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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Volume 2: The Dgenius

In my last blog, which is to say my first blog, I yammered on about synchronous TV, when the sports ...

This week in the San Diego clubs, June 20–26

Thursday 20Til-Two will be Mosh Pit Central Thursday night, as East Coast hardcore forefathers Reagan Youth headline sets by Dust Angel, Blood Stained Reality, Nerve Control, Vindictive, and D.E.A. Reagan Youth attended the same schools ...

This week in the San Diego clubs, June 13–19

Thursday 13Portland pop-punk trio the Thermals will heat up Casbah with their sound-bit brand of socio-politiking. Hutch Harris still has one of the coolest names in rock, even if his band has succumbed to numbed ...

Volume 1: Satellite of love

I love sports. Watching them, mostly (Padres, Giants, Red Sox, Galaxy, Xolos, Chivas, Sounders, U.S. men’s soccer, MLS, EPL, Serie ...

This week in the San Diego clubs, June 6–12

Thursday 6A leggy lovely in a sequined cocktail dress with a Flying Vee around her neck...uh, if that’s not enough to get you off the couch, brah, check out the chops. Grace Potter & the ...

This week in the San Diego clubs, May 30–June 5

Thursday 30With Vacation, bedsit recorder Matt Adams announces the arrival of his fully realized Blank Tapes, the L.A.-via-Bay Area psych-pop band that has dipped K-Tel deep into ’70s summer fun. It’s a guilt-free bubble-gum-rock collection ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...