PhotosMy first concert of the new year invovled catching San Diego’s very own Almost Monday performing a sold-out show in their hometown on a pleasant, mid-January night. The venue was the multi-level Music Box — …
March 5, 2026
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Gonzo Report: Almost Monday at The Music Box
Anna May releases singles like bullets
Alt-folk singer-songwriter Anna May moved to San Diego at the tail end of 2024. Her roots are in the northeast, but she has also called Durango, the Bay area, and Nashville her home. Small surprise, …
November 20, 2025
Gonzo Report: RFTC goes full Monster Mash at House of Blues
Rocket from the Crypt (RFTC) is so synonymous with Halloween performances that they should receive a royalty check every time someone carves a pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern. The final show of their initial run was …
November 13, 2025
Mr. Shadow recruits rap legend Ice Cube for "Certified G'z"
Jose Anguiana was raised in Little Italy and first discovered rap when he was around five years old. Born in 1980, he had been introduced to the genre by the likes of Run-DMC, The Fat …
November 6, 2025
Gonzo Report: Steel Beans' Jeremy DeBardi brings his high-wire energy to the Voodoo Room
Steel Beans is the long-running music project of Washington native Jeremy DeBardi. His story was a familiar one: a local act playing original material to thin crowds for years on end, churning through various lineups …
October 30, 2025
Rachel Hall to Mariela, Nashville to San Diego
Rachel Hall grew up in Mobile, Alabama in a family that loved '90s country music: Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Randy Travis. She started playing alto saxophone in fifth grade in order to avoid having to …
October 2, 2025
Gonzo Report: Fans help out Greg Norton & Buddies at the Whistle Stop
Husker Du is one of the few highly successful punk acts of the 1980s that never reunited for a tour. Any chance of the original members coming together ended after their drummer/vocalist Grant Hart passed …
September 25, 2025
Gonzo Report: Flaming Lips still on fire at SDSU
The Fearless Freaks is a 2005 documentary about the long-running Oklahoma City-based alternative rock act The Flaming Lips. When the film came out, the band was already 22 years into its run, but they were …
September 18, 2025
Gonzo Report: Prime Spoon and Pixies Lite at Gallagher Square
I don’t know if the Pixies and Spoon have ever toured together before their recent month-long jaunt across the US, but the pairing seems as natural a fit as jeans and a T-shirt. San Diego …
September 11, 2025