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Soda Bar

Warstories, Fawn, …and today it was you, Sledges

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Machine Politik is a post-punk band from San Diego, CA

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A romantic for the apocalypse generation, STACEY crystallizes the nostalgic longing of golden age pop records into lyrical refractions for the twenty-first century. Cruising from 60's psychedelic day-trips to glossy 70's daydreams, STACEY's velvet textures have received glowing press from the likes of Refinery 29, WONDERLAND, Clash Magazine, American Songwriter, NOW Magazine, Ones To Watch, and FLARE, while her iconic floral live presence has led her to share stages with Charlotte Day Wilson and Cameron Avery (of Tame Impala), and appear on multiple Canadian national TV shows (Global Morning, CTV Your Morning), international showcases in New York & LA (It’s A School Night at the Bardot, The Peppermint Club), and two back-to-back sold out sets at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum for the Christian Dior: 70th Anniversary Exhibit in 2019. Her songs have soundtracked over 15 different TV programs including Lucifer, Orphan Black, and Degrassi and her First Move EP has amassed over 1 million streams on Spotify. STACEY currently splits her time between Toronto and Los Angeles. Her debut full length, Saturn Return, is OUT NOW.

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Teal Pop (The Witching Hours + Vinyl Williams), Stacey, DJ Andrew McGranahan

STACEY - D.M.T.

STACEY

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Tunewave presents Urban Aquarium an Aquatic Album Release show! All artist proceeds donated to I Love A Clean San Diego.

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Arts Fishing Club makes their musical berth in Nashville, TN and travels primarily throughout the midwest and east coast. Their sound blends modern indie-folk (Gregory Alan Isakov, The Head and the Heart, and Jose Gonzales) with classic 90s jam bands (Dave Matthews Band, Phish, OAR) to create a unique take on acoustic rock that will make you dance one moment and search your soul the next. In addition to the above influences, AFC is often compared to Edward Sharpe and Ben Harper.

After completing a 1,600 mile 60+ show walking tour from Maine to Nashville as one of The Walking Guys (Google us!), Christopher Kessenich (guitar/vox) has been focusing on piecing together the members of Arts Fishing Club. He met Matt Siffert (bass) in spring 2016 at songwriters campfire. The two took to each others’ songwriting and began meeting to workshop songs. Then in late July, Kessenich was introduced to Peter Eddins (Keys) who landed in Nashville after completion of his Movie Scoring and Composition degree from Berkelee School of Music. The three began playing shows together and everything clicked.

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Arts Fishing Club, Homes at Night, Dori Valentine

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Death Cab for Karaoke - live band karaoke! Take the stage and sing pop-punk + emo favorites with a live band!

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Kainalu is a psychedelic funk recording project by independent multi-instrumentalist and producer, Trent Prall. Drawing influence from modern psychedelia and classic motown artists he grew up listening to, Kainalu’s unique sound has gained international appeal. Kainalu’s core is rooted in Prall’s Japanese-Hawaiian heritage; the word roughly translating to ocean waves, but more personally the concept of the ocean rising and breaking down the islands through time and the impermanence of life. Kainalu explores this meaning through both its sound and visuals. Joined by a guitarist, Joe Waldbillig, bassist, Evan Nelson, and drummers, Matthew Allen and Julian Russell. Prall creates a more jam-oriented live interpretation of his recorded music.

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Kainalu - Ginseng Hourglass Album Tour w/ Pink Skies

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Kassi Valazza – There is a cult-like fascination growing around Kassi Valazza following the self-release of her 2019 debut album Dear Dead Days and her surprise 2022 EP Highway Sounds. She is seated squarely at the vanguard of new American songwriters strengthening and broadening the sound of country music as she tours with celebrated acts such as Melissa Carper and Riddy Arman. The Southwestern native resides in Portland, a hotbed of songwriters producing albums that both bear the torch and bend the arc of American roots music, where she recently signed with Fluff & Gravy Records -- a label known for launching Anna Tivel and Margo Cilker. Valazza's forthcoming new album Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing is a spellbinding collection of songs that dangle like protective magic talismans, catching dreams and glinting light. She hypnotizes listeners with a sturdy, yet gentle, voice and painterly songwriting imbued with an independent spirit. Though her music plays country cousin to British folk, calling to mind greats like Sandy Denny (Fairport Convention) and Karen Dalton, a Southwestern American streak carves its way through these solemn, sweetly sung melodies like a canyon.

Julianna Riolino – knows how to capture and highlight beauty before it fades. On her debut LP, ‘All Blue,’ Riolino reflects on her own past, the memories of pain, healing, and love strewn through it. The songs focus morality and the stretch of time, seeping naturally into Riolino’s Americana-indebted songwriting, resulting in a golden and fluid debut.

Blending past and present musically represents Riolino’s own experience as well, the songs written over a period of years, their meanings picking beyond that stretch and pulling lessons forward. And in that process, her philosophical lyrics bring that complexity forward to the listener in surreally sweet melodies, pouring growth and healing directly through the ear and into the heart. ‘All Blue’ is out now on You’ve Changed Records.

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With comparisons to 90’s bands like Sonic Youth and The Pixies to modern day English acts like Wolf Alice and IDLES, it’s no wonder why the LA based quartet, CUFFED UP, have been turning heads since their debut double A-side was released at the end of 2019. The band garnered much support as an unsigned act first of all from KEXP, KCRW and subsequently from the likes of NME, DIY Magazine and The Line Of Best Fit.

 After the release of their self titled debut EP in 2020, the singles “French Exit” + “Small Town Kid” garnered much acclaim from legendary UK tastemakers like Steve Lamacq (BBC Radio 6), Daniel P Carter (BBC Radio 1) + John Kennedy (Radio X).  The band returned in 2021 with the brand new EP "Asymmetry" produced by Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins, Touche Amore, Liz Phair) and released through Royal Mountain Records (Alvvays, METZ, Wild Pink). The new singles "Bonnie" and "Canaries" have gained support from radio stations all across the US including KCRW + KEXP along with a subsequent KEXP Session in Dec 2021. Cuffed Up started in 2018 when songwriter/guitarist Ralph Torrefranca was inspired by the post-punk scene coming out of the UK with bands like IDLES, Fontaines DC and Shame. Sooner after he recruited his long time drummer Joe Liptock and bassist Vic Ordonez to work on a batch of songs for the new project. By the end of 2018 the band was born.

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Cuffed Up, STEVE, Leavers

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Formed in 1992, Cherubs emerged on the Austin, TX, LSD punk scene with a jackhammer of nightmarish, rhythm-driven song structures and plenty of Butthole Surfers whimsy and terror to keep things more than interesting. Fast forward 20 years later and the band has reformed with more energy and songwriting acumen then ever.

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Cherubs, Rid Of Me, Matelotage

Myself

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Vincent Neil Emerson is a torchbearer of the Texas songwriter tradition. He channels the straightforward truth-telling and resonance of his songwriting heroes in Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and Steve Earle into something fresh and distinctly his own. Where his 2019 debut Fried Chicken and Evil Women proved himself as one of the most reverent students of country and western musical traditions, his follow-up LP, the masterful Rodney Crowell-produced Vincent Neil Emerson, which is out June 25 via La Honda Records/Thirty Tigers, is a brave step forward that solidifies his place as one of music's most compelling and emotionally clarifying storytellers. His songs are cathartic and bluntly honest, never mincing words or dancing around uncomfortable truths.

Raised in Van Zandt County in East Texas by a single mother of Choctaw-Apache descent, Emerson's world changed when he first heard Townes Van Zandt's music. "To hear a guy from Fort Worth say those kinds of things and make those songs was pretty eye opening," the now 29-year-old songwriter says. "I had never heard songwriting like that before." He's spent the better part of the past decade honing his songwriting and performance chops playing bars, honky-tonks, and BBQs joint across the Fort Worth area. His first album Fried Chicken and Evil Women, which he wrote in his mid-twenties and came out on La Honda Records, the label he cofounded that now includes a roster of Colter Wall, Local Honeys, and Riddy Arman, is a snapshot of his growth as a songwriter and stage-tested charm with songs like "Willie Nelson's Wall" and "25 and Wastin' Time" expertly combining humor and tragedy.

These marathon gigs and the undeniable songs on his debut introduced Emerson to Canadian songwriter Colter Wall, who quickly became a close friend and took him on tour. With Wall's audience and sold-out theater shows on runs with Charley Crockett, Turnpike Troubadours, and many others, Emerson found his niche. "It took a guy from Canada bringing me on tour for people to actually start paying attention," says Emerson. "Before that it was a grind like anything else just trying to make a living." Crockett is another staunch early supporter of Emerson's and covered Fried Chicken highlight "7 Come 11" on his 2019 LP The Valley.

Like every working musician, 2020 pulled the rug out from under Emerson. With the pandemic shuttering live music and cancelling promising tours, he processed the upheaval the only way he knew how: by writing his ass off. "At the beginning of quarantine, I was really frustrated with everything else going on," says Emerson. "Everything was falling apart around me, and I didn't know what to do." He took to his writing shed and came up with the single "High On Getting By," a gorgeous song full of self-reflection and resilience: the most autobiographical thing he's ever written. He sings, "I got my first child on the way / And the bills are all unpaid / I should have finished high school / Got a job and learned to save / But the words keep on fallin' / And the highway keeps on callin' / To my pen."

That song proved to be a turning point for Emerson. "After I wrote it, the floodgates opened up for me in my songwriting and emotionally," he says. "Songwriting has always been a therapeutic thing for me. So, I just started writing more from the heart." Allowing himself to be open and reveal some of the most intimate details of his life was a scary yet freeing prospect for Emerson, especially on the raw and devastating "Learnin' To Drown," which addresses his father's suicide. "I've been trying to write a song about my father's passing for a while," he says. "I was just having a hard time processing that emotionally. Before I was always trying to find a way to kind of dance around it and not really give too much away. But there's no beating around the bush here." He sings, "Well there ain't much that lasts too long / All the rights that I took wrong / All the lefts that still ain't gone / They will be here / Here in my sad bastard song."

Elsewhere, on "The Ballad of the Choctaw-Apache," he sings of how in the 1960s the Choctaw-Apache tribe of Sabine Parish was forced to sell "180,000 acres of ancestral land" to the government, uprooting them from their home. Emerson pulls no punches in his narration of the historic injustice, channeling the essence of traditional folk songs. He sings, "Well you take away their home / And you claim what you don't own/ Well I guess it's just the American way." Emerson explains the track: "This happened not too long ago and it affected my grandparents and my family directly. I've always strayed away from trying to write political songs, but this is more about human rights. For those people who were stripped of their land like that, it's still tough."

His intense and productive writing sessions produced 10 finished songs over the course of just a couple of months, a body of work so personal that he knew he would have to name the final product Vincent Neil Emerson. These demos caught the attention of Texas country icon Rodney Crowell, who signed on to produce and record the LP. "Rodney is a hero of mine," says Emerson. "He wanted to make something that serves the songs, as opposed to making a record trying to put focus on production or the playing. It was an honor to work with him." Crowell had similar high praise for Emerson: "If he grows on the public the way he's grown on me, it's possible young Vincent will plant the flag of his \[songwriting\] forebears firmly in the consciousness of a whole new generation." At the studio, Emerson tracked the songs with a crack team of session players. "Because of them, we were able to get those songs in one take," he says.

You can hear that no-frills approach on the barnstorming "High on the Mountain," a bluegrass tune that highlights Emerson's versatility as a performer and depth as a lyricist. On first listen, the track opens with upbeat fiddles and blistering guitar feels, but Emerson's voice achingly sings of heartbreak, loss, and irrevocable change: "I pulled into Austin / 'Cause Fort Worth ain't the same." Opener "Texas Moon" grapples with home after so many days away on tour: "I been missin' home / But I just can't ever stay / Well it don't feel like ramblin' / 'Til ya take it day by day." Emerson is never overly sentimental and across this album, he makes a point to just say how he feels in the most straightforward and real way he can.

"I think I've always gravitated towards artists that are honest about what they're doing." says Emerson. "It's the most important thing because people have a chance to connect to a little more if you're telling the truth."

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Vincent Neil Emerson, Logan Ledger

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{RENAIDDANCE} : Beyoncé Celebration

Release the stress! 👏

📍 Soda Bar - San Diego

🌑 Sat. June 10

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RENAISSANCE \\ RENAIDDANCE is a celebration of Queen B's latest masterpiece and the ballroom🍯 , disco + techno scenes that inspired it. Expect to hear every song on the album and more!

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The self-titled album OURS, released in 2021, came out on OURS’ own label Cage Recording Company, the third to be released independently after several major label offerings.

OURS will be on the road in the U.S. in the coming months with an extensive tour, in support of their latest album, and to begin the presentation of their new album to come late summer. After this North American tour, Jimmy Gnecco will be in Europe to propose solo shows, and shows with his band OURS, in the fall.

OURS is the brainchild of singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jimmy Gnecco who has six studio LP’s and two LP’s under his belt and going stronger than ever. Gnecco didn’t hesitate to step away from the majors and the limelight, to put his heart and soul into writing, performing, recording, mixing, producing and calling his own shots. It was an insane process of going through 200 songs that I had written. I ended up recording somewhere around 80 of them.» Gnecco says.

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Neutral Snap is an up-and-coming 4-piece pop-punk band from New Orleans. The fusion of music styles & songwriting influences belonging to J.P Brown (Guitar), Joshua Latham (Vocals), Dominick Conforte (Bass) & Ray-Ray Boudreaux (Drums) is on full display at all times, featuring catchy pop melodies alongside ruthless breakdowns.

Neutral Snap stormed onto the scene in December of 2018 with the release of “Yellow Suitcase,” the first of three singles to come from their debut album. “Yellow Suitcase” would go to garner significant attention and positive reviews within the industry. Following the release of their second single, “Perfect Spiral,” the group would go on to sign with Orange Music Records out of New Orleans, Louisiana, and would go on to release their third and final single, “Bed Sweats,” with the label.

On January 10th, 2020 Neutral Snap released their debut album, Sorry, I Passed Out through Orange Music Records and Amplified Distribution. The album features instant hits such as “Butterscotch” and “Honestly, I.” On January 17th, the group released a music video for “Butterscotch,” filmed at Pelican Studio in New Orleans, and announced the 22-date Sorry, I Passed Out Tour.

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Neutral Snap, Townies, Troubled Minds

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Blue Worship is @snap\_ghost x @\_baby.brother. SD electronica.

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Valentine Byrne is a performer, producer, ghostwriter, engineer, and multi-instrumentalist with over 20 years of experience in classical piano and a B.A. in Music Theory & Composition from New York University. Her collaborations and productions have millions of streams across listening platforms with credits appearing on multiple Editorial Playlists including Spotify’s Top 50 Viral in the US, Fresh Finds, and Young & Free. Byrne’s unique live set features the use of looping pedals to create live vocal harmonies, languid beatbreaks and layered analog synths. She has performed at notable events such as Burning Man 2022 and Umbrella Weekend Festival and at some of the most well-known venues in NYC and CA including (le) Poisson Rouge, House of Yes, Arlene's Grocery, Rockwood Music Hall, Music Box, and The Bowery Electric. With clients in the US (LA, SD, Philadelphia, Chicago, SF, NYC), Russia, Italy, Brazil, and France, her work has been featured at the Tribeca Film Festival, CRSSD, and radio stations across the globe. Byrne composed, produced, recorded, and mixed her debut solo EP, Baby on a Wall, in addition to performing all instruments (guitar, piano, drums, bass, synths) and vocals present on the release. Enamored by the study of altered consciousness, her melodies and lyrics often come to her between consciousness and sleep. Byrne strives to express her search for purpose, belonging, and contentment through her writing.

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Valentine Byrne, Divina, Helena Holleran

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The notorious and prolific Cleveland cult, Midnight, have been slaying the metal/punk underground with their own, highly addictive brand of lust, filth, and sleaze dating back to the band's inception in 2002. Vocalist / guitarist / bassist / drummer Athenar has always known exactly what he wanted Midnight to be, and over the course of countless demos, EPs, compilations, splits and three full-lengths he has stayed true to his roots. Building up a strong reputation and a rabid following in the underground, the band's trademark blend of speed metal, black metal and punk rock, Midnight's most recent opus, Rebirth By Blasphemy sounds both fuller and more raucous than ever before.

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MIDNIGHT, Necrofier, Early Moods

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Necrofier

Early Moods

J. Navarro & The Traitors is a 2-tone ska band from Detroit, MI.

Half Past Two is a ska band from Orange County, CA.

Stop The Presses is a ska band from New York, NY.

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J. NAVARRO & THE TRAITORS w/ Half Past Two + Stop The Presses

J. Navarro & the Traitors

Half Past Two

Stop The Presses

Leah Wellbaum has never been afraid of her own humility or honesty. But she’s never quite examined it the way she has now with Parallel Timeline.

On Slothrust’s latest album, bandleader Leah Wellbaum pushed herself to try and understand her own spirituality on a deeper level, putting a lens on the core wound of the human experience, the idea that we’re alone. With Parallel Timeline, Wellbaum explores the feeling of being trapped inside her own consciousness while simultaneously searching for a meaningful connection to the universe, and all the mysteries it contains.

During the writing process, Wellbaum sought to connect with her inner child - a voice that allows ideas to flow freely and without censorship. Ultimately, it allowed her to find poetic catharsis. The album’s artwork and visuals reflect that ethos as well. For her, inverted colored rainbows and orbs became a gateway to exploring the illusory things we see and experience in everyday life. The iconography of this record explores the space where science and the whimsical intersect, and where the unfamiliar becomes hardly recognizable. She is a strong believer that nothing is quite as it seems, and that a greater reality exists beyond what the human eye can see.

In advance of recording their fifth studio album, Leah, along with drummer Will Gorin, sought to dramatically expand the band’s sonic palette. Slothrust put an emphasis on incorporating new production techniques and processes into the established Slothrust sound, resulting in an extraordinary amount of experimental demo recordings, many elements of which appear themselves on the final record. They leaned into risk-taking -- a freedom that comes with having been in a band together for more than 10 years, cultivating new sonic realms for each track. Leah sought to craft unique and calculated guitar parts instead of continuous bursts of wall-to-wall sound, and in turn delivers what will likely be considered a “how-to manual” for guitar playing in the next decade.

“On this record, I wanted to be even more precise with the guitar parts as opposed to creating a guitar palette, because a lot of artists, us included, have made songs that are so chock-full of guitar that distinct parts becomes a blur,” says Wellbaum. “I enjoy making that choice when it’s right but it’s the contrast of those things that I like to lean into. I strive to make the guitar sing like a human voice.”

Educated musicians all with backgrounds in classical, jazz and blues, the band’s newest work once again sees Slothrust leaning into improvisation -- something that in the past has lent itself to the infectious energy of their live shows. Parallel Timeline, mixed by industry legend Billy Bush and mastered by Heba Kadry is a masterclass in balancing tenderness with the fierce guitar work Leah has become known for. With a distinct yet unified sound that blends progressive rock, acoustic and pop, Slothrust has never been more confident.

The backbone of the 10-track record is Leah’s spiritual journey and presence as a guitar god. Opener “Cranium” features a blues-tinged guitar solo inspired by Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain” that is so expressive it sings. ““The song addresses absurd ways to love someone or something, and feels very on-theme with things not always being what they appear at first,” says Wellbaum of the track. “It also touches on tenderness being painful, which I think is very true of me as someone who has spent a lot of my life trying to be very tough.”

With catchy grunge-rock jaunt “Once More For The Ocean” and the slow-burning ballad “King Arthur’s Seat,” Leah didn’t have access to an instrument when she wrote them. Instead the lyrics, she felt, were channeled through her as she stared into nature, reflecting the idea of oneness that she was searching for. Inspired by both Scotland and Billy Joel, “King Arthur’s Seat” also “addresses this core human wound that will come up time and time again for all of us, which is the feeling of being alone and separate and not really knowing what to do with that,” Wellbaum says.

With soaring guitar-riffs and Leah’s twinkling harmonies, the ethereal “Waiting” further contemplates the idea of wanting to heal yourself but not knowing how. In the track, connecting with nature - in this case, birds -- is a balm. Penned with singer Donna Missal, “The Next Curse” was intended to be a “spell,” but it ended up being a curse. Flanked by thunderous guitars and Leah’s haunting vocals, the blistering rock anthem explores how even among the world’s destruction we still don’t take the time to take care of ourselves: “Earth's gonna set on fire/But still I wait.” Producer Billy Bush’s influence shines on this track with burly guitars, Leah’s haunting vocals, and a fantastic display of vocal harmony in a feature from Halestorm singer Lzzy Hale. “Billy has that perfect balance of someone who is just easy to be around, totally gets the joke and is available to laugh and chat, but also is incredibly focused,” says Wellbaum. “His ears are magical.”

Slothrust shines particularly within its softer moments on the record. “Strange Astrology” is a stripped-down love song dedicated to Leah’s girlfriend of six years that meditates on astrological compatibility. The hymnal “Courtesy” ties into the record’s overall theme of spirituality and desire to feel connected. “I won’t ask you again if you give it to me/I won’t say it again if you get it the first time,” Leah sings.

While the majority of songs were written pre-pandemic, “A Giant Swallow” was not. The lullaby-like acoustic track unites the record and serves as a roadmap for Slothrust’s previous work, referencing lyrics spanning as early as their first record. Recalling the sweet harmonies of “Courtesy” and “Waiting,” Leah reflects on her search for the unified space. “I’ll return to the ocean/Return to the womb again/Inside of the Mother/Won’t have any questions then,” she sings with a gentle lilt. - Ilana Kaplan

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Slothrust, Weakened Friends

Happy Together

Slothrust

Weakened Friends

Egg Records showcase!

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Egg Records Showcase: Lee Wires, The Fazes, DigiGurl, Oliver Slime, Krimson King

Hailing from the Gulf Coast, Andy Citrin brings a soulful sound with an edge. A dynamic range of high energy funk to serenades from the heart, with lyrics that could make you cry! 

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“Living in a world that wasn’t made for you makes you pretty strong and adaptive, and you find the fun in it,” says Alex Lahey. “It also makes you realize how absurd everything is. With ‘The Answer Is Always Yes,’ I wanted to get weird because the world is weird, and it’s even weirder when you realize you don’t fit into it all the time.”

It’s no secret that the world wasn’t built with most people in mind. For those who exist on the fringe, you learn to pave your own way, foster your own community, and create your own joy. As a queer person and a daughter of migrants, Lahey learned how to adapt to a world that wasn’t made for her, and her third album, The Answer Is Always Yes, examines how she finds comfort in the discomfort, whether it’s reveling in absurdity or turning towards exploration.

Lahey’s debut album I Love You Like a Brother and its 2019 follow-up The Best of Luck Club take their focus from the lens of relationships, but with The Answer Is Always Yes, Lahey analyzes her otherness through different lenses, from its isolating effect to the surrealism and humor it instills.

“Congratulations” is about the strange experience of having two exes get married separately in a short time span, “The Sky Is Melting” revels in the chaos of consuming too many weed gummies, and the title track jokes about the immortality complex of hybrid drivers. Lahey also delves into intense experiences on tracks like “Permanent,” which juxtaposes the accelerating gentrification of her native Melbourne with the regression she felt while living in her childhood home during the pandemic, or “They Wouldn’t Let Me In,” Lahey’s first song mining the depths of her queer teenage years.

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Alex Lahey, Liza Anne

Alex Lahey

Liza Anne

Chicago trio FACS have been perfecting their brand of intense, cathartic art rock over the course of four ever-evolving albums. Beginning with 2018’s Negative Houses thru 2021’s landmark Present Tense, the trio digs deep into the gaping maw of a black hole and pulls back whatever debris they can grasp onto. Their newest LP Still Life In Decay, which arrives April 7th, comes as an addendum to their last album— a “post-event review,” if you will.

When the guitar punctures the lock-step swing of first album single “When You Say,” it hits like a hammer. Case utilizes his lyrics like a person suffering from anterograde amnesia, repeating phrases and holding onto old memories in a desperate attempt to avoid the slide into oblivion. Freeform poetic missives touch on themes of resignation, cynicism, class warfare, and a search for identity and meaning in a crumbling society; A primal desire to hold onto anything in a post-pandemic barrage of sensory overload.

While FACS are a heavy band, they don’t necessarily feel like one— Case’s fluttering, melodic guitar lines are buoyed by the insistent, underlying pulse of an expert rhythm section. Bassist Alianna Kalaba, who stepped in for founding member Jonathan Van Herik in 2018, makes her amicable last stand here with the group. Alongside drummer Noah Leger, they dance and twist around each other like a double helix, forming the DNA of what makes FACS so special. Collectively they approach rhythm from outside the groove as opposed to inside it, creating a lattice where Case weaves guitar lines like creeping vines, making the moments on Still Life In Decay where the band locks in even more powerful.

FACS have never been more solidified as a unit, and Still Life In Decay is a decidedly focused effort. The apocalyptic chaos that defined their previous album is waved away in favor of an examination of events with cumbrous clarity. Recorded by Sanford Parker at Chicago’s esteemed Electrical Audio, Still Life In Decay will be available April 7, 2023 from Trouble In Mind Records.

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FACS, Dummy, Intermission

Strawberry Cough

FACS

Dummy

The Dirty Nil – For the strapping lads comprising Toronto rock trio The Dirty Nil, Big Bear was so much more than a convenience store parking lot they gazed upon from their second-floor bathroom window – the trash-strewn asphalt stage where seemingly every element of the human experience played out like a never-ending theatrical production.

The house was all at once a shared residence, creative commons, and god-forsaken pirate ship, its revolving cast of crewmates armed with instruments, alcohol, and overdriven amplifiers. Indeed, they lived, laughed, and loved there even though no kitschy wall sign from a suburban mom’s Etsy shop told them to.

“We were there through our 20s and having the best time,” shares guitarist Luke Bentham, namedropping some of the transient roommates that spent a few months under the roof with them – members of fellow revered Canadian rock outfits including The Glorious Sons, Attack in Black, Career Suicide, Seaway, and Single Mothers. “It was so conducive to creativity and collaboration. When we turned 30, though, it felt like time to spring from the nest, so we all put our separate plans into motion, and then I immediately started to miss everybody.”

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Daniel Romano's Outfit – are a Canadian rock band known for their high intensity live performances and sprawling classic rock and roll inspired recordings. They have been described as if The Who and Rolling Thunder era Bob Dylan started a band.

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The Dirty Nil & Daniel Romano's Outfit, Lowlives

Evil Side

The Dirty Nil - Nicotine

The Dirty Nil

Daniel Romano's Outfit

De Lux – are a 5 piece band from Los Angeles. Their 4 album discography is a mix of New Wave, Post-Punk, Disco and Funk. Highly energetic live shows accompanied by colorful and playful TV Feedback visual elements. Past festival appearances include Coachella, Bonnaroo, Treefort, Panorama and more.

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James Supercave – is a three-piece band from Los Angeles, returning with their first single in three years, “THE SITUATION”. Everything was written and played live as a band before they ever pressed record. James Supercave makes everything in-house, self-produced, self-funded, and with love.

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De Lux + James Supercave, Nite Lapse

De Lux

James Supercave

The Downhill Jam is a tribute to the music of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video game series. Based in LA, the group plays all those iconic punk, ska, and hip hop tracks you heard while obsessively playing the games in your youth. Better yet, they're Birdman approved. They played ramp-side while Tony Hawk skated at Wonderfont Fest 2019 in San Diego, Tony joined them on stage as a guest vocalist for “Police Truck” by Dead Kennedy's in front of a packed house at The Casbah San Diego in December 2022, and they were even invited to be on Hawk's podcast, Hawk Vs Wolf, co-hosted by Jason Ellis.

Where else does it make sense to hear Goldfinger, Lagwagon, Dead Kennedys, Public Enemy, Dub Pistols, Motorhead, and Millencolin all in one place? When you're flying through the air on a skateboard, avoiding evil Taxi drivers, looking for the secret tape...or at The Downhill Jam show! Come drop in with us!

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater cover band: The Downhill Jam

The Downhill Jam

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10-19 & the Number Men are 1--19 and his band of prolific producers/multi-instrumentalists: Joel Kynan (Magicpoint), Brian Scafidi (D/Wolves) and Sean Burdeaux (Paper Forest). Krautrock inspired prog-hop with the literary stylings of J Smith.

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10-19 & the Number Men, Excuseme 47, Tall: Shadow, La Boogie Buena

July 10th

10-19 - Sidewalk Sundae

10-19 & The Number Men

Fools & Fables: An Evening of San Diego Americana featuring:

Alex Bergan

Sutton James

Jesse LaMonaca

Justin John Rodriguez

Jeffrey Alan Berkley

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Fools & Fables: An Evening of San Diego Americana feat. Alex Bergan, Sutton James, Jesse LaMonaca, Justin John Rodriguez, Jeffrey Alan Berkley

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Annabelle Chairlegs oscillates between glitz and grit. A collision of adrenaline-meets-anxiety, Annabelle Chairlegs’ sound is built on desert noir, bluesy guitar riffs, and laced together with understated traces of psychedelia. Helmed by Lindsey Mackin’s thunderous, howling voice, the Austin four-piece churns out singular, reverberating work simmering with both dark dreaminess and ostentation.   Formed in 2013 following guitarist-vocalist and song writer Mackin’s move from Santa Fe to Austin, the line-up now with Derek Vaughan Nunez Strahan on bass, Nick Cornetti on drums. Since then, the band has been cemented as a ubiquitous presence in Austin venues, including sets at both Levitation Festival and The Austin City Limits Music Festival, while simultaneously amplifying their musical aesthetic.   2015 debut 'Watermelon Summer' offered an airy, gentle blend of retro-pop and psychedelia, like seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, while Annabelle Chairlegs’ current catalogue is a fierce, intense rock ‘n’ roll ride trembling with spooky undertones. They have shared bills with The Zombies, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Os Mutantes, Oh Sees and Lucy Dacus to name a few.

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Annabelle Chairlegs, Amerikan Bear, Windows

Candy Apple Red

Annabelle Chairlegs

PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999

A nite of 90's nostalgia, dreams, gin & tonic.

Live Music from the 90s courtesy of **10 B4 00**  
Wax Spinnin' by DJ LeGoob  
Visuals by Illuminati Telethon  
Food by Papa Focaccia

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Semi-Charmed Kinda Night: A 90's Party

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Soda Bar opened in 2008 on the border of North Park/City Heights/Normal Heights neighborhoods in San Diego. The venue hosts national & local acts seven nights a week. Notable prior shows with Angel Olsen, Kamasi Washington, Phoebe Bridgers, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Shakey Graves, The War On Drugs, Foster The People, Alvvays, Grimes, Parquet Courts, The Drums, Sharon Van Etten and many more.

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