Carry the Stone covers, Mike Keneally recruits, Dead Cross offshoots, The Trebels reunite, Jewel & Julio Iglesias Jr collaborate

On Thursday, January 19, the Music Box hosts Carry the Stone: An All-Star Tribute to the Music of Pink Floyd. The core band features locals Josh Taylor and Sam Hunt (guitars and vocals), Josh Weinstein (keys and vocals), Ken Dow (bass and vocals), Jonny Tarr (guitar, sax, and vocals), Larry Grano (drums and vocals), and singers Lauren Leigh and Sandi King. Guest vocalists include Gregory Page, Whitney Shay, Jeff Berkley, Chloe Lou, and Kori Gillis.

Former Frank Zappa band guitarist Mike Keneally has a new album called The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat, with one track called “Celery” that features guitar solos recruited from Steve Vai. “You’ll know which of the solos are him when you hear them, he’s kinda recognizable,” says Keneally. The video for “Celery” is an excerpt from Finnish director Mikko Keinonen’s upcoming short film The Complete Adventures of the Unrelated Sound Guy.

Founding Dead Cross drummer Dave Lombardo has teamed up with his wife, Canadian born singer/songwriter and pianist Paula Lombardo, to launch a new band called Venamoris. “Several months after meeting Paula in 2010, she hesitantly shared with me her past decade-long career as the lead backup singer for Wayne Newton,” says Lombardo. “She later played me some of the demos she recorded throughout the years…I was determined to persuade her to return to her creative self.”

The Trebels were a mod-inspired 1980s garage rock and R&B band based in Imperial Beach. Their name was inspired by a Tijuana group called the Trebles whose guitarist Tio Chato gave lessons to a founding Trebel.

The band will reunite to play a 40 Year Anniversary Party on Saturday, January 21, at the Casbah, for a bill that includes The Loons, Alvino & the Dwells, and DJ Tony the Tyger.

Singer-songwriter Jewel is featured on a new collaborative single from Julio Iglesias Jr. covering George Michael’s “Careless Whisper,” slated for the upcoming Iglesias album Under the Covers, produced by Grammy award winner Rudy Perez. “Together,” says Jewel, “we wanted to illustrate both sides of the story, opposing ends of the partnership, but locked together in harmony, like most complicated relationships.”