New band, new video, first show, this Friday.

Breakout band Champ just posted a live video for their track “Not a Lot to Lose.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyY2Cljyn_s Catch their debut this Friday, September 6 with fellow first-timers Diatribes at Soda Bar. Read/listen more on Champ and Diatribes here.

Tijuana music festival draws acts from across Mexico and as far as Chile, LA, and Estonia.

Last Wednesday, All My Friends Music Festival announced the lineup to this year’s installment, which will be held on Saturday, November 16 at Casa de la Cultura in Tijuana (Av. París y Lisboa 5 - Altamira). Headliners include Chilean rockers …

Mike Peters / The Alarm, Big Country: In 1984 Peters was on a U.S. tour opening for the Pretenders. “I shouted ‘San Diego I want to hear you sing’ and got nothing from the crowd,” Peters recalled. “So I said …

Bonnie Wright's first concert at Bread & Salt features the cellist from the Calder Quartet.

Concert promoter Bonnie Wright kicks off her Fresh Sound Fall series on September 13 at a brand new venue, Bread & Salt (1955 Julian Ave) with a solo cello and electronics performance by Eric Byers. Byers will be using a …

KGB FM counts 38 years of a public spectacle they call Sky Show

"I sat in my room, and I listened to the music on the radio and I heard the fire works in the background." It's Coe Lewis, one half of the KGB FM morning show team on the phone to talk …

The spectral sounds of borderland will be showcased at La Bodega Aragon in Tijuana.

Borderland Baja is kind of a weird place. From the infernal desert expanses of Mexicali to the sacred hills of Tecate to the industrial wastelands and afterhours avenues of Tijuana, something supernatural lurks beneath the surface – beckoning from the …

With flutist Nicole Mitchell, pianist Myra Melford and trombonist Michael Dessen, Dresser presented "Sound and Image" at the SD Museum of Art.

Mark Dresser's final concert at the San Diego Museum of Art on August 29, was an ambitious and virtuosic affair -- combining the musical talents of Nicole Mitchell's flute, Myra Melford's piano, Michael Dessen's trombone, the leader's sonically expansive contrabass …

Rock and blues twosome treat fans to a free download.

Rambling rock and blues duo Little Hurricane recently posted an album’s worth of cover songs for stream and free download. Stay Classy (A Collection of Cover Songs) by little hurricane A nod to their San Diego roots, Stay Classy features …

From the cutting edge to multiple musician tributes, there's a lot of jazz happening.

Looks like another busy week in San Diego jazz, with something for just about everyone. Here are some prime picks: Aug. 29: Mark Dresser presents "Sound and Image" The bassist concludes his San Diego Museum of Art residency with a …

San Diego thrash and hardcore powerhouse teams up with French electro outfit for new EP.

This teaser just dropped for the ill Saint M featuring Justin Pearson EP A Pig’s Orphan, set to be released via Three One G records on September 24. Refresh browser if Soundcloud embed does not load. The album includes remixes …

Art passage hosts all-day open galleries, workshops, and live music.

Pasaje Gomez (located next to Hotel Lafayette between Third and Fourth streets on the east side of Revolución) is hosting the Tijuana Art Walk on Saturday, September 14 from noon to midnight. “[The art walk] was born with the idea …

Courtney Love performed a sold out show at the Belly Up Tavern August 25.

A capacity crowd greeted Courtney Love at the Belly Up Tavern on August 25, the twentieth show since she began her current tour on June 20. The night was opened promptly at 9 p.m. by Ginger Wildheart who played a …

A pair of locals takes five, and then comes back, but for vastly different reasons

Note: This story originally appeared in the street edition of the SD Reader. It was edited do to the word count restrictions of print. What follows here are my original conversations with Lafayette and Stoney B, each recorded on separate …

Ian Tordella, Justin Grinnell and Kevin Higuchi played the first set, Joshua White, Mark Dresser and Danny Campbell wrapped it up.

San Diego tenor saxophonist Ian Tordella has been organizing these "double-trio" evenings for the better part of the year now, but the August 24 hit at Dizzy's might just be impossible to top. For his part, the hornman unveiled a …

Members of Hills Like Elephants and River City rearrange and multiply.

Two nascent newcomers will be headlining the bill at Soda Bar (3615 El Cajon Boulevard - City Heights) on Friday, September 6. Diatribes will be making their debut following the release of their first single, “Hand Book for the Blind,” …

Relaxed and very loose, Marillo keeps creating.

Tenor saxophonist Joe Marillo has been a San Diego jazz institution since the 1970's and he continues to carry the torch into his august years as he demonstrated on 08/23, in celebration of his recently departed friend, Gary LeFebvre at …

Six contrabasses in one concert? Mark Dresser made it happen.

"Bass is the Space," was the operating theme for Mark Dresser's Aug 22 performance at the SD Museum of Art, as the virtuoso musician invited five other bassists to join him in various groupings to celebrate a different sort of …

Mission Hills record store celebrates with Monochromacy and Bonsoir.

To celebrate the first ever International Cassette Store Day, general manager Rick Tyner has invited a few local tape purveyors to participate at M-Theory Music on Saturday, September 7. Loathe-drone experimentalists Monochromacy will be doing an in-store performance at 3 …

TJ garage punks debut documentary at Casa de la Cultura.

Tijuana lo-fi garage quartet San Pedro el Cortez have been all over the place lately, playing dates everywhere from Mexico City to Kensington. (Refresh your browser if Soundcloud embed does not appear.) Most recently, they’ve been hitting up key cities …

Dresser will team with five other bass players to explore the low end possibilities.

Contrabassist Mark Dresser continues his Thursday evening residency at the San Diego Museum of Art on August 22, at 7 pm with a show featuring six bassists in various configurations, including bass legend Bert Turetzky, and Joe McNalley, who is …