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Live Five: Benches, Helsott, the Loons, Berkley Hart Selis Twang, Pip Lewis
Rock, metal, acoustic, and folk music in Little Italy, Linda Vista, Carlsbad
Jesika von Rabbit
June 12
Originally known as Ignorant Benches when founded in 2014 by Chula Vista 8th graders, the players in Benches were still in school while scoring gigs at the Casbah, followed by multiple appearances at Soma through 2017. They made their first professional recordings with local star Brian Karscig (Louis XIV, Nervous Wreckords) in early 2018. After opening for Foster the People and several Louis XIV reunions, their debut full-length was released in summer 2019. Their early 2024 single “Naive” was the band’s first release in over a year, taken from a new EP called Kill The Lights, which was preceded by the release of its title track. Following this Little Italy date, they’ll be supported on tour by fellow locals Pleasure Pill, with an appearance slated for Lollapalooza later in the summer.
June 14
The Wacken Metal Battle warm-up show features several bands hoping to win the competition to represent the U.S. by performing at the famed overseas music festival. Headliners Helsott is a pagan metal band whose name means “fatal illness” in Old Norse. They pay homage to pagan cultures and mythology with folk metal, death metal, symphonic metal, thrash, classical, and rock. They’re known for concept albums such as 2022’s Will and the Witch, which tells a fictional story of how Billy the Kid became the fastest gunfighter in the wild west. The Linda Vista bill includes Corpus, Morningstvr, Burning Grave, and Druide.
June 14
“We play psychotic beat music, tapping into the most exciting elements of mid-to-late ’60s rock and roll and channel it into new, intense, original songs of our own,” says bassist/singer Anja Diabolik, who cofounded the Loons with hubby Mike Stax (the Crawdaddys) in the mid-1990s. “We find it a lot more interesting than opting to be a mere ’60s garage-band jukebox.” The band is featured in a 2014 book, Knights of Fuzz, detailing sixties-inspired bands including other paisley-inclined locals like Shake Before Us, the Gravedigger V, the Morlocks, the Event, Tell-Tale Hearts, Manual Scan, and the Crawdaddys. The Little Italy show will be headlined by Jesika Von Rabbit, with an opening set from SeaBase.
Berkley Hart Selis Twang at Pilgrim United Church of Christ
June 15
“It’s euphoric to sing in a four-part harmony band,” says Jeff Berkley, one-fourth of Berkley Hart Selis Twang. “It’s joyful and feels like you’re gonna lift off the ground. I think the audiences feel that, too. That’s the way they talk when we hang out after shows, anyways.” The quartet features Berkley with frequent collaborator Calman Hart, along with acoustic songstress Eve Selis and her longtime guitarist Marc “Twang” Intravaia. The group specializes in an evocative throwback to the late-’60s Laurel Canyon sound popularized by Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, and CSNY. Opening the Carlsbad concert will be local singer-songwriter (and former Padres player) Tim Flannery.
June 17
Pip Lewis is a British-American folk-pop indie singer-songwriter and a Song Academy Young Songwriter finalist. She calls herself a “hopeless empath,” often reflecting on the human condition, which she says is “the one thing we all have in common.” Earlier this year, she dropped a new single and video for “Safe & Sound,” and another single and video for “Baby Teeth,” both from her new album Growing Pains. This date of Lewis’ June residency at the Casbah includes performances from The Egg Factory and The Fazes, as well as a set from DJ Krysdacat.
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Live Five: Benches, Helsott, the Loons, Berkley Hart Selis Twang, Pip Lewis
Rock, metal, acoustic, and folk music in Little Italy, Linda Vista, Carlsbad
Live Five: Benches, Helsott, the Loons, Berkley Hart Selis Twang, Pip Lewis
Rock, metal, acoustic, and folk music in Little Italy, Linda Vista, Carlsbad
Jesika von Rabbit
June 12
Originally known as Ignorant Benches when founded in 2014 by Chula Vista 8th graders, the players in Benches were still in school while scoring gigs at the Casbah, followed by multiple appearances at Soma through 2017. They made their first professional recordings with local star Brian Karscig (Louis XIV, Nervous Wreckords) in early 2018. After opening for Foster the People and several Louis XIV reunions, their debut full-length was released in summer 2019. Their early 2024 single “Naive” was the band’s first release in over a year, taken from a new EP called Kill The Lights, which was preceded by the release of its title track. Following this Little Italy date, they’ll be supported on tour by fellow locals Pleasure Pill, with an appearance slated for Lollapalooza later in the summer.
June 14
The Wacken Metal Battle warm-up show features several bands hoping to win the competition to represent the U.S. by performing at the famed overseas music festival. Headliners Helsott is a pagan metal band whose name means “fatal illness” in Old Norse. They pay homage to pagan cultures and mythology with folk metal, death metal, symphonic metal, thrash, classical, and rock. They’re known for concept albums such as 2022’s Will and the Witch, which tells a fictional story of how Billy the Kid became the fastest gunfighter in the wild west. The Linda Vista bill includes Corpus, Morningstvr, Burning Grave, and Druide.
June 14
“We play psychotic beat music, tapping into the most exciting elements of mid-to-late ’60s rock and roll and channel it into new, intense, original songs of our own,” says bassist/singer Anja Diabolik, who cofounded the Loons with hubby Mike Stax (the Crawdaddys) in the mid-1990s. “We find it a lot more interesting than opting to be a mere ’60s garage-band jukebox.” The band is featured in a 2014 book, Knights of Fuzz, detailing sixties-inspired bands including other paisley-inclined locals like Shake Before Us, the Gravedigger V, the Morlocks, the Event, Tell-Tale Hearts, Manual Scan, and the Crawdaddys. The Little Italy show will be headlined by Jesika Von Rabbit, with an opening set from SeaBase.
Berkley Hart Selis Twang at Pilgrim United Church of Christ
June 15
“It’s euphoric to sing in a four-part harmony band,” says Jeff Berkley, one-fourth of Berkley Hart Selis Twang. “It’s joyful and feels like you’re gonna lift off the ground. I think the audiences feel that, too. That’s the way they talk when we hang out after shows, anyways.” The quartet features Berkley with frequent collaborator Calman Hart, along with acoustic songstress Eve Selis and her longtime guitarist Marc “Twang” Intravaia. The group specializes in an evocative throwback to the late-’60s Laurel Canyon sound popularized by Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, and CSNY. Opening the Carlsbad concert will be local singer-songwriter (and former Padres player) Tim Flannery.
June 17
Pip Lewis is a British-American folk-pop indie singer-songwriter and a Song Academy Young Songwriter finalist. She calls herself a “hopeless empath,” often reflecting on the human condition, which she says is “the one thing we all have in common.” Earlier this year, she dropped a new single and video for “Safe & Sound,” and another single and video for “Baby Teeth,” both from her new album Growing Pains. This date of Lewis’ June residency at the Casbah includes performances from The Egg Factory and The Fazes, as well as a set from DJ Krysdacat.