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Bratty comes to Songbyrd, women rockers put a queer spin on Americana, Soomin Ham, a new play at the KenCen, and California Soul.

Goth Prom, Oh He Dead, Disco Biblioteca, (cult) classic films, comedy, art, and DJ nights round out Dec. 21 through New Year's Eve.

Newport Beach News By Simone Goldstone | Soundcheck Columnist If the surf music from the 1960s had one defining sound, it would be the opening drum roll and familiar guitar melody from the Surfaris’ 1962 hit song “Wipe Out.” Known as the most important instrumental song of the decade and featured in films such as Dirty Dancing, “Wipe Out” was written and recorded on the spot in a little recording studio in Cucamonga by a group of high school students who had formed a ba...

Newport Beach News By Simone Goldstone | NB Indy Soundcheck Columnist Performances by the Go-Go’s and Cherie Currie? A look at Gibson Guitar’s Coachella house complete with a guitar-shaped pool? Exclusive interviews with Jackson Browne, Mel Brooks, and Peter Frampton? It could only mean one thing: The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) and their virtual take on the traditional convention (held in Anaheim every January) with their Believe in Music Week. This free Believe in Music...

Newport Beach News By Simone Goldstone | Soundcheck Columnist “Windy nights, balconies at sunset, and tower bells blazing all year round,” are the sights and sounds that Newport Beach resident Leslie Ledezma evokes with her idiosyncratic music and poetry. Unique and inimitable, Leslie’s inventive dreamscape songs and poetry books are contemporary classics inspired by the best writers of literature and icons of old. At age 24, Leslie already has two poetry books out on Amazon: â�...