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Video:LIVE FIVE: Tributes, listening parties, and screenings in Kensington, Carlsbad, La Mesa, Little Italy, and downtownExperience Hendrix Tour at Rady ShellOCT 3Celebrating the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix, this year’s Experience Hendrix Tour features …
As we embark upon the first masterworks season at The Jacobs Music Center I’ve been thinking about my expectations. Apparently, expectations are bad and are destined to create disappointment—for the most part. Intentions, on the …
Angel Mariscal had a short-lived stint playing the piano when he was in elementary school. “The teacher would be, like, ‘Play this,’ and then I would want to go outside to play with my friends. …
Video:LIVE FIVE: Rock, reggae, pop, experimental, and bluegrass in Little Italy, San Carlos, Mission Beach, La Jolla, Midway DistrictSen K at the the CasbahSept 27Sen K features Eric Nielsen (of psychedelic-noise groups High Mountain Tempel …
The prestigious classical music publication, Gramophone, recently listed their 10 greatest Puccini singers of all time. There were a few omissions that raised my ire along with a few inclusions that made no sense whatsoever. It may …
San Diego’s Sandi King grew up the daughter of a trumpeter, the late Ron King, but she knew from a very early age what her own instrument would be: herself. “You couldn’t keep me from …
Video:LIVE FIVE: Music of all genres in Kensington, OB, La Jolla, Mission Beach, and Kensington/Normal HeightsSara Petite’s Americana Roundup at Kensington ClubSept 20Singer/songwriter Sara Petite was raised in Sumner, Washington, living a rural youth that …
Anton Bruckner had his 200th birthday on September 4. Though Bruckner wrote fanfares, his birthday came and went without one. Bruckner doesn’t get the love he deserves except from people such as me. I take …
Video:LIVE FIVE: Surf-punk, roots, world, 60s, and R&B music in Midway, OB, San Carlos, Solana Beach, and Shelter IslandThe Frights at SomaSept 13Surf-punkers the Frights were teens when their recording career was launched in 2013 …
“Excuse me, I have to put this fire out,” says Joseph Bursey, the doorman at The Tower Bar. I see he’s being literal as I nosily follow him to the corner of the building, where …
Jerry Flack’s lifelong devotion to music was sealed at an early age. “I was three or four and my father’s band was practicing in the living room, and they were playing ‘Day Tripper’ by The …
We live in an age where entertainment is fading. I’m not talking about the performing arts, I’m talking about Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Superman. These enterprises are losing money faster than a crypto-bro …
Video:LIVE FIVE: Beatlemania, jazz fever, rock funk, and blues in Mira Mesa, North Park, Solana Beach, Scripps Ranch, and Little ItalyWhitney Shay Quartet at Golden IslandSept 6Whitney Shay is a 2019 Blues Music Award nominee, …
It was 6:45 in the evening, overcast. A couple of sprinkles nicked me while I was on the ferry from Coronado to the Convention Center, but it wasn’t a bad way to travel, and just …
It was a bright and sunny day when a pop music revolution took place on a hallowed stage in Southern California. Local singer Zach Goode, who has taken over frontman duties for ‘90s alt-rock icons …