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Dancing Strangers "Nightwalker" video takes a noir trip through Tijuana's red light district
Zona Norte, neon lights, ladies of the night, and cold-blooded murder.
Tijuana two-piece Dancing Strangers recently posted a video for "Nightwalker" from their January EP, Lost in Lust. Lost In Lust by dancing strangers "It's a song that was inspired by adolescent memories walking through Zona Norte and seeing these women …
Retox tour documentary: ten-minute preview
Featuring interviews with members of Melvins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tomahawk, Antioch Arrow, Holy Molar, Head Wound City, Regents, Dangerous Boys Club, and more.
Retox recently posted a ten-minute preview for their film, YPLL: Documentation, featuring tour footage and interviews with members of Melvins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tomahawk, Antioch Arrow, Holy Molar, Head Wound City, Regents, and Dangerous Boys Club, among others. The full …
Happy Mother's Day
Gaia and Medea, they're both mothers.
Gaia has a beautiful yoga practice, she harms not the earth with all of her green tech, and she is vegan to the bone. Gaia is “one of those” mothers--at least that's the modern version. There are a few archetypes …
"Encinitas Moms (So Hot)" - locals salute moms in songs
Mom-centric music by locals Wag Halen, Fake Booby Judy, Nicky B. Le Grand, more
San Diego's own Wag Halen sent over this salute to "Encinitas Moms (So Hot)," with a music video now viewed over 103,000 times on YouTube. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/12/45379/ “Encinitas moms are the hottest moms in the world,” said Wayno Wag Halen. “We …
The shape of jazz to come: Dresser Quintet at Dizzy's
Jazz should always be like this: exciting, connected to the blues, swinging, grounded in tradition while surging into the future.
When jazz is hitting on all of its cylinders, there is no more important art form on this planet. On May 10, the newest incarnation of the Mark Dresser Quintet demonstrated, in front of a packed house of vocal supporters, …
Jeff Parker Trio: May 14
The Chicago guitarist returns to Fresh Sound @ Space 4 Art with his longstanding trio.
Bonnie Wright closes out her Spring String Theory concert series with a bang on May 14 by way of a special appearance by Chicago guitar hero Jeff Parker's trio, featuring bassist Chris Lopes and drummer Chad Taylor. These three have …
Sixties Guns are a junkyard
Tijuana / North Park quartet hits the ground running.
There’s something going on with Sixties Guns. They’re too put together to have formed just seven months ago. The sound is too cohesive, the feel too natural. Their second of three released tracks, “Cuts,” is too prodigious to have been …
Jason Moran & The Bandwagon live at TSRI
Moran, bassist Tarus Mateen and especially drummer Nasheet Waits laid it down.
The May 8 Athenaeum Jazz concert featuring Jason Moran & The Bandwagon was a fascinating conceptual affair that's reach occasionally exceeded its grasp -- even though there were plenty of bright moments. Using his i-pod to play transitional material from …
SD Music TV is back
Free local music video service takes a hit and regroups
The update from San Diego Music TV's Megan Erickson: "As of right now," she emails, "there has been no recovery of any of the items that we taken during the robbery at our office/studio, but the investigation is still ongoing …
Madame Ur y Sus Hombres - Venada (Sleeve↓ Remix)
Liquid Geometry beatmaker remixes Tijuana cosmic cabaret quartet with spellbinding results.
Back in January, my buddy Hugo Fierro and I curated a show at Visual in Normal Heights with a handful of artists and musicians who had caught our attention during weekend jaunts across the border to Mexicali and Tijuana. Closing …
As I Lay Dying singer arrested for alleged murder plot
Police allege Tim Lambesis tried to hire someone to kill his wife
As I Lay Dying singer Tim Lambesis was arrested on Tuesday, May 7, for allegedly trying to hire an undercover police officer to murder his estranged wife. The band was scheduled to tour with Killswitch Engage, Miss May I, and …
Ben Wanicur: The Excluded Middle
The bassist's brand new disc features Ian Tordella, Peter Sprague and Charlie Weller.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/may/07/45158/ Although he hasn't been in San Diego long, bassist Ben Wanicur has been making waves on the jazz scene, and he recently released an album under his own name, The Excluded Middle with saxophonist Ian Tordella guitar hero Peter …
The American Jungle filming live at Ruby Room
Hillcrest venue hosts Hybris, Sub Killaz, and DJ EVLO for filming of documentary on North American drum and bass.
San Diego’s drum and bass/jungle scene has caught the attention of filmmakers behind The American Jungle, a feature-length documentary that explores U.S. and Canadian subcultures spawned by a high-energy, Amen-break-based genre of electronic dance music that originated in London around …
Uncle Junkie: rehabbed and ready
East County rocker Scott Frazier explains where he's been for the last couple years.
"I'm probably the most addictive personality you'll ever meet." A familiar figure is sitting behind the mixing table in a private recording studio in Casa de Oro, near Spring Valley. It's Scott Frazier, in white T shirt and jeans, wearing …
Valyrian Steel leads San Diego Symphony
The San Diego Symphony turned in a performance so epic that Game of Thrones should be ashamed of itself for being too trite.
I’ve been trying to come up with a way to express the grandeur of the San Diego Symphony’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. Let me first say that I thought the orchestra sounded better than they ever have during …
Question and answer at San Diego Symphony
Charles Ives has an answer for every question except the last one while the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto is technically brilliant.
On Saturday night, the fourth of May, 2013, the San Diego Symphony stood victorious upon Tchaikovsky’s mountain of pathos. The concert began with Ives’ The Unanswered Question which was structurally unique with a choir of woodwinds being conducted upstage by …
Dresser unveils new quintet May 10 at Dizzy's
Introducing new members Ben Schachter on saxophone and Kjell Nordeson on drums, Dresser, Joshua White and Michael Dessen pack a big punch.
Friday, May 10, contrabass master Mark Dresser will debut the latest version of his West Coast Quintet, which features new members tenor saxophonist Ben Schachter and drummer Kjell Nordeson alongside veterans pianist Joshua White and trombonist Michael Dessen. I had …