Rob Stone, Lemon Grove's Soulja Boy
I want to be a legend
Jonah Valdez 11:30 p.m., July 26
Concerts Just Announced
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Thievery Corporation
Belly Up
Thursday, October 26, 2017
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Odesza and Sofi Tukker
Valley View Casino Center
Thursday, October 19, 2017
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Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers
Music Box
Thursday, September 14, 2017
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Guns N' Roses
Valley View Casino Center
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
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The Church and the Helio Sequence
Music Box
Saturday, September 16, 2017
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Fresh Sound: Vicky Chow
Bread & Salt
Monday, November 20, 2017
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Tedeschi Trucks Band
San Diego Civic Theatre
Thursday, November 9, 2017
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The Wailers
Belly Up
Thursday, September 21, 2017
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David Ramirez
The Casbah
Thursday, November 9, 2017
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Jay-Z
Viejas Arena
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
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Tori Amos
Balboa Theatre
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
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Slaughter & the Dogs
Soda Bar
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Just Announced
Get tickets to Vicky Chow, Coast Modern, and the Kickback
Coming soon to San Diego
Chicago indie rock quartet the Kickback is touring in support of their sophomore full-length Weddings & Funerals, released last month and produced by Dennis Herring (Ben Folds, Mutemath, Elvis Costello). Coming two years after their ...
Blurt Music News
Forensically curated Jade Shader LP
Durfey bros Prescott and Crow put together last album
The Jade Shader’s final album Sea Stacks and Sleestaks was released by Joyful Noise on July 1 — nine years after singer Terrin Durfey (Boilermaker) passed away in 2008 following a long battle with melanoma. ...
Music Trader veteran opens La Mesa record shop
"I know what kind of product just walks through the door and falls in your lap."
When you think of genius business moves in 2017, opening a used-record shop doesn’t immediately spring to mind. Since the advent of Napster in 1999, the general trend for record stores has been death as ...
Record Roundup
Be ready for Cavity Search and other easy-listeners
Piano-based alt-rockers Imagery Machine debuts their second EP Skydriver on July 27, at Soda Bar. “The set will include songs from both EPs, some Led Zeppelin and Prince covers, and extra special face paint and ...
Classical Music
The derivative curse
Composers who try to avoid it are to doomed to be it
Derivative is the greatest insult in the book when it comes to modern composers. No one wants to be declared as “derivative” of anything. I am, of course, speaking of the artistic derivative not the ...
Beethoven should send a bill
The Milky Way inspires a look at what gives and what takes
On the way to camping in Idaho I stopped on The Extraterrestrial Highway. My children were with me and wondered what was going on when I pulled the car over in the middle of nowhere. ...
Musician Interviews
Space Time to poke hole in San Diego bubble?
"We want the major art mags to talk about what is happening here."
There’s a time and a space for everything. At least, that’s the idea behind art-and-music collective Space Time, which held its first of many events at Barrio Logan’s Bread & Salt in July of 2016. ...
Of Note
Buttertones slather on the West Coast 1960s
Voodoo-ish sound owes much to Dick Dale
Surf rock, as written and performed by players who were raised on grunge. Otherwise, the Buttertones are all over the place, with sonic influences from bands like the Gun Club all the way back to ...
