so it was fun."

These days, the band--who is appearing this weekend at Doheny Days--have learned a thing or two about characters. Having finished their first-ever feature film, Moddison--a shimmering slice of cinematic narrative to accompany their long-awaited eponymous album--the band members learned how to make a film from the ground up with little-to-no experience other than countless hours watching movies in their tour van.

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J. Michelle Martin Coyne

Now we know who the real star in the band is

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Burning Man

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Burning Man is an annual event and temporary community based on radical self-expression and self-reliance in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Having conquered every other major music and arts festival in the US from Ultra Music Festival, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to Electric Daisy Carnival it seemed only natural that I was ready to embark on the journey to take on the 26th Annual Burning Man pilgrimage. On top of being a community of over 60,000 music and art aficionados it is a spiritual refuge where burners gather to reflect on their lives and mourn the loss of loved ones or other obstacles with the burning of the man (a giant wooden effigy in the shape of a man) and then the temple so beautiful it rivals many churches.

Burning Man takes place on a dry lake bed, a vast flat expanse of alkali salt called the playa. Two girl friends and I made the nine-hour drive to meet our three guy friends who drove an RV all the way down from Vancouver and another close girl friend who flew into Reno, Nevada. All sharing journeys of overheated cars and electrical problems on planes, I wish someone would have told us the journey to the playa would take an entire day. But we were finally together, brought some bad-ass army and Indian tribe outfits and stocked way too much vodka and beer with not enough tequila and Four Lokos. Living on an RV in Black Rock City made us the closest hippie family and taught us plenty of valuable life-changing lessons.

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Fuck Yeah!

Meranda Carter

FYF Fest
Los Angeles Historic State Park
September 2, 2012
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Yes, give us a little dance Octomom before Eric Andre (right) scares the shit out of you!

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*FYF Fest 2012: A Complex Punk Portrait of the SoCal Music Scene
*FYF Fest 2012: Five Reunited Bands We Really Want to See

For at least a few seconds on Saturday, FYF Fest changed its letters to WTF thanks to an appearance from OC's favorite media whore, Nadya Suleman, aka Octomom. But her attempt to come on stage during comedian Eric Andre's time slot at the Broadway St. Stage to promote her new album "Sexy Party" probably didn't work out quite the way she'd planned. Andre, who has his own show on Adult Swim, is a notorious prankster with a pension for smashing shit and performing random, disturbing gags on celebrities. Sure, we know Suleman will do just about anything for publicity (porn included), but making herself an intentional target of Andre's wrath seemed like a surprisingly stupid move, even for her.

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