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Blurt: San Diego Music News
Unleash the fire
Castle’s raw, stripped down approach is often compared to early Rush
Castle’s video for "Deal Thy Fate," the title tune of their new album, shows them mostly romping under Mojave heat near the band’s pad in Joshua Tree; but it throws in some eerie things materializing ...
Aboriginal Beatle Puppies
Record roundup with Yale Strom, Mount Pleasant, Bruin, Stevie Salas, Richard Filaccio, and Low Volts
Klezmer musicologist Yale Strom has a new album with his Broken Consort, Shimmering Lights, featuring traditional Yiddish, Ladino, and Hebrew Khanike songs inspired by the sounds of Morocco, Poland, Spain, and elsewhere. "We have a ...
New beginning for Dewey Defeats Truman
"We realize how fun it is to play music again.”
For a decade bassist/singer James Reader and drummer Scott Frazier were in two different “Casbah bands” that went on to get national buzz: Red Dye No. 5 and, later, Dewey Defeats Truman. The 1995 Red ...
Casbah turns 30 with weeks-long celebration
Pivotal local acts from the ’70s through ’90s will stage rare reunions
Countless local bands made their first mark at 2812 Kettner, the original Casbah locale opened in 1989 with fixtures purchased from a defunct Farrell’s ice cream parlor that for some reason sported at least one ...
Bass therapy
Music gives bassist Marilyn Quinsaat a new lease on life
“I was having dinner and drinks with a friend when all of a sudden, I started to feel numb,” recalls bassist Marilyn Quinsaat (Sequin in the Sky, Sock Monkeys) of the night her life changed ...
Intercontinental collaboration
San Diego’s Quel Bordel unite with BandàpArt to form French-English folk punk supergroup
“After all these years on the road together, we’ve come up with a few original songs, and we’re finally releasing an EP with three originals and one cover,” says singer-guitarist Jake Skolnick of BandàBordel, a ...
El Ten Eleven’s double-necked axe
“I had to come up with my own techniques and tunings for playing both necks at the same time.”
Playing guitar and bass more-or-less at once, in real time, with only two hands, might strike one as a strenuous proposition. But Kristian Dunn, of instrumental duo El Ten Eleven, makes it work. With a ...
Jazz Marine
Trombonist Matt Hall’s journey to San Diego
“It’s all because of music, really,” explains trombonist Matt Hall, contemplating the journey that brought him from East Tennessee to San Diego. Hall has been playing the trombone since he was 10-years old and it ...
Coffee music
Daniel Charlson unveils his all-vinyl Dark Horse Coffee Records
“When I saw Starbucks get into music” — selling CDs in-store and running its own label — “I thought it was a genius idea,” says local coffee entrepreneur Daniel Charlson. “I thought what they were ...
Gigmaster Kornhauser
“Being a musician is always kind of feast or famine”
In jazz circles, a player who knows how to stay working on a consistent basis despite the relative lack of opportunities in a limited market stands out, and in San Diego, pianist Ed Kornhauser (who ...
“Rational Discourse is Gay”
Anal Trump’s first 100 songs
Anal Trump, Rob Crow’s not-so-secret collaboration (under pseudonyms) with Cattle Decapitation’s Travis Ryan, dropped their album The First 100 Songs via Joyful Noise on Election Day. It features selections from each of their previous EPs ...
