Holla Pointe lets 'er rip clean out of the socket
Roots electric harmonica-guitar duo goes extreme
Dave Good 7 p.m., May 24
Blurt: San Diego Music News
Sportscasting now the "real" alternative radio?
Padres don't deliver ratings for FM-94/9
Does Linkin Park mix with Petco Park? Not really, according to newly released Nielsen ratings showing the results of the first full month Padres play-by-play aired on alt-rocker FM-94/9 — the station took a ratings ...
Sonics' sound grounded in garage
After career flying jets, Rob Lind pleased to be back on sax
In the late ’60s, Rob Lind joined the Navy and became an aircraft-carrier pilot. He flew in the Vietnam War, and he followed his love of aviation into a long career as a commercial pilot ...
Whitney Shay's "away" game
Brazilian Mississippi Delta Blues Festival was just the start
A chance encounter at the Doheny Blues Festival two years ago proved to be a pivotal moment for North Park blues woman Whitney Shay, who met a Brazilian guitarist/concert promoter named Igor Prado. “A couple ...
Freshmen be advised, Birdy's a sophomore
Al Howard skips the "organic" cliché and describes how it happened
“We’re all releasing our albums at the Casbah in a 3D release party,” says Shawn P. Rohlf (7th Day Buskers) of the May 27 event he’s staging with Jeff Berkley and Veronica May. “My new ...
Is this the end of Harbor Music Hall?
“The street traffic is louder than our saxophone player."
San Diego jazz fans might be on the verge of losing another music venue now that Harbor Music Hall (1506 India Street) has been threatened with the potential loss of their beer-and-wine license due to ...
Guitar Center refugee
Of corporate greed and Bossfight's "Green"
“It’s about the greed that exists within corporations, specifically venture capitalists, and it has deep personal meaning,” says Bossfight guitarist David Settimi of the band’s new single “Green.” Settimi spent nearly 20 years working for ...
Belly Up County
Tavern's talent-buying blokes expand territory
Having Lady Gaga, Jimmy Buffett, and the Rolling Stones drop by for a show may be the Belly Up Tavern’s most visible triumphs. But behind the scenes the booking staff of the Solana Beach venue ...
Jason Hanna, brassman to the bone
After Herb, it's on to schmaltz-free Mendes, Bowie, Ellington...
Jason Hanna can walk from his home in I.B. to the beach where, on a clear day, he can see the bullring where Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass made one of the first music ...
Blind guitarman's blues
Cory Wilkins: "Don’t invest in music if you are risk-averse."
Cory Wilkins was playing eight gigs a week in Sarasota, Florida, before he moved to San Diego 13 years ago. He can sing, play guitar, and write songs. But he can’t see. “I had some ...
Homeless in the House
Voices of Our City Choir dissed at premier venue?
When the San Diego Music Awards approached musician and homelessness advocate Steph Johnson about having her Voices of Our City Choir open the show at House of Blues last month, she and the group were ...
In-Ko-Pah 4 a go
Rock out in the whipping wind above Ocotillo
For the past four years and for the price of a few burritos and a couple beers, Jim Ko-Pah’s and John Ko-Pah’s high-desert “High Jinks” has been one of San Diego’s best kept secrets among ...
