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Son of Sha Na Na meets grandson of Jedi Master

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Matt Smith is trying to fit 20 pounds of stuff in a 10 pound bag

Drummer Matthew Smith has been a fixture in San Diego for quite a few years, playing with the Matt Smith Neu Jazz Trio, Juice Box, and Fresh Veggies Micro Brass. ...

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Some Kind of Nightmare tours while Social Spit stays home

“I’m 64 years old with one leg. I don’t need any help falling down,” Social Spit frontman Cliff Cunningham tells me. He’s not spewing random trivia; he’s responding to my ...

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Son of Sha Na Na meets grandson of Jedi Master

Slack Key Ohana didn’t intend to release a live album. But the mahalo groove (aka the Hawaiian spirit of gratefulness for everything) held sway in the end. The slack key ...

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Heartbreaking and healing: Eve Selis supports niece Lauren Leigh’s solo album Ghost in the Picture

Lauren Leigh began singing around the age of five, accompanying the songs in The Little Mermaid until she knew them all by heart. Her aunt, local singer-songwriter Eve Selis, told ...

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Who needs Disneyland duels when you can Twitch?

Missy Alcazar took up classical piano at an early age, and was considered a child prodigy. Her teacher permitted her to practice only “the greats” — composers such as Bach and Chopin. But by elementary ...

November 24, 2022

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Long lost Steely Dan music surfaces

Time to Shine There’s an unreleased Steely Dan album finally seeing the light of day after languishing in limbo for 52 years. Its gestation and suppression is a fascinating tale of how Linda Hoover, a ...

November 10, 2022

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October 28, 2022

Lost local bands of the 80s/90s: Tapestry Blu

Tapestry Blu was a 1980s electronic pop duo, highlighted by the fabulous falsetto of William Gregory (who went by the French pronunciation, Guillaume Gregory) and Nick De Herrera, AKA Niko, a velvet virtuoso on Yamaha ...

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October 6, 2022

Dr BLT: found busking at Steph’s Donut Hole and in Cake’s “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” video

You might never expect a Ph.D, in anything to discover a passion for outdoor sidewalk busking. But for Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen — Dr BLT to the music world — it’s all part of the ...

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September 29, 2022

Farhad Bahrami brings a world of music to Grossmont College

A one-time resident of Huntington, West Virginia, Iranian guitarist Farhad Bahrami arrived in San Diego in the early 1980s, bringing Persian music to the experimental Trummerflora Collective and serving as musical director for ensembles like ...

Blurt Music News Musician Interviews Ramona Shelter Island

September 15, 2022

Songbirds migrating from Nashville to Shelter Island

When Arizona native Ashley E. Norton moved to Nashville, she landed an interesting gig hosting “songwriter rounds,” gatherings which featured groups of three or four songwriters on a stage. They rotated down the line, not ...

Blurt Music News Musician Interviews Paradise Hills

September 1, 2022

Tamara Hartfield Paige is running out of instruments to learn

Tamara Hartfield Paige, who is the orchestra director and department co-chair at San Diego’s School of Creative and Performing Arts, has been called a multi-instrumentalist, but that seems like a serious understatement. Asked for a ...

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August 11, 2022

Z-Matrix sees the future in singles

For each successive rockin’ out generation, the search for a band name grows tougher, as scourers claim all the common nouns. Hometown fellows Z Matrix were no exception. “It’s very difficult to come up with ...

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The yin and yang of Tim Rose

“I have lived full-time in my van since 2015,” says singer/songwriter Tim Rose, who frequently plays Mission Bay Resort and Estancia La Jolla. “I first lived in a little Nissan NV200 on Oahu for about ...

July 28, 2022

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Leavers trade skate culture for soccer talk

In late-2019, Daggers 86 was a band in its infancy. The initial seeds for the project were planted during a dinner Ryan Allen (Powerballs, Cedar Fire) had with John Mattos (Stewardess, Warsaw, Dreams Made Flesh). ...

July 7, 2022

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June 16, 2022

Louis Valenzuela turns Fakebook into Realbook

When Howard Mandel, President of the Jazz Journalists Association, emailed Louis Valenzuela to congratulate him on being selected a Jazz Hero by the organization, the guitarist almost missed it. “I didn’t recognize the name,” says ...

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May 26, 2022

Local teen Isaac Guerrero taps into secret sound of plants

Plant jam : Sixteen-year-old musician and aspiring botanist Isaac Guerrero attends San Diego Met High School on the campus of Mesa College, which he describes as “a college prep high school that allows students to ...

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Matt Smith is trying to fit 20 pounds of stuff in a 10 pound bag

Some Kind of Nightmare tours while Social Spit stays home

Son of Sha Na Na meets grandson of Jedi Master

Heartbreaking and healing: Eve Selis supports niece Lauren Leigh’s solo album Ghost in the Picture

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