Also, we're to blame for Boy Shakira on America's Got Talent

WHERE’S THE READER’S HIP-HOP COVERAGE? We get a lot of emails asking this, and (hopefully) readers have noticed increased coverage throughout the music section, including Blurt, Lists, Of Note, and Club Crawler. It wasn’t that we avoided hip-hop before – …

Okay, I know chances are good that my sideburns are older than a lotta people reading this blog.

CREEPY OLD GUY GOES TO A RAVE Okay, I know chances are good that my sideburns are older than a lotta people reading this blog. I’m old. How old AM I? I'm old enough to have… a) …bought Beatles records …

A history of SoCal racist rock

RACIST ROCK: DO THE WHITE THING "Throughout history, music has been used to recruit and unify ultra-right movements. A lot of people think the Third Reich couldn’t have happened without Wagner. For Skinheads, who follow the concept of leaderless resistance, …

GOTHS FOR JESUS: PASTOR DAVE’S CHRISTIAN GOTHS "The Lord said...'Stretch your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread...darkness that can be felt.'" Exodus 10:21 Old school “goth” can be traced back to the third and fourth centuries, when …

HELLO SATAN: DARK METAL IN SAN DIEGO "Some rock and roll groups stand in a circle and drink cups of blood. Some get on their knees and pray to the devil. Rock and roll hypnotizes us and controls our senses." …

UNDERAGE SWING DANCERS BATTLE LOCAL LAW The San Diego Municipal code defines a “teenage dance” as “any event open to the public that allows dancing by teenagers.” A teenager is “any person who is at least fourteen or more years …