NOTES : Walter Trout Band’s Import CDs Are Now Available

The Walter Trout Band’s hard-to-find, and generally excellent, European CDs now are available in the U.S. via mail order. The import titles by O.C.’s hottest blues-rocker are “Life in the Jungle,” “Prisoner of a Dream” (still Trout’s best), “Transition,” the live “No More Fish Jokes” and the solid current release, “Breaking the Rules.”

For information on prices and how to order, write to Yakkabiz Music, P.O. Box 108, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 or fax (714) 960-6482.

Trout commands his biggest audiences in Europe. But he’ll be ringing out the year on his home turf with shows Friday and Saturday at the Rockfield Tavern in Lake Forest and Dec. 29 and 30 at Perq’s in Huntington Beach.

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Early-Morning Rain: The promising Orange County pop-rock band Psychic Rain will happily hazard an ungodly hour for live rocking Friday when it plays on the “KLOS Mark and Brian Christmas Show.” The program airs live from the Hollywood Palladium--from 6 to 10 a.m.

Singer Greg Stoddard reports that the KLOS morning team took a liking to Psychic Rain after hearing the band play at a station-sponsored pre-Thanksgiving parade in Orange. “We just totally lucked out,” Stoddard says. “Mark and Brian talked about us every day” after the parade appearance, and extended an on-air invitation to play on the Palladium show, which also features Kiss, Matthew Sweet, Peter Frampton and the Gap Band, among others.

Tickets are available only through KLOS (95.5 FM). Night owls can enjoy Psychic Rain’s punchy, harmony-embellished rock when the band opens for X on Dec. 29 at the Galaxy Concert Theatre in Santa Ana.

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X-Members Go to the Movies: X-Members, the O.C. punk band fronted by Mike “Gabby” Gaborno of Cadillac Tramps and Manic Hispanic fame, will have a cut on the soundtrack album to the Pauly Shore-Stephen Baldwin comedy “Bio-Dome.” The band will contribute “End of the World” to the album, which is due Jan. 9. X-Members’ debut for Priority Records is expected in the spring.