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BTS’s “Dynamite” reaches number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart

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Wanted Noise: a punk rock plate lunch

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Charles McPherson dedicates Jazz Dance Suites to ballet-star daughter

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Whitney Shay’s drive-in blues

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BTS’s “Dynamite” reaches number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart

On September 28, “Dynamite” by K-Pop band BTS blew past Cardi B’s “WAP” and Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” reaching the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart. ...

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Wanted Noise: a punk rock plate lunch

Wanted Noise is a bit of throwback to the free-for-all attitude that bands such as The Minutemen personified. The execution of their songs falls comfortably under the punk rock umbrella, ...

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Charles McPherson dedicates Jazz Dance Suites to ballet-star daughter

Saxophone icon Charles McPherson unveiled his latest album Jazz Dance Suites on his own Chazz Mack Music label on September 24. It’s his 30th effort as a leader. The album ...

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Whitney Shay’s drive-in blues

Singer Whitney Shay headlined a recent live show (complete with a real audience) on August 15 in the overflow parking lot of the Del Mar fairgrounds. It was one example ...

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Claudia Gomez‘s sound showers with Trio Gadjo and Besos de Coco

Claudia Gomez keeps a lot of irons in the fire. She’s a musician and a tap dancer, and she taught at Tap Into Yoga & Reiki all over San Diego until just before the pandemic ...

September 24, 2020

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Selena comes to Rosarito’s Baja Studios

Netflix is reportedly spending $20 million at Rosarito’s Baja Studios for the new Selena: The Series show based on the life and death of Selena Quintanilla, the late “Queen of Tex-Mex” music. “The biggest advantage ...

September 10, 2020

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August 27, 2020

When the Go-Go's were punk

“They broke the building elevator trying to get a cow down into the club,” recalls former Pussycat Theater projectionist Dan Whitehead of the Masque punk club in the basement of the Hollywood Pussycat Theater, where ...

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August 20, 2020

Jefferson Jay hosts “Closed-Mic” night

By the time Jefferson Jay started hosting the Thursday night open-mic at Winstons, he was already an old pro. At that point, Jay already had a long history of running these events at venues that ...

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August 1, 2020

If sci-fi glam really makes a comeback, UNI will rule them all

A perfectly adequate little lipstick-n-laser glam rock throwback, UNI, just stepped up their game with a potent new track and video for "Debris" that looks and sounds for all the world as if it beamed ...

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July 23, 2020

Museum of Making Music Carlsbad nears renovation completion

Carolyn Grant, executive director of the Museum of Making Music Carlsbad, came to music early and passionately. “This involvement [with playing music] is actually the core purpose of my life. As an older adult my ...

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July 16, 2020

Peter Sprague digs his new livestream concerts

Jazz guitarist Peter SpraguePeter Sprague had just returned to San Diego from a Danish tour with vocalist Sinne Eeg when the pandemic struck, and the musician soon found himself on lockdown with the rest of ...

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June 25, 2020

The Gay Agenda party and pose their way past any shade

San Diego’s the Gay Agenda (the band) are so over “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.” They never left in the first place, they’re not going anywhere, and they’ll party and pose their ...

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Virgin and child, with Kathryn Hatmaker on violin

The delicate, and little practiced art of hooking up musicians with paintings, doesn’t occur to a lot of people. But to Kathryn Hatmaker, San Diego violinist as well as artistic director for the Art of ...

June 11, 2020

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LP and the Vinyl: Leonard Patton meets the Danny Green Quartet

“We were strongly encouraged to come up with a band name,” says singer Leonard Patton, discussing the new cooperative group he formed with Danny Green, Justin Grinnell and Julien Cantelm, who dropped their debut album ...

June 11, 2020

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June 4, 2020

What Elton John and Rebecca Jade have in common

Local music fans might have done a double-take while watching Sir Elton John’s performance at the 92nd annual Academy Awards ceremony of his song (which won an Oscar) “I’m Going To Love Me Again,” when ...

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May 21, 2020

Streaming with the Electric Waste Band

Friday the 13th of March capped off a week that most Americans will never forget. The NBA had shut down the remainder of their season that Wednesday, and the NHL followed suit the next day. ...

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BTS’s “Dynamite” reaches number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart

Wanted Noise: a punk rock plate lunch

Charles McPherson dedicates Jazz Dance Suites to ballet-star daughter

Whitney Shay’s drive-in blues

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