Big blue whales surface in San Diego
Four-hour tours on the 9 Mile Bank
Daniel Powell 9 a.m., June 29
Andrew Hamlin
Articles by Andrew Hamlin
From the X-rated Jolar Arcade to the Belly Up
Gary Wilson will be rolling around in flour, paint, and duct tape
He may not be a native, but Gary Wilson — singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, collector of alien sunglasses, secret-agent lounge musician fetishist of flour and paint — must rank at the top of San Diego music ...
Tinariwen — from a Moroccan oasis
Grammy-winners play Belly Up with Dengue Fever Thursday night
Tinariwen’s founder, Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, watched the execution of his father, a rebel in the 1963 Mali uprising. A few years later he found musical inspiration in a film, The Fastest Guitar Alive, starring Roy ...
Modern English melts fantastic
English new wave group tours through town behind their latest, Take Me To The Trees
Modern English will always be “I Melt with You” to America — an essential ’80s love song that singer Robbie Grey once admitted is about sex during nuclear war. They’re back with a new album, ...
H.P. Lovecraft churned out fiends
Fungi From Yuggoth and Other Poems read by William E. Hart
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) lived whenever possible in Providence, Rhode Island (although a short-lived marriage dragged him scraping and screeching to NYC for a jaunt). He grated through poverty, obscurity, frustration, nursing his personal obsessions ...
High school survivalists the Regrettes
With a Warner Brothers record deal, no regrets for these four teens
They’re too young to hold office and at least two of them can’t vote, but the Regrettes, four teens pushing back against conventional notions of beauty, status, and worth, have a Warner Brothers recording contract, ...
Sprinkle Stephen Pearcy over Southern California
The Ratt frontman is back with solo Smash...and suggests Ratt may be right behind him
Back to work on Ratt and related projects, singer Stephen Pearcy celebrates the release of a new solo album, Smash, on January 27. The former San Diegan took some questions from L.A. Been back to ...
Tour Italy with Keith Jarrett
Multi-disc Multitude of Angels offers the piano mans final solo tour
“Over the Rainbow” would be the last piece he’d play in public for a few years. As he remarks in his liner notes, he was already sick when he did these concerts. He didn’t know ...
Mr. Robinson's frontier spirit
Psych-n-blues-rock band Chris Robinson Brotherhood takes the stage at the Observatory on Friday
Ex–Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson brings the Chris Robinson Brotherhood to the Observatory North Park on December 16. In between the phone signal cutting out in Appalachia, he took some questions. Where am I reaching ...
Pansy Division's Chris Freeman on Beatles, Kiss, and Trump
Soundtrack of my life
Out-and-proud punk-poppers Pansy Division hit Soda Bar November 4. Co-founder Chris Freeman took some email queries. What are the band’s most memorable San Diego gigs? “Opening for Green Day at the Sports Arena on Halloween ...
