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What's going on this weekend? High energy shows no matter where you look. From Girl Talk to the New Fidelity, we have a short list for every genre you want to jump up and down in.

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​What's happening this weekend? If you're not heading over to the Exene show in Fullerton (and why not? It's $2!), we have a slew of other options for you after the jump.

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​Just in case you don't have plans yet this weekend, we've chosen the best of what's around for your perusal, with tidbits of Eddie Spaghetti, OC Music Awards, Autolux (pictured above), the Scion Fest and more.

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Brian Kasnyik

Agents have diplomatic immunity?

​Friday kicks off the weekend with Agent Orange ripping into things at Friar Tuck's Bar and Grille in Pomona. It may seem odd to have a now-veteran act be our Locals Only focus this week, but Mike Palm has always been about the area he grew up and started his band in. Their earliest efforts will always be the ones people remember, mostly thanks to "Bloodstains" getting extensive KROQ airplay, but they have kept the flag flying ever since. The band returned to action a bit thanks to last year's Halloween single, and Palm and Co. still kick out the surf-punk jams live.
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​Friday kicks off a busy weekend, first with Devils Brigade playing Alex's Bar in Long Beach with Roger Miret and the Disasters and Viva Hate. Devils Brigade just released their debut album, but it's been 10 years in the making--as Rancid fans well know. The group is a long-running side project of that band's Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong, with DJ Bonebrake on drums. They're one of our featured artists in the music section this week, and no doubt Freeman is as fiery a fellow on the page as he is onstage.
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​Friday finds DJ Ron Sleezy holding court at the Commonwealth Lounge and Grill in Newport Beach--which is an understandable thing, given that he works there. Even more understandable is that he's out to help continue what has been a thriving--and not always appreciated--continuum of DJs and venues throughout OC. Besides, if you want to go listen to David Guetta repeat himself over and over again, there are plenty of venues happy to accommodate you. DJ Bobby Soul will also be spinning.
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​The weekend starts Friday, with the Get Up Kids swinging through Pomona's Glass House. One of our featured artists in this week's music section, the quintet's members have long since passed any form of being kids in favor of having their own. Yet the band's ups, downs and all-arounds, combined with a small but heavily worshiped discography, have cemented them as pop-punk lodestones for scores of bands, even if co-lead singer Jim Suptic once apologized for all the bad examples they inadvertently inspired.
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RX Bandits

​On Saturday, Ty Segall plays Alex's Bar in Long Beach, headlining a bill featuring Tijuana Panthers and Okee Dokee. His hyperactive role in a slew of bands had already won him local fame, but the release of Melted seems to have woken up the rest of the musical world to what's been going on with him. The record finds Segall melding garage inspirations and rough noise hooks with the same kind of "try anything and everything once" aplomb that fellow travelers such as Jay Reatard loved to do. His newest solo album is called Live in Aisle Five, and that sounds about right.More »

James Abajian

Wildboys

​​On Friday night, this week's Locals Only stars, Wildboys, play the Static club night at the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa--and they might just take over the place forever and declare it their own kingdom. Members Bronson and Stallone know well the trash culture of previous decades, and today, and they embrace it to the full with the belief that partying, beats and general hilarity are always in style. To quote a recent exchange in Sack magazine: "Q: How much do you value your mustache? A: How much do Christians love their church?"More »

Michael Minichiello

The Wonder Years

​On Friday, the Wonder Years play at Chain Reaction in Anaheim--and yes, we feel your eyes rolling a bit at the name. We still haven't quite gotten over Crystal Castles and Final Fantasy ourselves, to name just two. But the Philadelphia-based band, who look more like camp counselors than glue sniffers, make up for the name with their sweetly aggro punk rock that is by now its own eternal genre into itself (no matter what name they now give it). They don't still say "emo," do they? This Time Next Year and Tonight Alive round out the bill; check out the feature story on the group in this week's issue for more.More »