Barnaby Monk

Barnaby Monk pens the weekly column Club Crawler, the go-to guide for live music in the greater San Diego area.

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Beach Goths

Thursday 24So, Black Key Dan Auerbach produced the next Growlers record, which is supposed to come out soonish, after they title it and, y’know, find a label to put it out. The Costa Mesa “beach ...

Bow Before the King

Thursday 17Soda Bar delivers Baby Buffalo Thursday night. Rami and Odie have been a duo since the first grade, finding common ground in hip-hop music and playing with bees. The Buffalo babies have relocated to ...

...and they're OFF!

Thursday 10Brendan Benson and Raconteur bandmate Jack White released solo efforts on the same date last month. Though White’s Blunderbuss is an adventurous set of off-White Stripes, it lacks staying power. Benson sounds more invested ...

Barnaby Monk's Blog Entries

FM 94/9 Cancels Morning Talk Mikey Show

In a move that’s sure to please alternative-rock radio listeners — and likely activate a pissed-off “M-1 army” — FM 94/9’s senior V.P. and general manager Rick Jackson announced this morning at 8 a.m. via ...

Everyone's a Critic Top Ten List

We asked our Everyone’s a Critic contributors to compile a CD hit list for 2011, which we cross-pollinated with our own in-house faves to drop on you this wicked-scientific and original top-ten. So, without further ...

Make Up the Couch

Bar Pink'll be bringing home a couple friendly faces from San Diego's rock-roll past next week, as Jay High (GoGoGo Airheart) trades drumsticks for guitar picks with Brooklyn-based dark-pop band Xray Eyeballs on Sunday, May ...

Soapbox Available for San Diego Music Writers

Attention music writers, Exciting news from Reader HQ: we're getting ready to rock-n-roll in real time with a live stream of spontaneously updated bloggage from guess who? You! Yeah, it's your blog. If you are ...