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Takin’ It to New Orleans: Mission Bay High School’s Preservationists
Takin’ It to New Orleans: Mission Bay High School’s Preservationists

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012
“I said this was Fat Tuesday, not lazy ...


Ian Tordella Set to Release Second CD
Ian Tordella Set to Release Second CD

Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012
“I’m not sure what to call it. Electric ...


Petunia and the Vipers: the Reader Interview
Petunia and the Vipers: the Reader Interview

Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012
Petunia and the Vipers will be in town ...


John Hancock: “I just have this thing for chairs. I think they’re cool.”
John Hancock: “I just have this thing for chairs. I think they’re cool.”

Monday, Feb. 13, 2012
Scripps Ranch-based photographer John Hancock says he wanted ...


Night Sky Sound: If you look up, you might see a shooting star
Night Sky Sound: If you look up, you might see a shooting star

Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012
“I have small pieces of some of the ...


Crazy, Interesting Lives: The Honkys
Crazy, Interesting Lives: The Honkys

Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012
It’s Bret Hazzard on the phone talking about ...


CD Review Two Years After the Fact: Rock and Roll Part 3
CD Review Two Years After the Fact: Rock and Roll Part 3

Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012
Rock and Roll Part 3 the album was ...


Second Line Parade Host Drew Miller: Ten Years and Counting
Second Line Parade Host Drew Miller: Ten Years and Counting

Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012
On February 11 during the countdown to Mardi ...


Amp Fest 2012
Amp Fest 2012

Monday, Jan. 30, 2012
Earplugs would be a good idea but nobody ...


Fattburger Was a Garage Band Once
Fattburger Was a Garage Band Once

Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
My mom’s gardener found it in the trash. ...


V Child: The Clock Is Ticking
V Child: The Clock Is Ticking

Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012
Seventeen songs: by the end of this year, ...


Are You Beach Enough?
Are You Beach Enough?

Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012
It’s ej from Grizzly Records with this news: ...


Joe Walsh: Saving the World, One Monk at a Time
Joe Walsh: Saving the World, One Monk at a Time

Friday, Jan. 20, 2012
It was New Year’s Eve about 15 minutes ...


Bonnie Wright’s Microtonal Adventure
Bonnie Wright’s Microtonal Adventure

Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
Fresh Sounds concert series producer Bonnie Wright is ...


East of Sweden, Explained
East of Sweden, Explained

Monday, Jan. 16, 2012
It’s a Monday morning and ex-Syndicate drummer Jeffrey ...


Mike Wofford’s Other Life
Mike Wofford’s Other Life

Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012
The new Mike Wofford biopic opens with the ...


No More Long Winters: Sharon Hazel Township
No More Long Winters: Sharon Hazel Township

Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012
Sharon Hazel, of Sharon Hazel Township, an indie ...


Please Like the Nformals
Please Like the Nformals

Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012
“I would love for my music to be ...


You Need This: Ramones Bobbleheads!
You Need This: Ramones Bobbleheads!

Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012
Iggy Pop has his own action figure but ...


Rebirth of the Cool: The Strange Plethora of Jazz Jams in San Diego
Rebirth of the Cool: The Strange Plethora of Jazz Jams in San Diego

Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012
“The very first time I sat in, I ...

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Brad Lee: Loud and Clear
Brad Lee: Loud and Clear

Musician Interviews

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012
“You’ve caught me at a milestone in my life.” Meaning the ten-year anniversary of Loud and Clear Records? No, says label owner Brad Lee. “This is my second day in ...


Dunwells Invade Belly Up
Dunwells Invade Belly Up

Of Note

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012
The Dunwells are the latest players in the emerging West London folk scene to come to America. When they play the Belly Up, it will be for the first time. ...


It Was the Piano
It Was the Piano

Blurt

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012
In January Chuck Perrin pulled his Dizzy’s jazz series out of the San Diego Wine and Culinary Event Center in the Harbor Club Towers downtown. “I got a couple of ...


Petunia, Vipers, and Exene Cervenka
Petunia, Vipers, and Exene Cervenka

Of Note

Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012
Petunia won’t give his real name when he calls from British Columbia, where he lives, which may be a self-protective habit grown of living on the streets and having busked ...


Was 2011 the Year of the Sax?
Was 2011 the Year of the Sax?

Musician Interviews

Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012
By the end of last year, music journalists were tagging it the Year of the Sax. Why? Because Lady Gaga hired Clarence Clemons to play on “Born This Way.” But ...


Dave Good Doubts the Features
Dave Good Doubts the Features

Of Note

Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012
The Features are indie rockers from Sparta, Tennessee, an eighth-grade startup born of small-town boredom. Coming of age in a cultural backwater of less than 5000 had its limitations, and ...


Joe Walsh, Analog Man
Joe Walsh, Analog Man

Of Note

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012
If you played electric guitar in high school during the 1970s, you probably had your Steppenwolf and Bad Company and Deep Purple and Neil Young licks down, but you also ...


Rolle Love & the Beat Farmers
Rolle Love & the Beat Farmers

Musician Interviews

Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012
A haircut changed Rolle Love’s life. At 17, he was a hard-rocking bassist with a crash pad in North Park. “We furnished it with cases of beer, and we drank ...


Total Distortion
Total Distortion

Blurt

Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012
“It’s kind of a trip,” says Donald Vercelli, who plays Mike Ness in the Social D tribute band formerly known as Socially Distorted. “Apparently, Mr. Ness doesn’t like other bands ...


Big Mountain's Leap of Faith with Tim Tebow
Big Mountain's Leap of Faith with Tim Tebow

Blurt

Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012
“I’ve been a Chargers fan since I was a little boy,” says Quino McWhinney of Big Mountain. “The Denver Broncos have always symbolized evil in my world.” But maybe not ...

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