In the early 1980s, at the peak of the punk rock scene in Fullerton, the interest and demand for punk in Orange County reached a boiling point during one particular TSOL show at Fullerton College. The ...

Steve Cabler was living it up in Bali: surfing all day and partying all night. He’d traveled from his home in Newport Beach on a surf trip to Indonesia with his best friend, Steve Webster. The two ...

Southern California has several sublime sound-celebrating spaces, the galleries and creative spots that invite visitors to try out instruments, dream up new songs, and learn about music in all of its ...

A wall covered in black and white fliers, the kind easily photocopied, lined the walls of the entrance to the Fullerton Museum Center’s latest exhibit, “Punk OC: From the Streets of Suburbia.” ...

The first time that guitarist Frank Agnew went to a punk show he was about 13, and even though he was underage he was able to get into the Whisky a Go Go to see the Bags, Black Randy and the ...

Few venues epitomized the passion of live music like small, scrappy all-ages venue Chain Reaction. With an interior covered with band stickers and T-shirts and a cramped, enclosed alley with walls ...

In many cities, regions and nations, there are cultural figures and entities that are so deeply embedded and revered in the local history that the place and the thing can't be separated. In Orange ...

It could be a figment of my imagination, but in the Rolodex of my mind I swear I remember my friend Jamie setting a pivotal intention during a drunken conversation, most likely over beers at a punk ...

OC surfer and punk vocalist Steve "Crabby" Cabler, who barely survived the 2002 Bali bombing that claimed the lives of more than 200 people, photographed at his home in Costa Mesa. (Allen J. Schaben / ...