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Stones tribute Jumping Jack Flash has a Spinal Tap moment

Playing Keith Richards for a living isn’t always a rock star trip, as Young Hutchinson, from Stones tribute band Jumping Jack Flash, can attest. A county fair stopped the Flash ...

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Alfred Howard collaborates with friends to stream new songs

“We’re documentarians, and this year seems important,” says bandleader and record label honcho Alfred Howard, who launched a new 2020-themed streaming site, Alfred Howard Writes With Friends. “A pandemic, a ...

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Helix High’s Mike Benge teams students with pro-bands

Trombonist Mike Benge has been a director of music at Helix High school for ten years, and the 40-year-old musician was also hyper busy leading the San Diego Latin Jazz ...

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Zach Phillips is back with The Wine of Youth

“I recorded The Wine of Youth mostly in secret during the summer and early fall of 2019 at producer Gregg Montante’s San Diego home studio, after a 13-year hiatus from ...

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The Kabbs: lost and found

“We got lucky right off the bat as far as playing shows. We honestly thought we would just play house parties,” says singer Brian Clinebell, whose band the Kabbs was about to celebrate a decade ...

June 4, 2020

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Christopher Maddox: Dr. Demento got me started

Carlsbad’s Christopher Maddox aka the “Crisis Crooner” — Telematics Executive (whatever that means), husband, father, Elvis impersonator, civic booster, sculptor of online parody songs — watched the coronavirus creep through his Chinese business contacts; then ...

May 28, 2020

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May 21, 2020

Louis Petrella & Sam Adgate work with punk producer Geza X

“Louis’s dad had known Geza X for some time and sent some of our original demos to him on a whim, and fortunately he liked what he heard,” says Sam Adgate of how he and ...

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April 23, 2020

Thee Sacred Souls: analog champions

“Our commitment to analog contrasts the quick-fire nature of many other artists within the increasingly digital industry,” says vintage soul-inspired trio Thee Sacred Souls. The band insists on recording their tracks on vinyl and debuting ...

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April 9, 2020

MFTJ: Neoclassical prog experiments from Mike Keneally and Scott Schorr

“A lot of popular music in the last couple decades has been really vapid,” says Scott Schorr, one half of prog-rock duo MFTJ with former Frank Zappa/Joe Satriani guitarist Mike Keneally. “I think people are ...

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April 2, 2020

Lou Curtiss tells his own story

Yale Strom first learned of Lou Curtiss back in the 1970s. He attended the folk festivals that Curtiss held annually at San Diego State University. Strom’s father encouraged Yale to ditch high school to attend ...

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March 19, 2020

Buck O Nine’s Jon Pebsworth talks “third-wave” in Pick It Up! Ska In The ’90s documentary

Longtime Buck-O-Nine lead singer Jon Pebsworth pops up as a talking head in the new documentary Pick It Up! Ska In The ’90s. The film details the history of ska music while concentrating on the ...

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February 27, 2020

Rookie Card: four more years

“Since our last Leap Year show in 2016 at the Whistle Stop, we’ve only played a couple of sets in a Carlsbad park for a friend’s picnic,” says Adam Gimbel of Rookie Card’s tendency to ...

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Psychotic Waltz: nearly as big as David Hasselhoff

“The band was over, obituary written, done,” says Psychotic Waltz bassist Ward Evans. “It stayed that way from 1997 to 2008 or so. There was minimal contact between any of us during that time. Everyone ...

February 13, 2020

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Belladon’s last show with Anastasya

“One side will have all our dream pop songs, and the other has our gothy nasty ’80s songs,” says Belladon’s Aimee Jacobs of the band’s upcoming Dreaming/Dreading EP. “Both sides will have a collection of ...

January 30, 2020

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January 16, 2020

Big in Spain: The Loons and The Rosalyns rock León

San Diego acts remain big in Spain, a longstanding trend that arguably kicked off when the Zeros stormed out of Chula Vista in the late 70s. The influential punk band has a new single on ...

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January 2, 2020

Oceanside's first public painted piano

“I guess I am the force behind the Oceanside Art Piano Project,” admits musician Robert Parker, about the intricately hand-painted piano that now calls the Oceanside Museum of Art its home. “But it’s a collaboration ...

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Stones tribute Jumping Jack Flash has a Spinal Tap moment

Alfred Howard collaborates with friends to stream new songs

Helix High’s Mike Benge teams students with pro-bands

Zach Phillips is back with The Wine of Youth

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