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Wyatt’s return. Teenaged blues guitarist Wyatt Lowe was on a roll three years ago when he and his band the Young- bloods played the House of Blues, Gator by the Bay, and Adams Avenue Street Fair. But in the summer of 2013, Lowe was yanked from his
stare at nature’s beauty and fig- ure out how I could expand my music and build my brand.” Lowe returns this weekend
with a new band and the revela- tion that there is more to music than just the blues. “It can pigeonhole you,”
admits Lowe. “I wanted to get the inside track
put a band together in a city of 9000. “You really have to search to find other people to play with up here.” He set up his own tours in
Idaho, Montana, Utah, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado. In April, Lowe and the Mayhem Kings released their first record, Songs From a Bottomless Well. But Rockies wilderness isn’t
all wonderful. “Wyoming has what I call
musical cocoon and classes at San Marcos High when his parents moved the family to Jackson Hole, Wyoming “I was devastated,” says
Lowe, now 18. “We were just
out of the blues niche. I spent the past two years in a secluded mountain region and started seeing another side of music.” Lowe says his band, the
Mayhem Kings, displays his
this survivalist mentality. It’s a little freaky. It’s a mix of Mor- monism and flatland cowboy nation. My sax player describes it by saying the people who live up here remind him of the Island of the Misfit Toys.” Lowe says he left high
school a semester early to pursue music and plans to move to L.A. later this year to network and study at the Musi- cians Institute. Wyatt Lowe and the May-
hem Kings appear January 7 at the Tin Roof, at Proud Mary’s in Kearny Mesa January 8, and he’ll play an acoustic set at the Vessel Lounge at the Kona Kai
Resort January 9. — Ken Leighton
Blues phenom and onetime San Diego Youngblood Wyatt Lowe returns to town with his new band, the Mayhem Kings.
starting to take off.” But the self-starting musician used the new environment to retool his music career. “I took my move to a
secluded place as a chance to
new wide-open-space concept that embraces Americana, outlaw country, roots, and rockabilly. “I use the word ‘Ameripolitan’ to describe it.” Lowe says it was difficult to
Dorkbot...is described as “people doing strange things with electricity.” It was founded by Douglas Repetto 15 years ago as a music and technology conclave in New York and has since spawned meet-ups in about 140 cities worldwide. Repetto, now director of the
Sound Arts MFA program at Columbia University, learned
much of his craft at Cal Arts in the ’90s under Tom Erbe, the current Studio Director at USCD’s Department of Music. “I’ve always been involved
and the Arts major in Music. “I learned a great deal from
Tom,” says Bray, who will be the first of a rotating cast of Dorkbot curators. “It started as
Erbe, who will be discussing his recent switchover from software to hardware and digital versus analog, as well as Elle Mehrmand, an L.A.-based performance artist and UCSD graduate who will talk about “organic sensors, wet interfaces, and using the body as a way to talk about how we have already become cyborgs.” The free Dorkbot event is Wednesday, January 13, at 6
p.m. at the Whistle Stop Bar. — Chad Deal
Locust guitarist Bobby Bray will be a curator at the inaugural Dorkbot event Wednesday at Whistle Stop in South Park.
in DIY electronics,” Erbe says. “In the ’70s, synths were really expensive but you could go to Radio Shack and build things out of fairly simple compo- nents. Then, around 1984, I realized that programming would be the way to go for building interesting, economi- cal DIY stuff.” With that recognition, Erbe
created SoundHack in 1991, one of the first freeware sound softwares for Macintosh. Erbe has been considering a San Diego Dorkbot collective for the past five years, but it wasn’t until he assembled a number of professors, musicians, and DIY electronic enthusiasts that the idea took hold. One of those enthusiasts was Bobby Bray, a 2011 USCD graduate who studied with Erbe in the Interdisciplinary Computing
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a mentor/student relationship. Now I’m curating him and I’m a teacher at a few different insti- tutions, so it’s kind of coming full circle.” Using software developed by
USCD’s Miller Puckette, Bray has designed one-of-a-kind effects pedals that he will be showcasing following Dorkbot. “At this point we have pretty
much every academic institu- tion in San Diego involved,” Bray says. “It’s academic, but it’s also just the right time for this city. We are strategically having the first Dorkbot event before Open Oscillator [an open- mic style electronic monthly] because there’s a convergence of people doing these similar things. It develops a commu- nity, and now it includes the academic community.” Keynote presenters include
Teleconferencing talent trade. Anthology gave Michael Pritchard the opportunity to establish himself as a talent buyer during its 2007–2012 run. By bringing artists such as
Natalie Cole, Wynton Marsalis, India Arie, and Michael Buble to the Little Italy venue, he built Anthology into a showcase that competed with Humphreys Concerts and the Belly Up. But for all the success, he
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says Berkson often wanted headliners who were way too big for his 272-seat din- ner house. “At one time he wanted
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