Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs

Communist Daughter

Communist Daughter’s “Not the Kid” rumbles along on a rolling rhythm. There is a part of the song in which singer-songwriter Johnny Solomon breathes loudly, like he’s running to get away from the rest of the band. When someone shows Solomon a picture of himself as a child, he denies it: “I’m not the kid you knew, I’m not the kid you remember,” he sings. But it’s not so easy to escape who you were.

That’s Solomon’s story. Once the leader of a promising Minneapolis band called Friends Like These, he saw his future fall apart as the result of his drug problems and mental-health issues. He moved to a small town in western Wisconsin to get away from music and get clean. With the help of new fiancée Molly Moore, he got healthy, but, happily, he was not as successful in giving up music. As the success of Bon Iver has shown, western Wisconsin has turned into an unlikely hub of pastoral indie rock. Soon, Solomon and Moore had a new band, Communist Daughter, named after a Neutral Milk Hotel song. The band’s 2010 debut, Soundtrack to the End, won raves for its earthy textures, relaxed arrangements, and edgy lyrics.

Sponsored
Sponsored

The new Lions & Lambs EP is more polished, and Solomon sounds happier and healthier. Still, he’s singing things like “I’m 31 or I’m 17/ I’m almost dead, but I’m almost clean.” The song “Ghosts” pairs Solomon and Moore’s voices in a creepy harmony against an ominous bass and drums that sound like a storm gathering strength. You can clean up your act, but you can’t escape who you are.

COMMUNIST DAUGHTER: Soda Bar, Saturday, September 29, 8 p.m. 619-255-7224. $7.

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Looking back at race relations in Coronado

A former football player recalls the good and the bad
Next Article

Pet pig perches in pocket

Escondido doula gets a taste of celebrity

Communist Daughter’s “Not the Kid” rumbles along on a rolling rhythm. There is a part of the song in which singer-songwriter Johnny Solomon breathes loudly, like he’s running to get away from the rest of the band. When someone shows Solomon a picture of himself as a child, he denies it: “I’m not the kid you knew, I’m not the kid you remember,” he sings. But it’s not so easy to escape who you were.

That’s Solomon’s story. Once the leader of a promising Minneapolis band called Friends Like These, he saw his future fall apart as the result of his drug problems and mental-health issues. He moved to a small town in western Wisconsin to get away from music and get clean. With the help of new fiancée Molly Moore, he got healthy, but, happily, he was not as successful in giving up music. As the success of Bon Iver has shown, western Wisconsin has turned into an unlikely hub of pastoral indie rock. Soon, Solomon and Moore had a new band, Communist Daughter, named after a Neutral Milk Hotel song. The band’s 2010 debut, Soundtrack to the End, won raves for its earthy textures, relaxed arrangements, and edgy lyrics.

Sponsored
Sponsored

The new Lions & Lambs EP is more polished, and Solomon sounds happier and healthier. Still, he’s singing things like “I’m 31 or I’m 17/ I’m almost dead, but I’m almost clean.” The song “Ghosts” pairs Solomon and Moore’s voices in a creepy harmony against an ominous bass and drums that sound like a storm gathering strength. You can clean up your act, but you can’t escape who you are.

COMMUNIST DAUGHTER: Soda Bar, Saturday, September 29, 8 p.m. 619-255-7224. $7.

Comments
Sponsored
Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Celebrate Holi, Borrego Springs Music Festival

Events March 23-March 27, 2024
Next Article

Pacific Beach – car thief's paradise

Take photos of your automobile and license plate
Comments
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed Big Screen — Movie commentary Blurt — Music's inside track Booze News — San Diego spirits Classical Music — Immortal beauty Classifieds — Free and easy Cover Stories — Front-page features Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts Feast! — Food & drink reviews Feature Stories — Local news & stories Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore From the Archives — Spotlight on the past Golden Dreams — Talk of the town The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it Letters — Our inbox Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news News Ticker — News & politics Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated Poetry — The old and the new Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers Reading — The hunt for intellectuals Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds SD on the QT — Almost factual news Sheep and Goats — Places of worship Special Issues — The best of Street Style — San Diego streets have style Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves Theater — On stage in San Diego this week Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads Your Week — Daily event picks
4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs
Close

Anchor ads are not supported on this page.