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Crisco Disco
Published March 3, 2010
Thursday 4Breathy British band the Clientele is touring the world behind late-last-year’s crit hit Bonfire on the Heath, their most pop-defined collection yet. Bonfire steps out of the fuzz, into cleaner, chiming tones. Though front chap ...
Goose Your Bum-Bum
Published Feb. 24, 2010
Thursday 25Down with Liberty, Up with Chains. D.C. artiste and internet talk-show host Ian Svenonius’s Chain and the Gang will do time at Casbah tonight. Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses) is an interesting cat, and this is ...
Whole Lotta Aping Going On
Published Feb. 17, 2010
Thursday 18English goth-rockers the Damned will finish up their two-night stint at Casbah. Sold out, it is.... So go check out Motörhead Lemmy’s new joint the Head Cat at Belly Up. They’re a rockabilly super-trio, featuring ...
Happy Bloody Valentine's Day
Published Feb. 10, 2010
Thursday 11Kick out the jams, brothers and sisters, when Santa Cruz instrumental act Sound Tribe Sector 9 delivers “post-rock dance music” to House of Blues. ... More Post a comment
Sonic Assault
Published Feb. 3, 2010
Thursday 4The Brooklyn-band hype machine needed something different, a new sound and language to distract from the steady stream of ornate art-pop acts — the ... More Post a comment
Technicolor Pogo Punk
Published Jan. 27, 2010
Thursday 28He’s got Grammys, he’s got Emmys, he’s got a velvet croon and a watch-out-for-your-girlfriend grin. This renaissance man-about-town is Harry Connick Jr., and he’s ... More Post a comment
Big Hair and Big Hearts
Published Jan. 20, 2010
Thursday 21Sezio, a local not-for-profit artist’s collective, provides a platform for San Diego artists and musicians. They’ll be hosting a benefit for that cause at ... More Post a comment
Hockey Night
Published Jan. 13, 2010
Thursday 14Chicago bluesman David “Honeyboy” Edwards takes the stage at AcousticMusicSanDiego (4650 Mansfield Street, Normal Heights) tonight. The 94-year-old guitarist, a contemporary and consort of ... More Post a comment
Hoot, Howl
Published Jan. 6, 2010
Thursday 7Few (if any) “alt-rock” bands over the past three decades have held their mettle like NYC art-punk perennials Sonic Youth. Some expert wrote that ... More Post a comment
Lovers Are Lunatics
Published Dec. 16, 2009
Thursday 17You say night-zer, I say nit-zer... Industrial dance band Nitzer Ebb flows into Brick by Brick tonight. The trio has experienced resurgent interest in ... More Comment (1)
Schism on the Dial
Published Dec. 9, 2009
Thursday 10L.A. darkwave dance band the Moving Units drop their load at Casbah tonight. Fronted by Blake Miller as Ian Curtis, the quartet stumble into ... More Post a comment
Bed-Sit Sing-Alongs
Published Dec. 2, 2009
Thursday 3SanFran psych-pop band the Fresh & Onlys will bring the ampersand to Bar Pink tonight. The Onlys spill Nuggets-era vocals — complete with haunting ... More Post a comment
The Enormity of Sound
Published Nov. 18, 2009
Thursday 19SanFran alt-folk band Thao with the Get Down Stay Down get down to Casbah tonight. Singer-guitarist Thao Nguyen is a Lilith Fair survivor, deprogrammed ... More Post a comment
All I Wanted Was a Pepsi...
Published Nov. 11, 2009
Thursday 12For 94/9’s Belly Up booking tonight, it’ll be about the fuzz-pop music. From the Dum Dum Girls distorto doo-wop and the Crocodiles warm and ... More Post a comment
Perpendicular Expression of Your Horizontal Desires
Published Nov. 4, 2009
Thursday 5Bloodflowers (Floras sanguis) pop up at Bar Pink with L.A. fixtures Nico Vega, who are out to tout their s/t debut. The bassless trio’s ... More Post a comment
Heavy Vampire Sounds
Published Oct. 28, 2009
Thursday 29Chi-town sludge-rock quartet Pelican alights at Casbah tonight. The instrumental act aims for your eardrums on their fourth for Southern Lord Records, What We ... More Post a comment
Formed a Band
Published Oct. 21, 2009
Thursday 22Yoni Wolf’s 2005 indie-critic hit Elephant Eyelash is probably the oddest piece in my desert-island crate. Though follow-up Alopecia earns a space in the ... More Post a comment
Feedbackers
Published Oct. 14, 2009
Thursday 15Noise-pop anyone? There’s a real ear-plugger at Casbah tonight with A Place to Bury Strangers, Darker My Love, and All the Saints. Brooklyn feedback ... More Post a comment
Spam Hands
Published Oct. 7, 2009
Thursday 8“Solo cholo” Kid Congo will have his Pink Monkey Birds at, appropriately enough, Bar Pink tonight. Kid Congo Powers is the stage name of ... More Post a comment
Happy Birthday, SRV
Published Sept. 30, 2009
Thursday 1After checking into The Rose Hotel, Robert Earl Keen’s brand-new batch of country-fried folk, you can check out the Texas troubadour hisself, as he ... More Post a comment
Airing of Grievances
Published Sept. 23, 2009
Thursday 24“We do hardcore right.” That throwback punk-rock supergroup you’ve been hearing about, Rats Eyes (ex-Locust, -Sirhan, -Combover, and -Bloodflowers), rocks Bar Pink with proggy ... More Post a comment
A Bucket of Southern-Fried Psych Rock
Published Sept. 16, 2009
Thursday 17Belly Up brings a bucket of Southern-fried psych rock to the club tonight with Phoenix family band the Meat Puppets, Athens, GA’s Dead Confederate, ... More Post a comment
Hot Numbers
Published Sept. 9, 2009
Thursday 10Bay Area bad boy Too $hort rolls up on Canes tonight. The 43-year-old rapper has had a comeback with early hits “The Ghetto” and ... More Comment (1)
My Bloody Mary Chain
Published Sept. 2, 2009
Thursday 3Soda Bar draws a draught of fuzz pop in a variety of flavors for one of the better bills this week, indie geek. Check ... More Post a comment
Pass the Funyuns
Published Aug. 19, 2009
Thursday 20Atlanta-born, -bred, -based artist Cody Chesnutt is a singer’s singer. Ranging from soul to rock with frequent stops in funk and hip-hop, The Headphone ... More Post a comment
Traveling Pants
Published Aug. 12, 2009
Thursday 13The doctor makes a house call to Belly Up, as New Orleans’ Creole king of boogie-woogie stomps and blues-rock romps Dr. John joins Bible ... More Post a comment
It's a Music Thing
Published Aug. 5, 2009
Thursday 6The double-X chromosomes are out to rock you tonight, as Casbah hosts Maren Parusel’s anticipated debut seven-inch from Single Screen Records. Since departing Wild ... More Post a comment
What Am I, Your Mother?
Published July 29, 2009
Thursday 30Japandroids may not have an image yet, but they’ve one helluva garage-pop debut in Post-Nothing. The Vancouver duo have had a stutter-step start to ... More Comment (1)
Who Let the Dogs Out?
Published July 22, 2009
Thursday 23Punk perennials X mark the spot at Belly Up tonight. J.D. and Exene have spread it ‘round in their storied 30-year career, going solo ... More Post a comment
Anti-Nowhere
Published July 1, 2009
Thursday 2Reggae’s dancehall duke Junior Reid makes his home nearest the genre’s roots in Kingston, Jamaica. Recording and touring since he was 15 years old, ... More Comment (1)
Time of the Season
Published June 24, 2009
Thursday 25Local punk-rock heroes the Zeros reunite tonight at Bar Pink in North Park. Chula Vista High grads Javier Escovedo and Robert Lopez (aka El ... More Post a comment
Golden Shower of Hits
Published June 17, 2009
Thursday 18There will be a Golden Shower of Hits when Hermosa Beach hardcores the Circle Jerks hit the pit at House of Blues tonight. The ... More Post a comment
Clean Out the Garage
Published June 10, 2009
Thursday 11Disco erasers. Jay Reatard, Thee Oh Sees, and Earthmen and Strangers are gonna clean out the garage at Casbah tonight. Mr. Reatard hails from ... More Post a comment
Oh, Evan
Published June 3, 2009
Thursday 4Brick by Brick books the 30-year-strong “smart-metal” band Kings X. The Louisiana-based trio is on the Inside/Out label and touring behind their 12th proper, ... More Post a comment
The Kids Love It!
Published May 27, 2009
Thursday 28Looks like a Spice Girl fell off the rack. Brit rap brat Lady Sovereign will grace House of Blues tonight. The 23-year-old grime star, ... More Post a comment
Follow the Bouncing Ball
Published May 20, 2009
Thursday 21Remix guru Anthony Gonzalez will bring his electronic-rock road show M83 to Belly Up. Formed in France in 2001, M83 was originally a duo ... More Post a comment
The Great Unsung
Published May 13, 2009
Thursday 14Doves alight tonight at House of Blues. The Manchester trio trade in anthemic pop like Coldplay and Oasis, but without the Grammys, Mercurys, or ... More Post a comment
Earplugs Are Known to Inhibit Headbanging
Published May 6, 2009
Thursday 7The Devil Makes Three is a drummer-less trio from Santa Cruz that beats punk’d acoustic blues out of two guits and a stand-up bass. ... More Post a comment
Busy for Gigs
Published April 29, 2009
Thursday 30Anaheim roots-rock revivalists Dusty Rhodes and the River Band flow into town tonight. The sextet is due to drop Place and Stage, the follow-up ... More Comment (1)
Underground Freak Out
Published April 22, 2009
Thursday 23Belly Up will be serving “electric” Hot Tuna tonight. Mmm. Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen formed Tuna in 1969, during their tenure with San ... More Post a comment
Flower Punk
Published April 15, 2009
Thursday 16The Atlanta-based quartet Black Lips bring their 200 Million Thousand tour to town tonight. The new Vice disc may not match Good, Bad, Not ... More Post a comment
Dhani, Like Danny, Like Daddy
Published April 8, 2009
Thursday 9One-man band Andy Cabic will bring the touring ensemble of Vetiver to town tonight. The SanFran psych-folk band is best known for past associations ... More Comment (1)
Swank Ooze
Published April 1, 2009
Thursday 2Calico Horse rides tonight when Belly Up brews a benefit for the Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA up there in Enci. From the dregs of ... More Post a comment
Generation X-Lax
Published March 25, 2009
Thursday 26Post-rock stonies Pelican alight at Casbah tonight with sonically similar Wolves in the Throne Room (Olympia) and the Tombs (Brooklyn). Pelican is an L.A.-based ... More Post a comment
After Austin
Published March 18, 2009
Thursday 19SanFran’s trad-jazz piano man George Duke appears at Anthology tonight. Duke may have strayed from the hard-bop path when he pioneered synth sounds for ... More Post a comment
Get Your Dance Duds Out
Published March 11, 2009
Thursday 12The Portland psych-pop quartet Minmae will deliver Sean Brooks’s latest acoustic-meets-electronica (acoustronica?) collection Tertiary Allotment Is a Delightfulness. Since disbanding Thee Psychic Hearts a ... More Post a comment
The Devil's Music
Published March 4, 2009
Thursday 5“Kill them all or they will kill you first,” suggests electroacoustic act Intricate Machines, which’ll plug in at Bar Pink tonight. This Amoeba-recommended quintet ... More Post a comment
Show Them You're Nuts
Published Feb. 25, 2009
Thursday 26Dance-beats duo N.A.S.A. launch at Casbah. Dudes’re Sam Spiegel (Spike Jonze’s brother) and Zé Gonzales (a pro skater), and, man, did they get Pitch-slapped ... More Post a comment
Pop Overthrow Intl.
Published Feb. 18, 2009
Thursday 19Jayceon “the Game” Taylor brings his play to Crib of Blues tonight. The Compton kid has racked three CDs in his six-year career — ... More Post a comment
Rock Her Heart, Paint Her Toes
Published Feb. 11, 2009
Thursday 12Drummer Damon “the Octopus” Che and his Chicago-based instrumental trio Don Caballero are back together and bringing their time-bending jazz-punk dynamic to Casbah tonight. ... More Post a comment
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