This pizza might consume your senses
Not-so-simple pies, cooked at 700 degrees on white oak
Ian Anderson 11 a.m., May 22
Of Note
The future is Robin Trower
Brit better at power-rocking than when he was younger and hairier
Three years out of a stint with Procol Harum, Robin Trower in 1974 released an album that would accomplish many things all at once. Bridge of Sighs introduced pop culture to the actual prison bridge ...
Tattooed Lady to stomp through Gator by the Bay
Marcia Ball's been playing it her way for a while
The pedigree is deep and jam-packed with true musical genius for this genre in which Marcia Ball specializes, meaning roadhouse New Orleans swamp boogie. It’s a music that comes out of another time and place ...
Diva Muffin and Moon Unit's brother minds his own business
Dweezil will play his dad's music
Who the hell names their brand new little baby boy Dweezil? That’s a rhetorical question. I know the answer, and so do most of you. Frank Zappa and his wife Gail is who. The two ...
There was Elvis and then...the Wedding Present
Chart-topping Leeds band rolls well-oiled machine into the Casbah
The Wedding Present is all about David Gedge: he’s been the one constant member of that band. It’s been 35 years since he and a friend plugged in their amplifiers and began making records that ...
The Richie Kotzen songs people love and expect
Dual-octave, scorched-earth-voiced Pennsylvanian says to expect a show
“Where’s that place in San Diego where they have all those little galleries and restaurants — is it the Gaslamp?” Richie Kotzen asks. “Is that what they call it?” He checks in by phone from ...
Pond from Perth
Nihilistic Beatles-ish punk psych band to lather Casbah
They’ll be here a couple of weeks ahead of the release of their latest full-length album The Weather when they next play San Diego. Pond is a band out of Perth, Australia, a gene pool ...
A swing-meets-bebop joint for Athenaeum series
Joe Lovano Classic Quartet — a band that honors the basic structures set forth during the Golden Age of jazz music
You’ve got to wonder about that mind of Joe Lovano’s. He wanders onto a stage with the rumpled demeanor of a grandfather or a favorite uncle and for a spell, if the mood strikes him, ...
Don't call him Billy Bob
"W.R." Thornton his rockabilly band the Boxmasters play Belly Up
A band with a couple of directions: one is old-timey country-western and one is swayed by the look and feel of the rock-and-roll music that Great Britain exported to the U.S. 50 years ago. The ...
Vaud and the Villains invade
The 20-piece ragtime act reads like demented dinner theater
“Your soul will be saved if you dance.” This is the motto of a large stage-band that averages around 20 members at any given time. Billed as a 1930s New Orleans musical show, Vaud and ...
Dirty Puppets get their act together
...play their San Diego debut at Brick by Brick Sunday night
A true tale of homemade music: through social media, Drew, a bassist, met Lucky, a band-less rock singer. Drew had a vision, and he shared it with Lucky: he wanted to start a combo, and ...
Big Thief's first Masterpiece
Brooklyn-based indie rockers set up at Soda Bar Friday night
Messy, free-ranging, raw-boned music that sometimes comes with an explicit-language warning. Big Thief makes music that hangs together on a thread of workman-like monotony, using chords in progressions that were hoary and predictable way back ...
