56 San Diego Reader February 25, 2016
This Week In Music
Thursday
“We’re just doing this one show.” That’s what Drive Like Jehu’s John Reis said in August of 2014 about their one-off free concert at Balboa Park’s organ pavilion, where they were accom- panied by civic organist Dr. Carol Williams. Jehu
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reunited for the opportunity to perform with the giant Balboa Park organ, Reis told Pitchfork. “I’ve been going to the organ concerts in the park there for years.” Social media lit a fuse under the news and the park was packed. I’m pretty sure I saw you there, but if you want to watch it again, the incendiary five-song set is all over the internet. And maybe that’s what caught the attention of the All Tomorrow’s Parties team, which tapped Jehu to curate this spring’s festival, April 22 through 24, when Reis will perform quadruple duty, fronting not only Jehu but Rocket From the Crypt, the Blind Shake, and Hot Snakes with fellow Jehu’r Mark Froberg. ATP is in North Wales, which is a day on a plane. You can catch Drive Like Jehu right here in North Park, warming up on the all-ages stage at the Irenic Thursday night after Pinback Zach’s Systems Officer and local punk ’n’ roll quartet Cruz Radical.... Else on Thursday: “disco orchestra” Es- cort plays Casbah...Emily Haines’s (Broken Social Scene) indie-rock Canada band Metric’s at House of
Blues...Tower Bar serves lo-fi locals Teenage Burritos...while Chicago’s melancholic-pop player Owen Ashworth, aka Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, aka Advance Base, wheels his piano into the Merrow in Hillcrest.
Friday
From Chino Hills, California, emo-core crew A Static Lullaby will play their 2003 high-water
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...and Don’t Forget to Breathe at Soda Bar Friday night. This is one of two SoCal dates for ASL, who will also play Saturday night in Pomona for you diehards. San Diego’s proggy experimen- talists the Calefaction will open the show.... Though Vokab Kompany frontman “Burkey” prefers a genreless tag, the local collective leans to hip-hop jam band, as evidenced by their new long-player, The Good Kompany Album. Fresh off the Run DMC Remix tour with fellow San Diegan Karl Denson, emcees Rob and Burkey and the VK Band will drop the new disc Friday night at the Music Box in Little Italy. The Reader’s Ken Leighton caught up with Burkey in advance of the record-release in this week’s “Surreal Vokabulary” Blurt.... Best of the rest: Dave Wakeling’s ska band English Beat skanks into Casbah, though it looks like that one might sell out, so please call the club before bouncing down to Middletown...local alt-rockers Sprung Monkey swing into Bay Park bar Brick by Brick with Petaluma punks Tsunami Bomb...up in the Heights Friday night, Tower Bar fills a garage-rock bill with the Natives, Electric Healing Sound, and Saints tribute Kid Galahad & the Eternals...while up in the rurals, things get young and ugly when Young Dubliners and Ugly Roomers take the Ramona Mainstage. Our Ugly friend Erich tells us that “a special guest art- ist, Bill Scott (Gary Puckett & the Union Gap), will be playing synthesized guitar and singing backup” for the Roomers.
Saturday
“The Stone Foxes have an energetic style that’s rooted in swampy, foot-stomping
rock...ambitious arrangements with diverse moods ranging from acoustic twang to thunderous elec- tric-guitar riffs” (NPR’s The World Cafe). Just back from a month of UK dates behind last year’s Twelve Spells, SanFran band Stone Foxes return to California to play Casbah Saturday night after local blues-rock band Spero.... Diane Coffee is not a woman but a band, or a man
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with a band. Shaun Fleming’s got some ’60s-style doo-wop chops that recall the Phil Spector sound. Critics liken him to Bowie and Jagger and the Reader’s Dave Good agrees, calling Fleming “a true
Motown-glam showstopper.” Check out Dave’s breakdown in this week’s Of Note before Diane Coffee takes the stage at the Hideout Saturday night.... Else on Saturday: Bar Pink stages high- energy, high-drama Long Beach rock trio Bella Novela, “whose fervent hope is to outnova the Mexican daytime soaps”...up-and-coming indie folkies Julien Baker (Memphis) and Phoebe Bridgers (L.A.) split a bill at the Irenic...while stoner-rock quartet Desert Suns set on Tower Bar after Zed and Nebula Drag for a night of cavity- rattling rock.
Sunday
Casbah stages ex–Pretty Girls Make Graves group Cave Singers on Sunday. The Seattle trio’s touring in support of last year’s Banshee record, a bracing, buzzing folk-rock collection that prompted the Reader’s Andrew Hamlin to get frontman Pete Quirk on the line for last week’s “Fighting
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Pirate sings mostly in French and has been credited with “bringing la chanson fran- çaise to a whole new genera- tion of Quebec youth.”
San Diego native and retro-soul vocalist Andra Day brings her Cheers to the Fall tour through her hometown. Day, who is most compared to Amy Winehouse and Etta James, apparently “kickstarted her career by posting R&B takes of songs by Eminem and Muse on YouTube” (Billboard). Ms. Day will play Observatory North Park on Tuesday... while SanFran funk-rock band Grim Slippers slip into Casbah after Raf
Deza...sepia-toned folkies G Burns Jug Band take the stage at the Merrow with Homesick Hitchers and Star Bandits... while Echo Park’s indie-pop band Banta sets up at Soda Bar in advance of this summer’s Dark Charms record — the show’s free with an RSVP.
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monsters with Cave Singers” Blurt, so click back for that. Indie-folkie Canada band Current Swell sets it up.... Best of the rest on Sunday finds El Paso’s country punks Dirty River Boys (“quintes- sentially Texas — a bit rough around the edges but full of heart”) drifting into Soda Bar after the O’s and Liquorsmiths...while The OC’s alt-pop trio Armors takes the Ché Café stage after tour mates Kid Cadaver and our own psych-pop Gloomies.
Monday
With baseball’s spring training heating up, it seems appropriate that Adam Gimbel would dust off his Rookie Card uniform and plug in at Whistle Stop for a night of “rockaltcountry- indiepopcatchycore”...while the Office in North Park hosts Bowie Under- cover Part II Monday night, featuring “Ziggy Shuffledust” Gary Shuffler and, oddly enough, Rookie Card’s Adam Gimbel. “Station to Station,” Adam?... For you Francophiles, Francophone singer/songwriter Béatrice Martin, aka Coeur de Pirate, takes the stage at Belly Up. Ms. Martin-
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Detroit quartet Protomartyr brings urban poetics to post-punk à la the Hold Steady’s heady sing- speak alt-rock rants. They even look a bit like that Midwest band — unassuming everymen — and have got the ears of rock writers from Michigan to Madrid, including our own Dryw Keltz, who spoke with frontman Joe Casey about the band’s beginnings and last year’s sopho- more set, the well-received Agent Intellect record. Flip or click to this week’s “Beauty amidst ruin” Blurt in advance of Wednes- day night’s show at Soda Bar, where Chastity Belt and Octagrape set the stage.... Miss the door at that one, San Diego’s hardcore best Battalion of Saints take Til-Two with Phobia and Nomads...while Nawlins alt-pop mainstays Mute- math hit House of Blues behind last
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year’s
Vitals...and autoharpist Basia Bulat brings her Jim James–produced Good Advice to Casbah. — Barnaby Monk
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