Blurt: San Diego Music News
Angels and humans, reggaefied: The two songs on the new Manganista single run less than four minutes each. “Human Being” dismisses the human condition with its sarcastic and sad refrain of “I just work here,” …
“Well, this just took a dark turn — yikes!” That’s Jakob Nowell, the guitarist, singer, songwriter, and frontman for Sublime — and the son of the band’s late, lamented lead singer Bradley Nowell — when …
Everybody has to start somewhere, in music as well as anything else. Eli-Mac, from La Mesa by way of the Philippines and Hawai’i, got going with the King of Rock and Roll and an old-time …
Before starting his San Diego life in 2009, while he was still living in New York City, Josh Weinstein released a new album every three years. But nearly 15 years passed before he released his …
It’s been fifteen years since Adam Jones made his debut at The Blarney Stone Pub in Clairemont. “One evening back in 2009, when I stopped in for a weekend nightcap, I heard another band covering …
Tourmaline is a legendary surf spot nestled between Windansea and North Pacific Beach; longboarders flock to it for its mellow break. So if you’re familiar with San Diego surfing culture, you’d probably think that a …
Peak Covid-19 was a tough time for Rob “Roob” Blackwell. “I, like many people, started struggling with pretty significant mental health issues during the lockdown,” Blackwell explains. “I have always had major depressive disorder, and …
The Belly Up’s 50th Anniversary celebration starts up this July with a series of specially curated events. Current venue president Chris Goldsmith’s tenure at the venue stretches back (on and off) to 1988. Naturally, he’s …
DJ Symphony, official DJ for GZA of Wu-Tang Clan, was born in New Jersey and raised in New York City, but now calls San Diego home. He became a DJ at nine, “many years ago, …
WHISKYGIRL sends their email answers over to me with a disclaimer: “It’s required by true metalheads to have bad grammar. Beware.” And they punctuate their stories with a liberal lacing of “Ha!” But any grammarian …
Rand Anderson’s parents were big country fans. So naturally, he rebelled against the sound at first, and embraced punk and metal. But eventually, he returned to the fold. He even played with the Phoenix outfit …
Blair Gun’s Joedin Morelock and Zach Cavor started writing songs together in 2020. “We had just met up and we were jamming with some different musicians,” Morelock recalls, “but Zach and I really connected on …
SeeYouSpaceCowboy’s singer/lyricist Connie Sgarbossa has faced down her trauma, her anguish, and her struggles to find some reason to live with remarkable audacity, honesty, and backbone. That probably helped her when she was confronted mid-set …
Owl Be Damned took its time getting out of the nest. In the late ‘10s, singer Douglas Thompson (Low and Be Told, The Marsupials) pitched drummer Ben Johnson (The Long and Short of It, Hostile …
Video:Live/electronic duo journeyed from South Africa to Ibiza to San DiegoFormed in Cape Town, South Africa in 2006, live electronic DJ duo Goldfish have since swum into the waters of global popularity. For a seven-year …
Degher and his daughter duo: “W.H. Auden said that reading your own poetry is like smelling your own farts,” says singer/songwriter, producer, and published poet Darius Degher. For some reason, I imagine the noxious fumes flowing …