Editor's picks from the San Diego Reader, 1993-94
San Diego lost roads, motorcycle lovers, Silberman-Jerry Brown wiretaps, hitchhiker danger, 10K feet of baseboards, stucco everywhere
8:30 a.m., March 17
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Soul light
Emily King, the Bad Plus, Red Dragon Cartel, Lady Lamb
The Music Box has been stepping up with contemporary high profile acts this year, and their 2019 schedule continues the trend toward currently charting, buzz-heavy acts, especially light soul and radio pop singers like Emily ...
Last Waltz from the Voice of San Diego
Gary Heffern’s Last Waltz, Blackberry Smoke, Lettuce, Dream Theater
Even though he’s been living in Finland for the past few years, Penetrators singer Gary Heffern will forever be the Voice of San Diego to just about anybody who went clubbing around town in the ...
San Diego’s greatest raucous rockabilly
Paladins, Peter Murphy and David J, North Mississippi Allstars, Kiss
A case can be made that the Paladins is greatest band ever to come out of San Diego. If by greatest, you mean most dedicated to a musical cause (in their case, raucous rockabilly), longest-lived ...
Liquid light shows on spinning mirror balls
Poolside, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Districts, Still Woozy, Smokey Robinson
What do you get when you cross the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack with the Grateful Dead? Disco jam band Poolside shines their liquid light shows on spinning mirror balls, creating a syncopated psychedelic sound that ...
One-note joke
Unearth, Okilly Dokilly, Atmosphere, Naked Giants
Inspired by what’s become known as the New Wave of Swedish Death Metal, Unearth debuted out of Boston in the early 2000s as kind of an entry-level Pantera, but with more denim and less leather. ...
A particularly Spielbergian stage show
Thumpasaurus, Parquet Courts, Andrew McMahon, New Kids on the Block
L.A. punk-n-funk rockers Thumpasaurus are the musical answer to the question “What if Pee Wee’s Playhouse had a house band featuring Parliament Funkadelic, led by Captain Beefheart?” Expect a particularly Spielbergian stage show when the ...
Too filthy for phonics
Wheeler Walker Jr., Brockhampton, Thou, Matt Nathanson
Kentucky smartass Wheeler Walker Jr. returns to the North Park Observatory, where his appearance late last year sold out, for a November 30 set that happens to coincide with the release date of his third ...
Man-of-a-thousand-bands plays Halloween show
Pinback, Jakubi, Kyle Craft, Morrissey, Magic Giant
It’s been around 20 years since Pinback first started making noise around town, though recordings tend to be infrequent due to the many musical projects of its members, especially man-of-a-thousand-bands Rob Crow. It’s been a ...
The Poison king by way of persuasion or dissuasion
Bret Michaels, Steven Van Zandt, Barry Manilow, T.S.O.L.
The Poison king by way of persuasion or dissuasion
Something more to talk about than sex and sand
¡MayDay!, Deap Vally, Wingtip, Queen Naija
Something more to talk about than sex and sand
From the Age of Aquarius to the Dawn of Disco
Three Dog Night, Helio Sequence, Ghostemane, Skating Polly
From the Age of Aquarius to the Dawn of Disco
As clear and obvious as a pair of sandals and a tie-dye t-shirt
Terror, Lemon Twigs, Michigan Rattlers, Meteors
Hardcore and metal concerts have long been a staple at Soma, dating all the way back to its original locales around town, and people are still talking about the time that Terror played there in ...
Mr. Sensitive Guitar Guy
Langhorne Slim, Suffocation, Krisiun, Soreption, Mowgli's, Emily Kinney
If ever an act needed to be seen live to be appreciated for all they have to offer, that’d be Langhorne Slim, who treats every stage like a pulpit and leaves every attendee feeling born ...
