Chad Deal
Chad Deal has been a regular Reader contributor since early 2010. He authors Crasher and Here's the Deal, in addition to contributing to Cover Stories, Blurt installments, and the Reader's Jam Session blog.
Latest Blog Entries
Circle Circle dot dot Plays Love Roulette to Deconstruct a Drag Queen
Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012
On Saturday, February 11, local community-based theatre group ...
Food Truck Fundraiser for Alice Birney Elementary School
Friday, Feb. 3, 2012
The New Vision Christian Church in University Heights ...
Third Monthly Liquid Blue Occu-party at Soda Bar
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012
“We believe in the Occupy movement and others ...
Kill Quanti's DJ Pound / eLan 10" Split Vinyl Release
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012
Local instrumental hip hop and experimental beat label ...
City Council Unanimously in Favor of Urban Agriculture Amendments
Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012
Today was a landmark for urban agriculturalists as ...
Sam Lopez Keeps San Diego Strange
Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012
Having just curated the third annual San Diego ...
Get Faded, Go Shopping — Village Hat Shop Warehouse Clearance
Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
Pretty much anybody who’s had more than two ...
Liquid Geometry's Save the State Parks Benefit
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012
“We grew up in East County, so we ...
Taco Tuesdays at Bravo's in Ocean Beach
Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012
In a city where burritos and Tecate are ...
Occupy San Diego Voices Complaints Against SDPD
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012
Members of Occupy San Diego will be attending ...
Groovetube - 3rd Annual San Diego Experimental Guitar Show
Monday, Jan. 23, 2012
Sonny Romeri of local beat soundscape outfit Illuminauts ...
Glitch Slap Lays Smack Down with Sugarpill and jOBOT
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012
Saying that Burning Man will change your life ...
Things for Doing: Kaminanda, gEars, Lucent Dossier
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012
It’s the third Thursday and you know what ...
Burning of Rome Toast to New Album
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
Hyperactive Oceanside rockers Burning of Rome have an ...
Basshenge Brings World Wonder to Burning Man
Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012
Burning Man is all about building rad things ...
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Rose Wine Pub
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012
Rose Wine Pub in South Park caught my attention when it opened about 16 months ago. It was a holiday walkabout night and the cozy bar, which seats about 30, ...
Certain Girl Situations
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012
“I think Hemingway and maybe Bukowski are the only writers who I’ve read all of their books,” says keyboard crooner Sean Davenport, whose new Hills Like Elephants (the name is ...
I Had to Leave Daygo to Get Respect from Daygo
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
Sumach Ecks, aka Gonjasufi, went from under-the-radar beat producer and rapper to a dreadlock-shrouded icon with the 2010 Warp Records A Sufi and a Killer, a collection of psychedelic hip-hop ...
Major Label Machine
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
Kansas City native Jason “Captain Blackie” Blackmore has been playing guitar and singing in San Diego for over 11 years now, but before the Turf Club doorman began blowing the ...
Inner Vibration
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
in November, musicians/promoters Michael Mannino and Arian Banki threw a party called Inner Vibration at a private residence near Vista in celebration of a close friend who passed away in ...
Sonic Extravaganza at the San Diego Experimental Guitar Show
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
“A few years ago, there was talk in certain music publications about the death of the guitar,” says Sam Lopez, curator of the San Diego Experimental Guitar Show. “Notions were ...
Tobacco Rhoda’s
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012
The term “dive bar” is thrown around pretty loosely these days and, not unlike “dude,” “epic,” and “excessive force,” the essential meaning has been all but lost. Enter Tobacco Rhoda’s. ...
Now You Know: Clockart
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012
“The San Diego scene for our sound is all right,” says Beejay Buduan, guitarist and songwriter in Clockart, over coffee at Twiggs on Park Boulevard. “It’s more of a rock ...
Future Sounds of San Diego
Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012
“Living in San Diego, you hear that there is no scene here, that there is nothing going on,” says musician and freelance graphic designer Miguel “Miguex” Vega, who recently compiled ...
"I Promise" Benefit Show
Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012
“San Diego is such a volatile music scene,” says Jesse Kranzler, an organizer of the three-day “I Promise” Che Café benefit show. “One venue or group of bands usually keeps ...
