review: Club Decades

[You Can Dance] Stripclub Goth by Reviewer Rob This location has history which for San Diego as a navy town that was developed after the big war is rare. A Portuguese immigrant war vet prize boxer, the late Horatio Vella, built it as a touring band venue dance/night spot (not a strip club) called The Green Onion in the mid […]

new music: LUNA DEATH TRAILS – RIDDEN COUNTRY TERROR SNOW

[Performance Art] new music: LUNA DEATH TRAILS – RIDDEN COUNTRY TERROR SNOW Friquita Francis, words & Marco Butcher, music. Recorded at Boom Box Studios, North Carolina, produced in Istanbul, Turkey, 2016. review by Reviewer Rob LUNA DEATH TRAILS – RIDDEN COUNTRY TERROR SNOW” is a big and bawdy new single track with lyrics that meander all over the emotional map […]

Americana Dance Hall

[Photo log] The Grand Old Office The Americana dance and music scene words and photos by Reviewer Rob One night a month The Office on 30th Street in San Diego (the classic old completely remodeled Scolari’s Office space, remember?) turns into a country-western honky tonk now and it’s a free for all on stage as local talent does their best […]

Arlo Guthrie’s timeless ALICE’S RESTAURANT

[Protest] Alice’s Restaurant Music Has Been A Way To Resist For A Long Time From The Atlantic: ‘The lyrics’ synopsis: On Thanksgiving 1965, Guthrie and some pals went to throw out garbage from the church where the titular Alice lived, but the dump was closed for the holiday. So he instead tossed the waste at an unsanctioned site, was caught […]