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I spent this week at The Big Sur Lodge in the Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park. My kids and I wandered along the scenic coastline, trekked through the redwoods, and skipped rocks in the river. How …
“Are you a swing dancer?” asks the woman from a table adjacent to mine. She smiles, verifying that the question is indeed intended for me. I tell her no, I’m a writer, but this doesn’t …
PunchCard’s Chris Vanoli left the Bay Area and moved to San Diego in the mid-2000s. He was following the lead of his brother Mike, who had made the same transition about a year prior. Chris …
The Tourmaliners at Humphreys Backstage Music ClubAugust 14The Tourmaliners are fronted by Deven Berryhill, the son of Bob Berryhill, founding member and guitarist of the 1960s surf rock group the Surfaris. An Orange County native, …
Here we are, at the end of summer, for all intents and purposes. For me, that means pre-season NFL games. I’m like most NFL fans. I want a hero to arise, usually at the quarterback …
The long-running indie/roots band Dispatch made a stop at SDSU’s Open Air Theatre on a Thursday night in late July. With three openers in tow — John Butler and band/G. Love and Special Sauce/Donavon Frankenreiter …
Dead Rock West at the CasbahAugust 7Frank Lee Drennen's band Dead Rock West formed in 1992, while the singer/songwriter/guitarist was still in Gregory Page's project the Hatchet Brothers and his own group Loam. Co-singer Cindy …
“He did ask that we record the album naked, which was a strange request,” says Chris Cote, regarding the recent sessions with his band SUNBENDR at Tom DeLonge’s home studio. This reporter took “naked” to …
Opera, a vibrant fusion of music, drama, and visual spectacle, has entertained audiences for centuries. Its power lies in its ability to convey human emotions through profound music while employing basic storytelling. The basic storytelling …
Shaggy — government name Orville Richard Burrell — hits the stage any way he wants, as befits a man who’s slung discs like griddlecakes and rocked crowds in the five and even six digits. (He …
“Every time we work with an outside company, I have to keep them from trying to steal our sound guy,” says Luke Harmon, Director of Entertainment Operations at the Training, Education & Resource Institute (TERI) …
Geezer at Music BoxAugust 1The Music Box presents Saved By the '90s, this month featuring San Diego’s own senior citizen sendup Geezer, who pretty much sum up their act with the track “We Ain’t No …
Round about this time of year, I usually start thinking about checking in on The Bayreuth Festival — the annual bending of the knee to the controversial composer Richard Wagner. But as I thought about …
“He’s staring at your ice cream,” says a woman working the information booth at the Julian Town Square Music Festival. This by way of explaining her husband’s hungry stare in my direction. I can’t blame …
“We just wanted our music back,” says Justin Pearson (Swing Kids, The Locust, Deaf Club). Founded in 2008, Pearson’s band All Leather originally released their debut EP Hung Like a Horse through Los Angeles-based Dim Mak …