RIP Marshmallow Highway guitarist John Ruckle
Also played with Clemson Weed Band & Heat Show Band
Jay Allen Sanford noon, March 16
Concerts Just Announced
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Built To Spill
The Casbah
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
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Remo Drive and Slow Pulp
The Irenic
Sunday, June 23, 2019
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Cowboy Junkies
Observatory North Park
Saturday, May 18, 2019
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Reel Big Fish and Bowling For Soup
House of Blues
Friday, July 26, 2019
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311 and Dirty Heads
North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sunday, August 11, 2019
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Hozier
Open Air Theatre
Saturday, October 26, 2019
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The Black Keys and Modest Mouse
Pechanga Arena San Diego
Sunday, November 17, 2019
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CJ Ramone and Mean Jeans
Soda Bar
Sunday, June 9, 2019
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Cory Branan & Vandoliers
Soda Bar
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
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Young Jesus
Ché Café
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
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TTNG and the Kraken Quartet
The Irenic
Friday, June 7, 2019
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Carlos Rivera
House of Blues
Saturday, October 12, 2019
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Connan Mockasin
The Casbah
Monday, June 3, 2019
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Aly & AJ
Observatory North Park
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
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Jamila Woods
The Casbah
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Just Announced
Aerosmithian rock balladry
Deaf Havana, Jamila Woods, Aly & AJ, Smashing Pumpkins
It sometimes seems as if British alt-rockers Deaf Havana are embarrassed by the top-five chart success of their biggest release, 2017’s All These Countless Nights. Formed in 2005, their fifth album from last year, Rituals, ...
Blurt Music News
RIP Marshmallow Highway guitarist John Ruckle
Also played with Clemson Weed Band & Heat Show Band
Marshmallow Highway formed in the late 1960s, with its definitive lineup of guitarist John Edward Ruckle, drummer Rod Howard (whose family home in Linda Vista served as their rehearsal studio), and Marc Intravaia, who played ...
Levi Dean & The Americats: now Free and Untethered
“When we wouldn’t comply we were kicked off stage and asked to leave with no pay”
Levi Dean, born in Virginia, late of the Rocky Mountains, late of Nashville, lately seen around University Heights, Normal Heights, and North Park, has had good and bad shows all over the country. “One of ...
Immigration through Migration: Pat Metheny drummer and composer of Birdman soundtrack Antonio Sanchez releases new album
Grammy Award winner is “completely repulsed by what the United States is doing to immigrants”
The cover photo of drummer Antonio Sanchez’s new CD Lines In The Sand, which dropped in January, should be familiar to most San Diegans. It depicts the U.S. border wall at Imperial Beach as it ...
Classical Music
Robert Spanos personality, Vaughn Williams' glory show up at San Diego Symphony
Beethoven not great before 3rd Piano Concerto, 3rd Symphony
We are having a proper winter in San Diego and on Saturday, March 9, we had a proper symphony performed by the San Diego Symphony at the Jacobs Music Center. Before we received the proper ...
James Agee and Joélle Harvey made me like Samuel Barber
San Diego Symphony's A Village Romeo and Julietand Knoxville Summer of 1915
Soprano Joélle Harvey was my favorite part of the San Diego Symphony concert on Friday, March 1, at Symphony Hall. Over the years I’ve been critical and disappointed with the vocal experience at the symphony ...
Musician Interviews
Band Argument's analog-digital hybrid
“We have samples of banjos, steel drums, didgeridoos, flutes, and synths, among other things.”
“This project is an analog-digital hybrid,” says former Big Bad Buffalo drummer Jordan Krimston of his new group, Band Argument. “It’s a classic rock band setup — two guitars, bass, drums, vocals — but everything ...
Of Note
Sugaray Rayford’s Electric blues: a heavyweight jam with Al Kooper, Slash, Def Leppard’s Vivian Campbell and others
The ex-Marine has soul gravel in his pipes and the ghost of Teddy Pendergrass running through his veins
Sugaray Rayford is a heavyweight of the electric blues. Born in Texas, the 6’5” Rayford has said that by the age of four, he was in church seven days a week, singing in choirs. His ...
