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Live Five: Sinja the Architect, Earthless, Secret Fun Club, Gayle Skidmore, Songwriter Sanctuary
Hip-hop, space rock, pop, Americana, and in-the-round in Normal Heights, Spring Valley, Solana Beach, Little Italy
Detail from the cover of Whiskey & Burlap's album Milkman
Songwriter Sanctuary at Normal Heights United Methodist Church
October 24
Hosted at the acoustically majestic former home of the Acoustic Music San Diego series, Songwriter Sanctuary features original music performed in a Nashville-style round, hosted by local icon Jeff Berkley. This edition includes Shea Givens, DevvLov, and San Diego Music Awards Artist of the Year Anthony Cullins. Givens, a Missouri native now based in Southern California, cites influences from R&B and neo-soul to blues, rock, and country. DevvLov delivers a unique blend of rhythm and soul, performing from his cajón while looping percussion and keys. Guitarist Anthony Cullins, known as The Fallbrook Kid, fuses blues, funk, rock, and soul into a dazzling guitar style that’s earned him San Diego Music Awards for Best Blues Artist (2023) and Artist of the Year (2025). He has performed alongside noted headliners including Frank Hannon (Tesla), Greg Douglass (Steve Miller Band), and Kid Ramos.
Sinja the Architect at the Bancroft
October 24
Sinja the Architect is a San Diego-based hip-hop artist whose sound is rooted in boom-bap, a gritty style of hip-hop defined by its rhythmic drum breaks. The songs released so far online sport hook-laden textures that can clearly double as EDM dance floor staples that come with an extra layer of lo-fi aesthetics and lyrical realism. Among the influences he cites are MF DOOM, Deltron 3030, Dr. Octagon, and Black Thought. He recently released a single called “No Mind,” which was also shot as a music video. Another single released around the same time, “Right Here,” blends trip-hop atmosphere with underground hip-hop storytelling.
Earthless at the Belly Up Tavern
October 25
Inspired by Krautrock and Japanese psychedelic bands when it launched in 2001, space rockers Earthless features drummer Mario Rubalcaba, who formerly played with Rocket from the Crypt, the Black Heart Procession, Hot Snakes, the Sultans, and Clikatat Ikatowi. Guitarist Isaiah Mitchell is a former member of Nebula who has also performed with Lady Dottie and the Diamonds. Bassist Mike Eginton formerly played with Electric Nazarene. Mitchell sings occasionally, but the band's music is mostly instrumental and always psychedelic, featuring long semi-improvised songs drawing on classic rock, blues, jazz, prog, and desert stoner rock. At the 2007 San Diego Music Awards, they took home a Best Hard Rock Album trophy for Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky. They’ve released six studio full-lengths and five concert albums, including 2021’s Live in the Mojave Desert, and their most recent studio album dropped in 2022, Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. They’ve had frequent success touring in Australia, where they did a ten-date cross-continent road trip that just wrapped in late September, and they also recently played London, England’s DesertFest. The bill includes Minami Deutsch, formed in Tokyo by Kyotaro Miula (guitar, vocals, synthesizer) in 2014.
October 25
Secret Fun Club has been the longstanding musical outlet for drummer and engineer Sal Gallegos (Some Girls) and bassist John Rieder. The group began as an experimental bass and drum noise group that uses old-tube electronics and modern computer sound manipulation. Their song “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” featuring Carrie Gillespie Feller (Hours, Ilya, Hexa) appeared on a Cramps tribute album, Really Bad Music for Really Bad People. The bill includes All Monster Revue, a local act that bills itself as “the band that goes bump in the night, from new blood originals to reanimated spooky tunes.” Also appearing is Wookalars, a local two-piece prog-rock-punk band with singer-guitarist David Motte and drummer Cody Benson, and local punk rockers Witch Face, fronted by singer Mia Najor, who’ve worked with San Diego icons such as Dean Reis (Sultans) and Mitch Wilson (No Knife).
October 27
Gayle Skidmore was 11 when she confiscated her father’s 12-string guitar and taught herself to play. By the time the San Diego homegirl moved to England to study at Oxford University, she was experimenting with alternate tunings and finger styles and expanding her vocal styling to include a wider, operatic range and improvisational jazz phrasing. She was cited Best Singer-Songwriter at the 2013 San Diego Music Awards, which named Sleeping Bear as Best Pop Album in 2014. This past April saw the release of her neoclassical album, The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, which explores the tragic collapse of a railroad bridge in Ashtabula, Ohio, in December 1876. The disaster claimed the lives of 92 people, including Skidmore’s relative, hymn writer Philip P. Bliss. For this Little Italy performance, Skidmore will be joined by Will Stucky, along with opening act Whiskey & Burlap, whose blend of Americana, bluegrass, country, and folk music earned their debut album a trophy for Best Folk/Acoustic Album at the 2022 San Diego Music Awards.
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Live Five: Sinja the Architect, Earthless, Secret Fun Club, Gayle Skidmore, Songwriter Sanctuary
Hip-hop, space rock, pop, Americana, and in-the-round in Normal Heights, Spring Valley, Solana Beach, Little Italy
Live Five: Sinja the Architect, Earthless, Secret Fun Club, Gayle Skidmore, Songwriter Sanctuary
Hip-hop, space rock, pop, Americana, and in-the-round in Normal Heights, Spring Valley, Solana Beach, Little Italy
Detail from the cover of Whiskey & Burlap's album Milkman
Songwriter Sanctuary at Normal Heights United Methodist Church
October 24
Hosted at the acoustically majestic former home of the Acoustic Music San Diego series, Songwriter Sanctuary features original music performed in a Nashville-style round, hosted by local icon Jeff Berkley. This edition includes Shea Givens, DevvLov, and San Diego Music Awards Artist of the Year Anthony Cullins. Givens, a Missouri native now based in Southern California, cites influences from R&B and neo-soul to blues, rock, and country. DevvLov delivers a unique blend of rhythm and soul, performing from his cajón while looping percussion and keys. Guitarist Anthony Cullins, known as The Fallbrook Kid, fuses blues, funk, rock, and soul into a dazzling guitar style that’s earned him San Diego Music Awards for Best Blues Artist (2023) and Artist of the Year (2025). He has performed alongside noted headliners including Frank Hannon (Tesla), Greg Douglass (Steve Miller Band), and Kid Ramos.
Sinja the Architect at the Bancroft
October 24
Sinja the Architect is a San Diego-based hip-hop artist whose sound is rooted in boom-bap, a gritty style of hip-hop defined by its rhythmic drum breaks. The songs released so far online sport hook-laden textures that can clearly double as EDM dance floor staples that come with an extra layer of lo-fi aesthetics and lyrical realism. Among the influences he cites are MF DOOM, Deltron 3030, Dr. Octagon, and Black Thought. He recently released a single called “No Mind,” which was also shot as a music video. Another single released around the same time, “Right Here,” blends trip-hop atmosphere with underground hip-hop storytelling.
Earthless at the Belly Up Tavern
October 25
Inspired by Krautrock and Japanese psychedelic bands when it launched in 2001, space rockers Earthless features drummer Mario Rubalcaba, who formerly played with Rocket from the Crypt, the Black Heart Procession, Hot Snakes, the Sultans, and Clikatat Ikatowi. Guitarist Isaiah Mitchell is a former member of Nebula who has also performed with Lady Dottie and the Diamonds. Bassist Mike Eginton formerly played with Electric Nazarene. Mitchell sings occasionally, but the band's music is mostly instrumental and always psychedelic, featuring long semi-improvised songs drawing on classic rock, blues, jazz, prog, and desert stoner rock. At the 2007 San Diego Music Awards, they took home a Best Hard Rock Album trophy for Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky. They’ve released six studio full-lengths and five concert albums, including 2021’s Live in the Mojave Desert, and their most recent studio album dropped in 2022, Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. They’ve had frequent success touring in Australia, where they did a ten-date cross-continent road trip that just wrapped in late September, and they also recently played London, England’s DesertFest. The bill includes Minami Deutsch, formed in Tokyo by Kyotaro Miula (guitar, vocals, synthesizer) in 2014.
October 25
Secret Fun Club has been the longstanding musical outlet for drummer and engineer Sal Gallegos (Some Girls) and bassist John Rieder. The group began as an experimental bass and drum noise group that uses old-tube electronics and modern computer sound manipulation. Their song “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” featuring Carrie Gillespie Feller (Hours, Ilya, Hexa) appeared on a Cramps tribute album, Really Bad Music for Really Bad People. The bill includes All Monster Revue, a local act that bills itself as “the band that goes bump in the night, from new blood originals to reanimated spooky tunes.” Also appearing is Wookalars, a local two-piece prog-rock-punk band with singer-guitarist David Motte and drummer Cody Benson, and local punk rockers Witch Face, fronted by singer Mia Najor, who’ve worked with San Diego icons such as Dean Reis (Sultans) and Mitch Wilson (No Knife).
October 27
Gayle Skidmore was 11 when she confiscated her father’s 12-string guitar and taught herself to play. By the time the San Diego homegirl moved to England to study at Oxford University, she was experimenting with alternate tunings and finger styles and expanding her vocal styling to include a wider, operatic range and improvisational jazz phrasing. She was cited Best Singer-Songwriter at the 2013 San Diego Music Awards, which named Sleeping Bear as Best Pop Album in 2014. This past April saw the release of her neoclassical album, The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, which explores the tragic collapse of a railroad bridge in Ashtabula, Ohio, in December 1876. The disaster claimed the lives of 92 people, including Skidmore’s relative, hymn writer Philip P. Bliss. For this Little Italy performance, Skidmore will be joined by Will Stucky, along with opening act Whiskey & Burlap, whose blend of Americana, bluegrass, country, and folk music earned their debut album a trophy for Best Folk/Acoustic Album at the 2022 San Diego Music Awards.