San Diego Reader

Jacob Turnbloom

He has a comedic new video for his track "Ride Past the Waves of the Future."

Falling Doves

"We're going on tour to Australia for the third time," frontman Christopher Leyva tells the Reader. "We're doing a few benefits we created along our tour to benefit the https://www.wires.org.au, they help the animals burned by the wildfires. The main benefit in Australia will be in Brisbane at the Crowbar Feb 21 where along with a couple locals we will be selling our shirts and collecting cash...we teamed up with a great poster artist, Diego De Grandi from Brazil, to create a tour shirt and benefit poster, he's done art for Oasis, Tom Petty, and the Rolling Stones. We'll sell the shirt on tour, and all funds will go to the Wires charity." Over the coming year, the band will also visit hit China, Turkey, Dubai and South America for the first time, as well as a return to the UK, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Japan, Italy, Mexico, France, Germany, and Australia.

The Frights

They're playing the 2020 BottleRock Napa Valley festival, running May 22 through 24, headlined by Chili Peppers, Stevie Nicks, and the Dave Matthews Band.

P.O.D.

Drummer Noah "Wuv" Bernardo Jr. has teamed up with members of Flyleaf for a new band called Belle & the Dragon.

Marie Haddad

The video for her song "JDITA" won Best Music Video at the 2019 San Diego Film Week Awards.

The Cardiac Kidz

In addition to their recent 40 Years of Punk CD, a new album on local Blindspot Records called Empty Chairs spotlights the power pop punk side of the group, featuring two new songs and a track previously only found on a compilation, with all original recordings dating from 1976 - 2018.

MohaviSoul

Their fourth full-length, Live at the 42nd Annual Huck Finn Jubilee, includes three new original songs written by Randy Hanson, Mark Miller, and Orion Boucher, as well as a cover of the Waylon Jennings classic "Lonesome, On’ry and Mean."

Manganista

The title track of their Hillbilly Bomb Shelter album, due February 1, is "about a couple of hillbillies who stumble across a bunch of old underground bomb shelters," says Matt Rhea. "They decide to fix up the bomb shelters and sell them to doomsday believers. Dave Talbott painted the album art and kept the theme going from our last two releases."

Manual Scan

The San Diego Underground Files from Spain's Bickerton Records collect unreleased demos and rare tracks from San Diego bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s, available digitally or on deluxe 10" colored vinyl, with inserts and posters and extensive liner notes by Bart Mendoza. Volume one features Manual Scan, who will play an album release show at Casbah on January 16 along with Mittens and Avenue Army. Future volumes will spotlight San Diego bands like the Event and Four Eyes.

Whitney Shay

The release show for her Stand Up album happens March 26 at the Belly Up and features the 44's and the Anthony Cullins Trio.

Lindsay White

Her new single "The Funeral" pays tribute to the late Jeffrey Joe Morin, who mentored her and many other local musicians before he died from complications of respiratory failure in July 2017. Inspired by The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom (a San Diego Songwriters Book Club selection), the video features a slideshow of messages sent from Morin to White through the years.

Deaf Club

Justin Pearson's band has a new video by Rogelio Lopez and Alexandre Lopez for “Days of Amusement Are Over,” from their EP Contemporary Sickness, comprised of live footage from a recent record release show at the Factory DTLA.

Christopher Hollyday

Back after a quarter century hiatus, the jazz saxophonist's upcoming album Dialogue features the same band from his previous record: bassist Rob Thorsen, trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos, pianist Joshua White and young drummer Tyler Kreutel playing popular jazz and jazz-influenced works, as well as three of Hollyday’s own compositions.

Randy Lane

Lane and artist Diane Brunner started a new project called "theartoftheartoftheart." "We are popping up at various public venues around San Diego with Diane's amazing artwork," says Lane. "We are also inviting select artists, craftsmen, and musicians to join us. These pop-up shows are free and open to the public. So far, we've popped up in Little Italy and La Jolla Cove."

Schizophonics

They played the NYC London Calling 40th Anniversary benefit on December 14, a benefit for the Joe Strummer Foundation featuring Debbie Harry, Fred Armisen, and Eugene Hutz (Gogol Bordello). They'll spend February and early March touring New Zealand with bassist Takumi McIntyre (formerly of the Cavemen), including appearances at Upper Hutt's Obey the Riff festival and Tauranga's Not Woodcock extravaganza.

Psychotic Waltz

The God-Shaped Void, their fifth full-length and first new album in 23 years, is due February 14 via InsideOutMusic, so far preceded by a single for “Devils And Angels.” A lyric video by Cloud Music Typography is streaming online.

Travis Barker

ILLENIUM released Barker's remix of his single “Good Things Fall Apart” featuring Jon Bellion. Says Barker, “In my head I pictured all these other parts and sounds from the moment I heard the song. I recorded drums first with all the other parts in my head and then built around it. It was such a well written song already it made my job easy.” Barker recruited Lil Wayne and Rick Ross for his own new track "Gimme Brain", the first release under his DTA Records label, a joint venture with the Elektra Music Group to explore cross-genre collaborations and develop new artists.

Carnifex

A co-headlining tour with 3TEETH kicks off March 13 in Santa Ana wraps April 17 in Los Angeles, making stops in New York City, Nashville, Chicago, and San Diego's Brick by Brick on April 16.

Hot Snakes

The merch booth for their west coast tour, slated to begin February 27 in Phoenix, AZ and wrapping March 12 at the Belly Up, will include a new limited edition 7-inch single for "Checkmate" (their first new song since 2018) b/w the previously unreleased "Not in Time." The tour features Rick Froberg and John Reis (both also of Pitchfork and Drive Like Jehu) along with bassist Gar Wood and drummers Jason Kourkounis and Mario Rubalcaba.

Switchfoot

Two-time Billboard Award winning electronic violinist Lindsey Stirling released a new version of the band's song "Voices" (originally from their recent Native Tongue album), for which she also directed the accompanying music video along with Joshua Shultz - it premiered via her own YouTube channel to over 12 million subscribers.

Rob Halford

The Judas Priest frontman will publish his memoir Confess next October, co-written with Ian Gittins, co-writer of The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue.