62 San Diego Reader January 7, 2016
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Kraken: Wednesday, 8pm — Sonny Derin & the Derringers
Landing: Saturday, 6pm — Brown Sugar
Lestat’s Coffee House: Thursday, 7:30pm — Kilo & the Dew and the Other Half Saturday, 7:30pm — Zolopht, Fracelle, Lauren Ruth Sunday, 7:30pm — The Hill in Mind and Podunk Nowhere
Loft: Friday, 7:30pm — Mal’Akh Ensemble: Animalik
Main Tap Tavern: Saturday, 9pm — Black Market III
Manhattan Cocktail Lounge: Saturday, 8pm — West Of 5
McP’s Irish Pub and Grill: Friday, 9pm — Flipside Burners Sunday, 4pm — Flipside Burners
Mike Hess Brewing North Park:
Wednesday, 6pm — On the Radar
Molly Malone’s: Friday, 9pm — Outta Line Saturday, 9pm — Ron Shumate
Mr. Peabody’s Bar & Grill: Thursday, 8:30pm — Kng Mkr and No Kings Friday, 9pm — Mirage Saturday, 3:30pm — Adrienne Nims & Spirit Wind
Museum of Making Music: Saturday, 7pm — Learn to Taiko
Music Box: Thursday, 7pm — Full Strength Funk Band Friday, 9pm — Soul Review with Stephen Rey Sextet Saturday, 9pm — Queen Nation Wednesday, 8pm — Dave Mason
Mystic Mocha: Saturday, 10am — Tennessee Tina
Nate’s Garden Grill: Thursday, 6pm — Robin Henkel Friday, 6pm — Gregory Martin Campbell Saturday, 6pm — Jim Earp Sunday, 1pm — Don Howell Tuesday, 6pm — Kyle Blase Wednesday, 6pm — Missy & Heine Andersen
Navajo Live: Friday, 8pm — Steal Dawn Saturday, 8pm — Rattz
Old Town Temecula Community Theater: Wednesday, 7:30pm — Brittni Paiva and Casey Turner
EVERYONE’S A CRITIC
Into The Air Cold Beat By Emily Reily
After a strong showing with their debut LP Over Me last year, punk/electro- pop band Cold Beat is back with Into the Air. Already, the band seems in sync, a feat that could take more than a few albums for a new group to master before they start pushing personal boundaries. Bassist/vocalist/
primary songwriter Hannah Lew, previ- ously with the San Francisco surf-rock trio Grass Widow, carries the weight of Cold Beat’s vocals. Her strong yet angelic sound acts
Omnia San Diego: Thursday, 8pm — WEARETREO Friday, 9pm — Jesse Marco
Osetra Watergrill: Saturday, 8pm — Tiffany Jane & the Kicks
Pacific Beach Library: Wednesday, 7pm — Fred Benedetti Trio
Panama 66: Saturday, 7pm — Abstrack
Park & Rec: Thursday, 6pm — Whitney Rhea Friday, 9pm — Manchest & Her Saturday, 8pm — BedBreakers
Patricks Gaslamp Pub: Monday, 8pm — The Groove Squad
Pounders: Friday, 8pm, Saturday, 8pm — Josie Day
Proud Mary’s Southern Bar & Grill at the Ramada: Saturday, 7pm — Charles Burton Blues Band
Ramona Mainstage Nightclub:
as a guiding light for the album’s dark points. Add the rest of the band’s playful pop-synth style, and Cold Beat can embody the punk-crossover rebel- lion of Blondie or the bleeding-heart shoegaze of Dum Dum Girls. Lew’s lush voice soars throughout the album — it radiates romantic warmth, mirroring Debbie Harry’s opulent style. Haunting, isolating melodies and moody soundscapes are what Cold Beat does best, evident in the synth-wave wanderings of the instrumental “Clouds” and the drum-machine and space-rock album closer “Ashes.” But the band can also change its attitude within a song. They build tension with a guitar clang and pro- pulsive drumming on the protopunk “Sisters,” a song that later finds solace in a flowing melody, which was there all along. Compare those textures with the brisk guitar strumming of the straightforward “Am I Dust” or Lew’s heart- breaking indecision on “Broken Lines,” and Cold Beat’s versatility impresses.
Music Reviews from Our Readers
Garth Brooks: ET Icon
By Mark Carpowich
Haunting melodies, moody soundscapes
A day after losing out on the CMA’s highest honor, Garth Brooks was in San Diego enjoying a not-so-shabby consolation prize: being feted by Nancy O’Dell. The longtime Entertainment Tonight anchor was a surprise guest on opening night of the singer’s six-show local stand, appearing onstage to present the singer with the program’s Entertainment Icon award. Afterward, Brooks jokingly told his band that as an officially recognized icon, they’d have to
start treating him better. The group
did its part, impressively backing the country singer/ guitarist through an energetic performance. Brooks alternated nimbly between heartfelt ballads — including a couple of duets with his wife, Trisha Yearwood — and high-tempo songs that saw the 53-year-old singer sprinting around the stage for much of his two-hour set. The singer kept his set heavy on older hits,
Brooks dubbed an official “icon” by Entertainment T
onight’s Nancy O’Dell
leading arena-wide sing-alongs on familiar songs, such as “Unanswered Prayers” and “Friends In Low Places.” Brooks may not be the CMA’s entertainer of the year, but for the enthusiastic San Diegans who welcomed him back to town after 19 years, he was the entertainer of the night.
Concert: Garth Brooks Date: November 5 Venue: Valley View Casino Center Seats: Terrace
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Thursday, 7pm — Metal Allegiance Friday, 7:30pm — Autograph and Big Toe
Ray Street Studios: Saturday, 6pm — Art Walk: Ray at Night
Red Parrot Lounge at Casino Pauma: Saturday, 8pm — Lifetime Rocker
San Diego Botanic Garden: Friday, 6pm — Adrienne Nims & Spirit Wind
San Diego Museum of Art: Friday, 5pm — The Art of Music: Art After Hours
San Pasqual Wine Bar and Gallery: Saturday, 7pm — Ruben Delgado
Sand Crab Tavern: Wednesday, 7pm — Whitney Shay and Robin Henkel
Sea & Smoke: Sunday, 10am — Ben Powell Wednesday, 6pm — Raelee Nikole
SeaFire: Saturday, 7:30pm — Freefall Jazz
Soda Bar: Thursday, 8pm — Nicely and Dani Shivers
Saturday, 8pm — Black Sabbitch Sunday, 8pm — Nobunny Monday, 8pm — The Gloomies Tuesday, 8pm — Voice Actor Wednesday, 8pm — The Tip and the Anomaly
Soma: Saturday, 6:30pm — Jara
Spreckels Organ Pavilion: Sunday, 2pm — Williams, Plimpton, and Jacobsen
Tavern: Friday, 7pm — Mike Czech Sunday, 8pm — Chris Cutz & Who
Tuesday, 8pm — DJ Who
Templar’s Hall at Old Poway Park: Friday, 7:30pm — Jeffrey Joe and Eric Freeman
Til-Two: Friday, 8pm — Egyptian Lover and Brian Ellis’ Reflection
Tower 13: Friday, 8:30pm — Mango Melody Saturday, 8:30pm — Whitney Shay & Robin Henkel Wednesday, 6:30pm — Britt Doehring
Tower Bar: Friday, 8pm — Jason Lee & the R.I.P. Tides
True North Tavern: Saturdays, 9pm, Tuesdays, 9pm — DJ Demon
Union Kitchen & Tap Gaslamp: Friday, 6pm — Whitney Shay and Robin Henkel Wednesday, 6pm — Ryan Hiller
Valley View Casino Center: Thursday, 7pm — Muse and Phantogram
Viejas Arena: Saturday, 7:30pm, Sunday, 7:30pm — Tool
Vin de Syrah Wine Parlor: Friday, 8pm — DJ Who and DJ Paulo Da Rosa
West Coast Tavern: Friday, 8pm — DJ Demon
Whistle Stop Bar: Wednesday, 8pm — Dorkbot SD
Winstons Beach Club: Monday, 9pm — Electric Waste Band
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Beyond Pictures from an Exhibition This Behind the Score event features Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition, with Karina Canellakis, conductor and Marc- Andre Hamelin, piano. Saturday, January 9, 8pm; $20-$96. 18 and up. Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street.
Jacobs Masterworks: Upright & Grand Piano Festival Karina Canellakis, guest conduc- tor, and Marc-AndrÈ Hamelin, piano, will perform a program that includes Debussy/Molinari, “L’isle joyeuse”; Ravel, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; Gershwin, “Rhapsody in Blue”; and Rachmaninoff/Respighi, “Cinq …tudes-tableaux.” The
event opens a month-long piano festival. Friday, January 8, 8pm; Sunday, January 10, 2pm; $20- $96. 18 and up. Jacobs Music Center, 750 B Street.
Michelle Cann Cann’s mas- tery of the piano has been recognized nationally and internationally with top prizes in the International Russian Piano Music Competition, the Blount Young Artists National Competition, and the 2014 Wideman International Piano Competition. Her repertoire includes emotional inter- pretations of Bach, Chopin, Beethoven, and more. Sunday, January 10, 6pm; $25-$30. California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N. Escondido Boulevard.
San Diego Symphony: Art of Music Finale The centen- nial celebration concludes in grand style as The Art of Music exhibitions opens and the Museum presents the final performances in this yearlong concert series. In tribute to the musical performances that were a central component of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, the Museum marks the centen- nial of this event with The Art of Music Concert Series, a monthly concert series exploring the duet of visual art and music. Thursday, January 7, 7pm; $15- $20. San Diego Museum of Art, 1450 El Prado.
SoundON Festival: Apocalypse & Transfiguration Thursday, January 7, 7:30pm; Saturday, January 9, 7:30pm; Sunday, January 10, 7:30pm; Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, 1008 Wall Street.
Spotlight Series 2016 Performers include Geoff Nuttall and Amy Schwartz Moretti (violins), Roberto Diaz (viola),
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