Blue Skies For Black Hearts by Megan Trihey Patrick Kearns arrived out of breath five minutes before 9:30, a guitar case in one hand and his girlfriend’s hand entwined with his other. He just finished playing an acoustic set down the street at Backspace. Ten minutes later, Kearns and the rest of Blue Skies for Black Hearts were on the […]
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band review: The Liaison
The Liaison by Natasha Jones Mixing rock and metal to the extreme, reminding me of the Deftones, Incubus, Brigade – those type of bands, now when they told me they were recording and the sound would be more ‘poppy’ it was obvious to me that youmeat6 would come the result, fortunately, or maybe unfortunately depending on how you view it, […]
CD review: DEAD AISLING
Dead Aisling by Megan Trihey Dead Aisling’s flawlessly melodic, hauntingly hypnotic self-titled debut album is an essential trip for music connoisseurs who have been begging for a virgin sound amid this year’s painfully mainstream batch of bands. The album’s first track introduces you to lead singer Adam Richmond’s forcefully gentle voice that will bite your ear one moment only to […]
pop art
Shepard Fairey DJs at Coachella The OBEY Giant founder and piratey Obama campaign artist who GOT THE PRESIDENT ELECTED will DJ at Coachella tomorrow! From his website, obeygiant.com: UPDATE: SHEPARD AT COACHELLA, THIS SUNDAY!!! Hey people going to Coachella… are you interested in good music, how abou cool t-shirts? I’m DJing Sunday at 2:15 and I’ll be tossing out a […]
suburban sea-caving
Point Loma Sea Cave Exploring video and frame images by Reviewer Rob Did you ever get the feeling that the world was sometimes a place of almost invisible magic and adventure? That just maybe, if you looked a little harder, you’d find hidden treasures that had been overlooked and passed by, and that there was an undiscovered realm right under […]
shows
show coverage Pustules photos and video by Reviewer Rob Straight from Lyon, France, bar band The Pustules brought their high-school marching-band horn antics to Ocean Beach and played at the Harp on Newport Avenue on Sunday, the night after grooving a larger crowd up the street at Portugalia. They performed a long set that included many recognizable covers such as […]
uk scene
interview: Enter Shikari interviewed by Natasha Jones Synth and Metal, a genre that has exploded since Enter Shikari hit the scene, with enough metal for the moshers to get dirty, but enough synth to relax the more fragile; I caught up with Enter Shikari on their recent UK tour where they were debuting some of their second album material, being […]
Young and Beautiful, by Fingerpistol
cd review Generosity You Can Dance To band: Fingerpistol album: Young and Beautiful Reviewed by Billy Bunker I wrote a poem in ( I think it was 9th grade) and the teacher called my parents in and told them I’d plagiarized it. I swore up and down that I hadn’t and ultimately she couldn’t prove me wrong, but I don’t […]