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Louis Petrella & Sam Adgate work with punk producer Geza X

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Thee Sacred Souls: analog champions

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MFTJ: Neoclassical prog experiments from Mike Keneally and Scott Schorr

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Lou Curtiss tells his own story

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

March 19, 2020

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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 ...

February 27, 2020

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February 13, 2020

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 ...

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January 30, 2020

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 ...

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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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January 2, 2020

Mrs. Henry, Jack Daniels, and Dr. Feelgood

“It was sponsored by Jack Daniels, who put up money and booze so we could do this thing, and as you can imagine that night was a whiskey-soaked endeavor,” says singer-guitarist Daniel Cervantes of Mrs. ...

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December 27, 2019

"Everyone thought we were sellouts" - the Penetrators' punk POV

An interview with Gary Heffern of the the Penetrators. What are your best, worst, and oddest stories of playing San Diego over the years? The best times were the early days, people don't realize the ...

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DJ GarGar’s unconventional San Diego band samples

“I made a new record with Talls from the KneeHighs that we’re releasing December 6,” says Edgar Alminar, aka DJ GarGar, one half of the Beautiful State. The duo builds multilayered hip-hop tracks from recorded ...

December 5, 2019

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Spiritual Motels: making sense of the world with Super Tiny Disappearing Oceans

“Our music draws from singer-songwriter, indie-folk, country, spoken word, and electronic influences,” says singer-songwriter Amy Day, one half of the Spiritual Motels. “Our sound has been compared to the Head and the Heart, the Avett ...

November 21, 2019

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November 14, 2019

Golden Hill’s Iacon Sound recording studio closes

The physical location of Iacon Sound is history. The Golden Hill studio that also housed six rehearsal spaces was shut down at the end of September after the building’s ownership changed. Their lease expires at ...

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October 24, 2019

Inspired by movies, Mrs. Magician’s Jacob Turnbloom releases first solo LP

“This is my first official solo studio recorded LP,” says Mrs. Magician singer-guitarist Jacob Turnbloom. “Started writing in summer 2018, started recording on October 19th. Ten original songs and one cover [Squeeze’s ‘Up the Junction’], ...

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Louis Petrella & Sam Adgate work with punk producer Geza X

Thee Sacred Souls: analog champions

MFTJ: Neoclassical prog experiments from Mike Keneally and Scott Schorr

Lou Curtiss tells his own story

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