Rocky road: Civita residents to push back plan
Proposed thoroughfare imperils "safe, walkable dense urban village"
Dorian Hargrove noon, Aug. 22
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The other Haydn
Michael Haydn was brother to Joseph and mentor to Mozart
Michael Haydn died on August 10, 1806. He was younger brother to Joseph Haydn and counted Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart amongst his friends and admirers. The anniversary of his death prompted me to give his Requiem ...
Los Cruzadores invite all to ride and rock show
15-mile transnational bike ride ends at Moustache Bar
Subtropics 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 ...
Taz Taylor will drive trucks for rock
"I couldn’t imagine having a job where I’d have to be around other people constantly."
"I have dual British and USA citizenship,” says guitarist Taz Taylor, who grew up in England before moving to San Diego in 1997. Since settling in Imperial Beach, he’s released a series of guitar-centered albums, ...
Lafayette Falkquay's purple Strat shoots straight
Two decades of club-hopping gets blues man to a rare place
Pure and greasy, raw, nasty, sexy, down-home Texas-style blues: there are possibly three or four authentic blues performers in San Diego, and Lafayette Falkquay is at the top of the stack. He’s a product of ...
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 ...
San Diego concert announcements
Including Albert Lee and Cindy Cashdollar, Delicate Steve, and Big Sandy & His Flyrite Boys
Albert Lee and Cindy Cashdollar will perform as a duo at Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall on September 9, a benefit concert in support of NAMM’s Museum of Making Music. Lee probably needs little or ...
Stop picking the Wagnerian scab
It’s time to take Wagner back from National Socialism
Whatever would we do without PC culture to judge the recent past (last 200 years) for us and then share its verdict of guilty based on the precious shell which has been slowly swallowing culture ...
Band booted off Imperial Beach farmers market stage
Crowd boos, video goes viral
After getting kicked off the stage at the Imperial Beach Farmers Market on Friday, August 4th, a San Diego music group's humorous video about the incident is going viral. "We were devastated," said Catie Ryan ...
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 ...
Tickets just went on sale
Todd Rundgren, Post Malone, Trevor Sensor, and Facial
Locals were disappointed to hear the August 28 Yestival at the Balboa Theatre — despite most dates featuring Todd Rundgren alongside Yes and Carl Palmer — would not include Rundgren. We don’t know why the ...
Bad weather coming? No, it's Steve Earle.
Underdog champ to walk Belly Up floor
He seems to own a measure of calm, but one watches Steve Earle in the same manner you’d track storm clouds. Long of beard, aging into his own vision of himself, Earle, 62, is like ...
