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We've just rolled out a new and improved calendar of Orange County concerts.

Our online music listings are now sortable by artist, venue and price. We've also got a raw, unadulterated, alphabetical list of upcoming shows in the drop-down menus on the righthand side of that page.

And now you can even buy concert tickets directly from our website, with more options on the way.

Take a look. Bang around a little. We're still tweaking, so let us know what you think in the comments below.

​From the man who brought us "Rifles Burs" and "Snacks" comes a new song/video called "Imdabes." It's already blowing up Youtube, so I'm going to go head and call it now: It's an instant classic, the kind you don't take home to mother.

On the track, Gillionaire tells listeners that he "be the one that win Street Fighter tournaments," "got the highest score in the world on my SAT" and that he's in the best at "watching all them '90s videos -- Power Rangers, All That, Kenan & Kel."
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​We celebrate the dorkiest of dorky music fans by dubbing today as Rush Day, All Day: It is, after all, 2-1-12.
Both the album and the song, released in 1976, is actually about the year 2112. For many, the fact that 2112 is considered the definitive Rush album is reason enough to celebrate it. After the jump, everything you ever needed to know about the song--from gear to inspiration to art work.
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​Because I can't count the number of times I've wanted to hear "Rich Girl" and a music player was nowhere in sight, the Hall and Oates hotline (aka "Callin' Oates") is a lifesaver.  All you have to do is call and you get a choice of four (!) Hall and Oates classics to listen to in its entirety: "One on One"; "Rich Girl"; "Private Eye" and "Maneater." Try it for yourself; a demo of what happens after the jump.
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​Thom Yorke has confirmed on BBC 1 that Radiohead will be touring in 2012. Speaking to BBC Radio 1's Giles Peterson, Yorke said: "The idea is to go out and play next year on and off during the year."

The band announced two shows in New York yesterday, and have only played one live show, to support their album The King Of Limbs.
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Laila Derakhshanian

​We listen to a lot of music here at Heard Mentality. Sometimes, that music is accompanied by art that you can actually observe for hours. And sometimes, that art is not so desirable, or aesthetically pleasing (ahem, Prince--even if you did "produce, arrange, compose, and perform" all your songs). So we decided to improve these album covers by photoshopping the cutest things in the world on them. Enjoy! More >>

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Drag queen Manila Luzon

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Lip syncing has always been, in the minds of common folk, one of those faux pas we only see when a member of the Real Housewives collective tries their hand at so-called "singing." (Believe it or not, those microphones in hand are as dead as a clueless possum trying to cross the 405 freeway against the flow of traffic.)

But in the world of gays and their fruitflies (think "girls who like boys who like boys"), lip syncing is a treasured pastime. Every week all across metropolitan America, thousands of people flock to gay centralias and check-in to clubs and bars for Drag Night. From New York City to San Francisco, from Chicago to Austin, Drag Nights have become inclusive events where lip syncing talent showcase their best renditions and gays of all circles and cliques come to D.M.L. (drink, mingle, and laugh)

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​Recently, Robert Plant has been as active with his solo/Band of Joy work as at any time in his 40-plus-year career. Band of Joy, his Grammy-nominated current project, are hitting the Midwest and Western parts of the U.S. for a number of tour dates beginning in April. They're scheduled mostly for large venues, including a performance April 23 at the Greek Theatre in LA.More >>

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