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Mays Plays Musical Venues with Butthole Surfers
Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011
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Contentious Corner
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011
Ali Nilforshan says he will be taking back 4th&B, the downtown venue he owned from 2003 to 2009. The current owners, Vince and Judy Puma, say that is not going ...
Abstract Swing
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011
As Declan Halloran sees it, the all-age local band scene is easy to sum up. “The bands that play at Soma are either pop-punk, cookie monster [sreamo], or ska. They ...
Taking Back 4th&B
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011
The former owner of 4th&B, the 1500-capacity downtown concert venue, says he is in the process of taking the club back from its current owner and that he is suing ...
The Elephant Has Landed
Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011
Four years after he launched Hensley’s Flying Elephant, pro skateboarder-turned-accordionist (Flogging Molly) Matt Hensley has sold the music venue he built from scratch. “I had help from friends. We built ...
That's Not Rockabilly
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011
Newly appointed Del Mar Fair trustee David Lizerbram says he wants the fairgrounds to host more major music events. That’s just not going to happen, according to promoter Garry Thayer, ...
Not Neighborzly
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011
Bassist Jay Crew says he walked out of reggae band Bad Neighborz last year because lead singer Erik Trogisch was mangling his songs. “Erik screams in the mic. He has ...
A Better Cookie Monster
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011
“I was a dark kid,” says Dane Reinhart about why he started screaming death metal at 15. “I lost my dad to cancer [when I was] 9. I wanted to ...
Fairgrounds Just Got Fairer
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011
A longtime member of the local music scene has been tapped to help run the Del Mar Fairgrounds. David Lizerbram occasionally sits in with Rio Peligroso when the Americana band ...
Naming Rights
Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011
Blink-182’s new CD, out September 27, has the harmless title Neighborhoods. But the potty-mouthed pop-punk band from Poway is known for releasing albums referencing enemas and masturbation. The title Take ...
Mays Plays Musical Venues
Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011
“Boycott 4th&B!!!” That tweet could have come from a disgruntled ex-bouncer or a band that didn’t get drink tickets. It appeared August 21 on the Casbah’s Twitter stream and was ...
