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Shows Just Announced
Sometimes you just gotta move to Austin
Matthew Logan Vasquez, Thrice, King Khan & The Shrines, Dawes, Dermot Kennedy
After a decade spent in the frontman slot of mainstream rock bands like the mostly-local Delta Spirit, as well as Middle Brother (featuring members of Dawes and Deer Tick), famous former neighbor Matthew Logan Vasquez ...
Guitars amble and shimmer, drum tracks roll out like bubbles
Covet, Patrick Sweany, Florence & the Machine, Troye Sivan, Clan of Xymox
Based around Oakland and San Jose, “adventure math rock” band Covet features Yvette Young and David Adamiak, who together make sounds best described as music to watch dragons and hobbits by while you test a ...
"Music that's made for having fun," plus other stuff
Eric Paslay, Daedalus, Anderson East, Honne, Shannon & The Clams
In an age where major labels seem the last and least likely place for new talent to develop, it’s a surprise when a big concern like EMI Nashville actually backs a winner that nobody saw ...
What does KOD mean to you?
J. Cole, Omar Apollo, Jade Bird, Timbiriche, and The Flatliners, plus Young Thug
J. Cole’s KOD Tour pulls into Viejas Arena on August 22, promoting a same-named full-length released in April with a title said to either stand for Kill Our Demons, Kids on Drugs, or King Overdosed, ...
Three decades of liquor, women, drugs, and killing
Eddie Spaghetti celebrates 30 years of Supersuckers
It’ll be a few months before Chicago-based doom metal band the Skull releases their sophomore album, The Endless Road Turns Dark, so your first chance to hear a selection of tracks may be when they ...
Not conned
Dennis Quaid's had a couple of toes dipped in the music pool since 1987
Headquartered in Sweden, but sporting two British members, Hillbilly Moon Explosion is celebrating 20 years of playing jump blues, swing, and barroom rock ‘n’ roll with a tour that hits Soda Bar on June 9. ...
Never mind the songs, it's the lineups that are on shuffle
A whole lot of Yes men are coming to town
Even the most die-hard Yes fans are probably confused about two different bands hitting the road this summer with productions billed as Yes 50th Anniversary celebrations. Having hosted dozens of members over the years since ...
Up-and-comers and come-back-arounders
Cults, Gin Blossoms, Brian Setzer, Ugly God, Faust
It’s worth noting that San Diego has developed an interlinked web of small to mid-size music venues that share promoters and book shows at each other’s rooms. Casbah Presents has a particularly fertile relationship with ...
Gym Class Heroes' Never Ending Summer
This is one of those shows where you’re probably a lot better off arriving early than staying late
For the last few years, after over a decade of nearly-annual Humphreys appearances (and a couple of side trips to the long-gone Anthology), smooth jazz cat Lee Ritenour has been staging most of his local ...
Will Live steal the show from the Crows?
Upcoming: Big Sam's Funky Nation, Tory Lanez, Fear, Counting Crows, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
If ever a band name fully complied with all truth in advertising laws, it’s Big Sam’s Funky Nation. Titular singer-trombonist Big Sam Williams is indeed large, both physically and sonically, there’s Bootsy-level funk afoot, and ...
Meghan Trainor offers No Excuses
She had enough momentum to avoid the Best New Artist kiss of death
The Channel 93.3 Summer Kick Off Concert at Mattress Firm Amphitheatre on May 11 is headlined by The Chainsmokers, Miguel, and Ne-Yo, but oh-so-identifiable pop singer Meghan Trainor will be filling an awful lot of ...
Remembering Snoop Dogg's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad night
Chula Vista police formed a skirmish line on stage
For a while in the early 2000s, weed-loving rapper Snoop Dogg avoided the San Diego area. Really, who could blame him, after the first date of his 2001 Puff Puff Pass tour ended early, with ...
The Grateful Dead get the evil beard treatment
Roots of Creation's Grateful Dub gets a live show, plus Violent Femmes, Poptone, and more
Psychedelia and reggae: they usually go together as seamlessly and happily as rhythm goes with blues, as Clapton goes with Cream, as A Day at the Races goes with A Night at the Opera. So ...
Trashcan Sinatras — the best of Groucho Marx and Tom Lehrer.
Plus Circles Around the Sun, Ariel Pink/Nick Hakim, the Floydians Ocean Alley
Two different types of psychedelic jam bands seem to fancy themselves heir to the devotional horde of Deadheads still willing, even anxious, to rejoin their tie-dyed and squinty-eyed brethren at the electric altar: those who ...
Rick Springfield brings The Snake King to the Embarcadero
Plus new shows from lovelytheband, Prong, Jackson Browne, Joe Bonamassa
Life has been good to “Jessie’s Girl” singer Rick Springfield. So good that, despite not charting a U.S. hit since Ronald Reagan was president, the Australian rocker is headlining a two-night stand at Embarcadero Marina ...
