Steve on... Redd Kross guitarist breaks it down
It’s not often that you can chat with a 45-year-old who can relate tales about hanging out with the likes of Black Flag and The Descendents when both of those bands were in their infancy. That’s because Steve McDonald was …
New year, new disses and misses on the concert circuit
San Diego Getting Skipped: January 2013 Edition Every music fan in San Diego is all too familiar with the traditional skipping of America’s Finest City by some of America’s laziest bands. We all know the pattern: Play Phoenix or San …
What about us? The last slaps of 2012
A rundown of artists and bands hitting Los Angeles, but skipping San Diego this month.
Every music fan in San Diego is all too familiar with the traditional skipping of America’s Finest City by some of America’s laziest bands. We all know the pattern: Play Phoenix or San Francisco, hit LA and then COMPLETELY SKIP …
Bands skipping San Diego: November edition
Every music fan in San Diego is all too familiar with the traditional skipping of America’s Finest City by some of America’s laziest bands. We all know the pattern: play Phoenix or San Francisco, hit L.A., and then COMPLETELY SKIP …
Skipping San Diego
Every music fan in San Diego is all too familiar with the traditional skipping of America’s Finest City by some of America’s laziest bands. We all know the pattern: Play Phoenix or San Francisco, hit LA and then COMPLETELY SKIP …
Kickstart my art (but the band plays for free)
Amanda Palmer's business model causes quite a "kerfuffle"
In the current Reader, William Crain penned an excellent Of Note which detailed the 1.2 million dollar Kickstarter campaign ex-Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer utilized in order to fund her new album, Theatre of Evil. On the Reader website, Crain adds …
Lieutenant Facemelter: Major Air-Shredder
When the Reader spoke with Lieutenant Facemelter a year ago, shortly before the 2011 San Diego Regional U.S. Air Guitar Championships, the legendary San Diego–based air guitarist was talking quite the big game. So it was quite shocking when he …
The Case for Bass and How Japandroids Would Totally Be Better If They Had One
Whilst sitting here listening to the new Japandroids album, Celebration Rock, all I can think about is what I always think about when I listen to this band — why in the world don’t they have a bass player? Celebration …
Craig Finn Brought Some Guns to Casbah
Seeing Craig Finn without the backdrop of the Hold Steady was a bit jarring at first. I felt as if I were a witness to someone cheating on his wife. Especially since this "solo" show at the Casbah was in …
Words of Wisdom from Stephen Malkmus
Armed with rookie drummer Jake Morris, Stephen Malkmus and his Jicks returned to the Belly Up in support of their new album Mirror Trash. The band garnered a solid turnout for a Thursday night, even though the crowd did seem …
Blitzen Trapper vs. Dawes
When two throwback acts such as Blitzen Trapper and Dawes split a bill at Belly Up, everyone who missed being a teen in the ’70s gets a little Almost Famous for a night. Of course, no one in 1974 would …
Lieutenant Facemelter in Training for Air Guitar Championship
I met up with Lieutenant Facemelter and noted San Diego plastic surgeon Dr. Donald Flamenco to talk air guitar and dissolved faces. We chatted in a coffee shop 10 minutes away from Facemelter’s top secret training grounds just off the …