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Musician Interviews
Spooky Cigarette's infectious intersection
"It’s a hardship to live but we want to do it."
Spooky Cigarette has just wrapped up a full-house set at Space Bar. The show was well-attended and the audience more than enthusiastic, yet frontman Frank Mindingall gives off little more than a sense of calm ...
Taz Taylor will drive trucks for rock
"I couldn’t imagine having a job where I’d have to be around other people constantly."
"I have dual British and USA citizenship,” says guitarist Taz Taylor, who grew up in England before moving to San Diego in 1997. Since settling in Imperial Beach, he’s released a series of guitar-centered albums, ...
Space Time to poke hole in San Diego bubble?
"We want the major art mags to talk about what is happening here."
There’s a time and a space for everything. At least, that’s the idea behind art-and-music collective Space Time, which held its first of many events at Barrio Logan’s Bread & Salt in July of 2016. ...
Adam Gnade finds love in this meatgrinder called life
“‘America,’ in the post-colonial sense, was a slaughterhouse from the get-go.”
According to Adam Gnade’s latest album, Life Is the Meatgrinder That Sucks in All Things, recent American history is split into two distinct parts: before and after September 11, 2001. The spoken narrative serves as ...
Paradox Effects — serious gear for those who play
"That's our robot," built from a streetlight, a heater, old speakers, and hoses
The workshop of Paradox Effects looks a lot like what you might picture when you imagine “Tijuana do-it-yourself boutique guitar pedals.” The low-ceiling warehouse overlooks TJ’s affluent Hipódromo neighborhood from the lower-class residential hillside of ...
No man is an island or sky except maybe Daniel Isle Sky
“I didn’t smoke and didn’t drink enough to keep up with my bandmates.”
In the early days of Daniel Isle Sky’s music career, which essentially started by playing piano for church functions, he still managed to make time to earn a degree in aerospace engineering. Soon, however, he ...
The Verigolds standard: mystique
"Technicolor journey that’s nearly impossible not to get lost in.” Zowie.
Having formed in 2014, the Verigolds are fairly new to the San Diego music scene. But the Pacific Beach foursome, known for their pastiche of ‘60s psychedelic rock and spacey synths, have made an impact ...
The Hot Nerds blend includes sarcasm
“Being inside your head too much is kind of what the record is about, just sabotaging yourself...”
"You’re just in time for the cupping,” Hot Nerds keyboardist Alia Jyawook says as I enter Modern Times Beer in Point Loma. Images of medieval hack medicine and bizarre sex moves flash through my mind ...
Los Santos has that '70s feel
“They say I have an uncanny resemblance to Ron Jeremy. But only from the waist up.”
"Our band members have a varied range of influences, from punk to metal to classic ’70s hard rock,” says drummer Brock Scott of power trio Los Santos. “I like to classify our music as straight-up ...
Haunted bossanova
Creepy Creeps, aka Creepxotica, getting busy in 2017
Even if you’ve seen the Creepy Creeps perform several times, you’d likely never recognize any of the bandmembers in public. The reason: onstage, their appearance ranges from dapperly dressed apes to skeleton faces with fezzes. ...
You can call her Babbalicious Neezbite
“The secret is puff pastry. But is it really a secret? A shoe would taste good inside a puff pastry.”
"I miss the ocean,” says songstress Barbara Nesbitt, who left San Diego in 2011 for the musical mind-meld that is Austin, Texas. Her new album, Right as Rain, debuted January 13, sporting production and guest-playing ...
