A couple hundred people gathered, sitting on the floor of a North Park church to listen to a solo acoustic performance from Seattle's Damien Jurado. Though not without a cult following, the half-full Irenic spoke …
November 11, 2016
San Diego-bred, Brooklyn-based Brett Uddenberg is a music journalist and freelance PR professional. In addition to his work for the San Diego Reader, Brett writes for URB Magazine, SYFFAL, Artlux Magazine, and a host of other outlets. He has covered festivals including the CMJ Music Marathon, Church of Love and Ruin, Full Moon and Northside Festival and interviewed artists such as WHY?, Buck 65, Jackson of Grand Buffet, Pigeon John and Dessa of Doomtree.
Aside from his critical writing, Brett handles in-house PR for indie label Fake Four, Inc. and writes bios and one-sheets for independent musicians across the country.
Articles by Brett Uddenberg
The Church of Jurado in North Park
Atmosphere casts its line at the Observatory
Atmosphere's tour began with a broken down van just outside of Saskatoon, but smoothed out quickly with a string of sold-out shows leading into Friday night's gig at Observatory North Park, which sold out weeks …
September 30, 2016
Yoni & Geti park the Testarossa at Casbah
Serengeti and Yoni Wolf’s second collaborative full-length, Testarossa, is a concept album speaking to the difficulty inherent in maintaining a relationship across distance, specifically in a profession requiring perpetual travel, and of the longing, infidelity, …
July 22, 2016
Chili Peppers' Getaway doesn't get too far
Following the commercial high-water mark of Red Hot Chili Peppers' By the Way, it's been a decade plus of funk-rock mediocrity from an aging band with a formulaic sound. The average listener's impression of the …
July 1, 2016
Open Mike Eagle and Serengeti join forces as Cavanaugh
For two artists who met back in the early '00s at Southern Illinois University and have undeniable chemistry as indie rappers with a penchant for exploring human sadness with wit and humor, it's surprising that …
January 8, 2016
Atmosphere: Beats, rhymes, alcohol & women
My last trip to catch Atmosphere at the House of Blues some five years back marked the last time I would see the enigmatic wordsmith Eyedea perform before his untimely death. Following inspired sets from …
September 11, 2014
Sufjan, Serengeti, and Son Lux are Sisyphus
The debut full-length from Sisyphus, an amalgamation of three disparate indie forces (Sufjan Stevens, Serengeti, Son Lux) commissioned by the Walker Art Center, is grounded in a thesis Sufjan relayed in a prerelease interview on …
May 9, 2014
Kanye West's Yeezus
Early reactions to Kanye West’s provocative sixth album, Yeezus, had some outlets calling him a revolutionary and others an egotistical prick obsessed with material excess and expedient croissant delivery. The reality may lie somewhere in …
June 28, 2013
Afraid of Heights, by Wavves
The first quarter of 2013 has brought with it strong releases from the likes of Jim James, Foxygen, Serengeti, and Atoms for Peace, yet perhaps none catchier than the latest record from San Diego pop-punk …
April 5, 2013