Los Cruzadores invite all to ride and rock show
15-mile transnational bike ride ends at Moustache Bar
Ken Leighton 8 p.m., Aug. 16
Blurt: San Diego Music News
Los Cruzadores invite all to ride and rock show
15-mile transnational bike ride ends at Moustache Bar
Subtropic bassist Dana Chavarria just got a master’s degree in Peace and Justice from USD after completing studies on both sides of the border. He knows what an American president who decries Mexican “rapists” and ...
No rap against Putin
“It’s not that I don’t want to get political, it's just not safe.”
Now seems like the time for a locally based Russian rapper to come up with some rhymes about Moscow election scams. But Anton Romashev, who performs locally as Tonik Slam, won’t be. “It’s not that ...
Was Big Boy Groves another rap daddy?
Graveyard encounter unburies info on '50s-'60s songwriter
“Its rhyme and lyrical style has made collectors call it one of the first rap songs,” says archivist Andy Rasmussen of the song titled “Bucket O’ Blood.” Rasmussen will soon reissue the 1962 track recorded ...
Leonard Patton Quartet bags Guinness gig record
70 performances around town in 24 hours
“We actually broke the record with gig number 66 at Public Square Coffee House in La Mesa about 7:45 in the morning with two and a half hours to spare,” recalls vocalist Leonard Patton, whose ...
The Local band not yet big in Ethiopia
"I see it as a chance to concentrate on songwriting."
“Scott is presently on some sort of trek with hippos and crocodiles in southern Ethiopia,” says Amy Day, whose band the Local suddenly finds itself minus cofounding singer-guitarist Scott Walsh just as their debut album ...
Mohawked moshers and girls with tutus don’t mix
“People have a tendency to fear what they don’t understand."
Zak Prescott, drummer with Lemon Grove punk band P-S-O, suggests culture clash caused Industry, an all-ages music venue in Chula Vista’s Eastlake area, to close in January. The 250-capacity Industry hosted eight to ten shows ...
Blues no more, Aristotle Georgio
"He was the only guy in the band to get on James Brown’s bus after our show."
Aristotle Georgio (aka Mike Smith) spent the last year of his life hooked up to a feeding tube after being assaulted in the Gaslamp Quarter on July 1st of 2016, when a sucker-punch caused him ...
Ché Café okay to stay
“It was always lower-level administrators who had an axe to grind.”
Thanks to an intervention by UCSD chancellor Pradeep Kholsa, the Ché Café has been saved. A lease has been signed by members of the Ché Café Collective that will allow the all-ages venue to reopen ...
The Littlest Hurricane
“Hopefully we’ll find a place to live after the baby arrives.”
“I think it’s safe to say I’ll be the only pregnant drummer playing at Kaaboo,” says C.C. Spina of Little Hurricane. “I will be almost nine months pregnant. That will be our last show of ...
Pony Death Ride Realty Co.
“Initially, we didn’t want people to know we were in a band."
“We were surprised how being an agent is so similar to being in a band,” says Joe MacAskill. “Lots of marketing, having a website, maintaining connections, networking.” Along with his wife Jaye, MacAskill brokers real ...
Blind Mountain Holler, like family
"‘Cheese Sandwich’ is about when Kelley and I were living in the back of a U-Haul."
Scotty Bones’s gritty, plaintive vocals and soul-bearing lyrics remind many of early Tom Waits. Scotty and Amanda Bones’ husband/wife harmonic wailings bring to mind Johnny Cash/June Carter or Southern Culture on the Skids. With cello ...
