Blurt: San Diego Music News
A limited-edition vinyl pressing of P.O.D.’s new full-length, Murdered Love, drops this week. It’s available in two colors: transparent red and clear with red splatter. On November 30, the Tin Can Alehouse will host the …
Helix High School band directors get creative in the absence of funding, including mattress sales and cow-chip bingo.
Are Arbitron’s Portable People Meters fairly measuring the San Diego listenership of FM 94/9?
SDSU student/musician Ariel Schwartz says Associated Students has stopped paying to host bands and only includes DJs for entertainment.
San Diego club-goers who smoke cigarettes take part in quit groups started by Rescue Social Change Group, funded through a grant from the University of California, San Francisco.
Interview with Steve Weinberger, author of the book No Air Guitar Allowed.
Trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos did his last Wednesday-night gig at El Camino bar/restaurant on October 31.
Thom Beebe, owner of Guitar and Bass Land/Skin City Drums in El Cajon won’t deal in used musical equipment anymore due to an increase in secondhand/pawnshop permit fees.
All about Penis Hickey, “an anarchic steel-toe to your earballs.”
Show Palace gets raided by multiple agencies on night of Alejandra Guzman show. Nothing was found, show proceeded. Insiders suggest state bureau of Alcoholic Beverage Control was exerting pressure.
Axe body spray pays Ninja Love for use of a song in a South American ad campaign.
DJ Tayari Howard launches web-based jazz-radio stations KKSD and KBLK.
In a way, the Fire Eaters are the next generation of San Diego soul and acid jazz.
Jazz nightspot Dizzy’s found a new home in the showroom at San Diego Jet Ski Rentals in P.B.
Jason Lee of Oceanside started doing Kiss tributes 36 years ago. “I remember being six years old and putting the pillows in a semicircle around the couch like a stage. I would air drum with …