Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Little apes on a little rock in a sea of nothingness
Scoobert Doobert, Sorry It’s Over, Nortec Collective, Stephen Pearcy, Mrs. Henry
Scoobert Doobert
With a new single called “I’m An Idiot,” pop singer Scoobert Doobert’s current album Big Hug is the follow-up to last year’s Little Hug EP. “The goal of my Big Hug LP is simple,” he says. “Give my listeners a big hug. Because I write, play, produce, and mix my own music, I wanted to make something that really felt like this moment. We’re all emerging from our caves, full of fear, apprehension, and social awkwardness. I wanted to make a record that helped people get through this. It has moments of bliss and self-doubt, of anxiety and self-deprecation, but hopefully, it acts as a transformative record for a transformative time. Like, it’s kind of perfect that my song ‘I’m An Idiot’ was picked up by Spotify’s New Music Friday. It’s an anti-anthem for our post-post-modern generation, celebrating the joy of not knowing, and knowing you don’t know. I admit I’m scared, just like you. We’re little apes on a little rock in a sea of nothingness, in the midst of a moment that crystallizes and highlights our impermanence and futility. But, dude, we have each other. And after all, life’s all a lot better when we get a big hug.”
Sorry Its Over
Pop-punk rockers Sorry It’s Over came together when Sam Adgate and Louis Petrella, who have been bandmates since high school, moved together to Santa Barbara for a few years. Returning to San Diego, they decided to start working on original music. The duo was soon backed by Sam’s bassist brother Gus Adgate, drummer Freddy Barden, and Freddy’s brother Michael, who used to be in a La Costa Canyon High School band with Sam and Louis called the Borski Boys. They honed their sound in a twelve-by-twelve Encinitas garage, where they wrote several of their early songs. Their early 2021 single “Is It Cool?” was streamed free on Spotify, where they also sell downloads of previous singles such as “Am I Better?” and “Ghost Inside.” With over 200,000 plays currently displayed on Spotify, the band’s debut self-titled album, which drops October 29, is being released on Geza X Records. The label was founded LA’s Godfather of Punk Geza X, producer for Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, the Germs, and the hit song “Bitch” by Meredith Brooks.
Nortec Collective
The Nortec Collective merges techno music with a norteño (“from the north”) sound and cultural identity. The band’s 2005 album Tijuana Sessions, Volume 3 reached number one on the iTunes Latin Albums chart, earning two Grammy nominations, for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package. The group includes Fussible (Pepe Mogt) and Bostich (Ramón Amezcua), who have also been releasing a stream of work apart from the Collective as a duo. The side-project launched by Amezcua (living in Chula Vista) and Mogt (who resides in Tijuana), Bostich and Fussible, was nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award, for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album. Bostich and Fussible have a new single, “Convénceme,” featuring singer Rubén Albarrán, who was also recently heard in the Color Forty Nine’s animated music video for “What Would I Know/¿Yo Que Sé?”
Stephen Pearcy
Singer Stephen Pearcy has released several solo albums since and during his various tenures with MTV hair rockers Ratt. He has also been in the bands Arcade, Vicious Delite, Vertex, Nitronic, and Band From Hell. With a new solo album in the works featuring Jerry Montano (Hellyeah), the 65 year-old singer is plugging Nothing To Lose - A Stephen Pearcy Rockumentary, available now on ASY TV. “Follow Ratt singer Stephen Pearcy’s story from his childhood home in San Diego to the world-famous Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood,” reads the press sheet, “eventually finding platinum success and playing to sold-out arenas around the world.” Pearcy’s other recent solo releases include a single for “Night Flight,” a cover of Duran Duran’s “Girls On Film,” and a music video for a previously unreleased solo song, “Don’t Wanna Talk About It,” featuring guest guitarist Ferentinos, Mike Duda on bass, and Greg D’Angelo on drums. As for this year’s version of Ratt, it apparently includes only Pearcy and bassist Juan Croucier from the classic lineup, backed by Croucier’s solo band drummer Pete Holmes (Black ‘N Blue) and guitarists Jordan Ziff (Razer) and Frankie Lindia.
Mrs Henry
Formed in March 2012, Americana rock band Mrs. Henry is fronted by singer-guitarist Daniel Cervantes (Whiskey Circle, Howlin’ Rain, Creature and the Woods). Their 2018 all-star Last Waltz performance was recorded and released as a three-disc vinyl album. Follow-up concerts have continued to be staged locally, all inspired by the same Last Waltz album originally recorded by (and filmed with) Bob Dylan’s one-time backing group, The Band. Further, the multimedia Mrs. Henry web series debuted during the pandemic shutdown of early 2020, featuring live music, puppet shows, guest appearances, sketch comedy, and guest appearances by fellow acts on Cervantes’ record label, Blind Owl. A new Mrs. Henry full-length drops this month, Keep On Rising - Act I: The Sex Sells, Love Drugs, Rock N Roll Society, the first of a three-part rock opera to be released by Blind Owl. Cervantes describes the musical story setting as “an ultra-sexualized reality where drugs are available on every corner and rock and roll is a normalized way of life. There is no taboo, all is equal, nothing is sacred, and everything we’ve ever known is subject to change with the wind.”
Here's something you might be interested in.
Little apes on a little rock in a sea of nothingness
Scoobert Doobert, Sorry It’s Over, Nortec Collective, Stephen Pearcy, Mrs. Henry
Little apes on a little rock in a sea of nothingness
Scoobert Doobert, Sorry It’s Over, Nortec Collective, Stephen Pearcy, Mrs. Henry
Scoobert Doobert
With a new single called “I’m An Idiot,” pop singer Scoobert Doobert’s current album Big Hug is the follow-up to last year’s Little Hug EP. “The goal of my Big Hug LP is simple,” he says. “Give my listeners a big hug. Because I write, play, produce, and mix my own music, I wanted to make something that really felt like this moment. We’re all emerging from our caves, full of fear, apprehension, and social awkwardness. I wanted to make a record that helped people get through this. It has moments of bliss and self-doubt, of anxiety and self-deprecation, but hopefully, it acts as a transformative record for a transformative time. Like, it’s kind of perfect that my song ‘I’m An Idiot’ was picked up by Spotify’s New Music Friday. It’s an anti-anthem for our post-post-modern generation, celebrating the joy of not knowing, and knowing you don’t know. I admit I’m scared, just like you. We’re little apes on a little rock in a sea of nothingness, in the midst of a moment that crystallizes and highlights our impermanence and futility. But, dude, we have each other. And after all, life’s all a lot better when we get a big hug.”
Sorry Its Over
Pop-punk rockers Sorry It’s Over came together when Sam Adgate and Louis Petrella, who have been bandmates since high school, moved together to Santa Barbara for a few years. Returning to San Diego, they decided to start working on original music. The duo was soon backed by Sam’s bassist brother Gus Adgate, drummer Freddy Barden, and Freddy’s brother Michael, who used to be in a La Costa Canyon High School band with Sam and Louis called the Borski Boys. They honed their sound in a twelve-by-twelve Encinitas garage, where they wrote several of their early songs. Their early 2021 single “Is It Cool?” was streamed free on Spotify, where they also sell downloads of previous singles such as “Am I Better?” and “Ghost Inside.” With over 200,000 plays currently displayed on Spotify, the band’s debut self-titled album, which drops October 29, is being released on Geza X Records. The label was founded LA’s Godfather of Punk Geza X, producer for Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, the Germs, and the hit song “Bitch” by Meredith Brooks.
Nortec Collective
The Nortec Collective merges techno music with a norteño (“from the north”) sound and cultural identity. The band’s 2005 album Tijuana Sessions, Volume 3 reached number one on the iTunes Latin Albums chart, earning two Grammy nominations, for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package. The group includes Fussible (Pepe Mogt) and Bostich (Ramón Amezcua), who have also been releasing a stream of work apart from the Collective as a duo. The side-project launched by Amezcua (living in Chula Vista) and Mogt (who resides in Tijuana), Bostich and Fussible, was nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award, for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album. Bostich and Fussible have a new single, “Convénceme,” featuring singer Rubén Albarrán, who was also recently heard in the Color Forty Nine’s animated music video for “What Would I Know/¿Yo Que Sé?”
Stephen Pearcy
Singer Stephen Pearcy has released several solo albums since and during his various tenures with MTV hair rockers Ratt. He has also been in the bands Arcade, Vicious Delite, Vertex, Nitronic, and Band From Hell. With a new solo album in the works featuring Jerry Montano (Hellyeah), the 65 year-old singer is plugging Nothing To Lose - A Stephen Pearcy Rockumentary, available now on ASY TV. “Follow Ratt singer Stephen Pearcy’s story from his childhood home in San Diego to the world-famous Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood,” reads the press sheet, “eventually finding platinum success and playing to sold-out arenas around the world.” Pearcy’s other recent solo releases include a single for “Night Flight,” a cover of Duran Duran’s “Girls On Film,” and a music video for a previously unreleased solo song, “Don’t Wanna Talk About It,” featuring guest guitarist Ferentinos, Mike Duda on bass, and Greg D’Angelo on drums. As for this year’s version of Ratt, it apparently includes only Pearcy and bassist Juan Croucier from the classic lineup, backed by Croucier’s solo band drummer Pete Holmes (Black ‘N Blue) and guitarists Jordan Ziff (Razer) and Frankie Lindia.
Mrs Henry
Formed in March 2012, Americana rock band Mrs. Henry is fronted by singer-guitarist Daniel Cervantes (Whiskey Circle, Howlin’ Rain, Creature and the Woods). Their 2018 all-star Last Waltz performance was recorded and released as a three-disc vinyl album. Follow-up concerts have continued to be staged locally, all inspired by the same Last Waltz album originally recorded by (and filmed with) Bob Dylan’s one-time backing group, The Band. Further, the multimedia Mrs. Henry web series debuted during the pandemic shutdown of early 2020, featuring live music, puppet shows, guest appearances, sketch comedy, and guest appearances by fellow acts on Cervantes’ record label, Blind Owl. A new Mrs. Henry full-length drops this month, Keep On Rising - Act I: The Sex Sells, Love Drugs, Rock N Roll Society, the first of a three-part rock opera to be released by Blind Owl. Cervantes describes the musical story setting as “an ultra-sexualized reality where drugs are available on every corner and rock and roll is a normalized way of life. There is no taboo, all is equal, nothing is sacred, and everything we’ve ever known is subject to change with the wind.”
Comments