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Baja Blue Blues “Gone Away, Someday” CD and Tour Dates
If Chicago Blues is your style, catch the award-winning Baja Blues Boys in one of several gigs coming up in San Diego. But first, get their CD, “Gone Away, Someday.” Blues Lovers United of San Diego said: “This collection of songs is so refreshing and infectious that you never want it to end.” San Diego […]
Local San Diego Musician Jim Allen Wears Three Band Hats
With the advent of Facebook, MySpace and personal websites these days, anyone in a band can have a web presence where they can post sound samples, offer CD’s for sale and list tour dates. In the “old days,” when San Diego musician Jim Allen first started playing in a band, one needed an agent and […]
Local San Diego Musician Jim Allen Wears Three Band Hats
By Richard Cone With the advent of Facebook, MySpace and personal websites these days, anyone in a band can have a web presence where they can post sound samples, offer CD’s for sale and list tour dates. In the “old days,” when San Diego musician Jim Allen first started playing in a band, one […]
Beat Antiques at Belly Up Tavern Dec. 29
Formed in San Francisco in 2007, Beats Antique is the musical alliance of producers David Satori, Tommy Cappel and world-renowned belly dance performer and producer Zoe Jakes. Satori and Cappel both trained classically before venturing to locations including Bali, West Africa and Serbia. With extensive backgrounds in multicultural music production, they command the spectrum of live and digital instrumentation […]
San Diego-based The Beautiful View releases debut CD
San Diego based band “The Beautiful View” announce the release of the debut CD on Requiemme Records, “life is beautiful.” Full of insanely tight, angular, catchy jams, “life is beautiful is an album ready for the masses Listening to the new songs from the quartet makes you think “this sounds like it should be on […]
Paul Revere and the Raiders Ride Again at Sycuan
Paul Revere and the Raiders, who Paul Schaffer from the David Letterman show called “the greatest show band on earth,” headed by Paul Revere himself, the man Reno Gazette writer Guy Richardson dubbed “the Madman of Rock and Roll” make a rare appearance at the Sycuan Casino’s Live and Up Close series for two back […]
Netherfriends Does Nilsson” in concert at Tin Can Ale House
Netherfriends are a three piece experimental, psychedelic pop band, which originally began as a solo project for Shawn Rosenblatt, while attending Columbia College, where he currently is enrolled. Shawn recorded all the instruments himself and started being offered shows. He quickly realized that he needed other members to be able to perform the heavily layered […]
The Devil Makes Three Live Album “Stomp and Smash” CD Release
The Devil Makes Three, comprised of songwriter/ guitarist/vocalist Pete Bernhard, banjo player Cooper McBean and stand-up bassist Lucia Turino have released a new CD titled “Stomp and Smash” that is garnering a string of favorable reviews nationwide. NPR Radio said, “unplugged, yet intense, whiskey-drenched, ramshackle fury…” and WYNC Soundcheck said, “The Devil Makes Three […]
Mission Hills Guitarist and British Singer Perform in Five Local Appearances
Lovers of guitar duets, listen up! Through a collaboration done totally by computer file sharing between San Diego, and Rodmell, a little village in Sussex, England, Mission Hills finger style guitarist and arranger Don Strandberg, and writer/guitarist/singer John Dartnell released a CD titled “Dreams and Schemes” in April 2011. “Dreams and Schemes” has garnered considerable […]
Leon Russell and Stephen Stills in Concert at Belly Up
Stephen Stills, best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and the first person to ever be inducted twice on the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with both bands, makes a rare San Diego appearance in concert at the Belly Up […]
