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THIS WEEK’S SHOWS
207 Nightclub: Saturday, 8pm — Throwback DJ
710 Beach Club: Thursday, 8pm — Liquid Courage Karaoke Friday, 10pm — Pleasure Victims Saturday, 8pm — Upfull Rising and Kng Mkr Tuesday, 8pm — Blue Halas and Cold Threat Wednesday, 8pm — Pet Tigers
950 Lounge at the Handlery Hotel: Friday, 5:30pm — Jaime Valle Trio
98 Bottles: Thursday, 7:30pm — La Esencia Flamenca Friday, 7:30pm — Charlie Arbelaez and Matt Hall’s Bebop Explosion Vol. III Friday, 8pm — Bebop Explosion Vol. III
AD Nightclub: Friday, 8pm — DJ Kaos Saturday, 8pm — DJ Amen
AMSDconcerts: Saturday, 7:30pm — Takoma Guitar Masters
Air Conditioned Lounge: Saturday, 9pm — DJ Mike Czech Wednesday, 8pm — Jaydean
Aztec Brewing Company: Saturday, 8pm — HighMinded Sunday, 8pm — Alexus Jones and Reggae Lou
Bahia Resort Hotel: Friday, 7:30pm — Wag Halen
Balboa Theatre: Saturday, 8pm, Sunday, 3pm — SD Gay Men’s Chorus: California Dreamin’
Bancroft: Thursday, 9pm — Darkwave Garden Friday, 8pm — New Rome Quartet and Detangler Saturday, 8pm — Kommunity FK and Texylvania Sunday, 8pm — Open Mic Night
Bang Bang: Saturday, 8pm — Bixel Boys
Bar Pink: Thursday, 8pm — DJ Ikah Love Friday, 8pm — ’80s vs ’90s Saturday, 8pm — Paul Weller Tribute Monday, 9pm — Tori Roze & the Hot Mess Tuesday, 8pm — DJ Marshall Islands
Wednesday, 8pm — DJ L
Bassmnt: Friday, 9pm — Paris Blohm Saturday, 8pm — UZ
Beaumont’s: Thursday, 7:30pm — Michael LeClerc Friday, 9pm — Scratch Saturday, 9pm — Dirty Bird Sunday, 11:30am — Mike Myrdal
Bel Vino Winery: Sunday, 1pm — Daring Greatly
Belly Up: Thursday, 8pm — Unknown Mortal Orchestra Friday, 8pm — Johnny Clegg Saturday, 8pm — The Ann Wilson Thing Sunday, 8pm — The Six String Society Monday, 8pm — Hamish Anderson Tuesday, 8pm — Micky & the
N TE BY DAVE GOOD
Don’t let the name the Funk Ark fool you. Taken together, the words funk and ark imply some kind of salvage of the old-school (James Brown, P-Funk, Maceo Parker). Not the case. The Funk Ark is all about the musical influences that motivated ’60s funk, namely the Afro-Cuban rhythms and changes that are considered to be the mothership. To call it Afrobeat borders on cliché, but so be it. The Funk Ark is jazzier, as if Chick Corea’s home- work was to make up some horn-driven soul fusion. But the dance vibe is stronger with the eight Ark members. It’s a big percussion sound with horns in
all the right places, chicken-scratching guitar comps, a loping bass line, weird sonic key-
Motorcars Wednesday, 8pm — Jamestown Revival
Bethlehem Lutheran Church: Sunday, 4pm — Adrienne Nims & Sheldon Rosenbaum
Bolt Brewing: Friday, 6:30pm — Chet Cannon & the Committee Saturday, 6:30pm — Manganista and Fusebox
Bourre Southern Bistro: Saturday, 7pm — RX-3
Brick by Brick: Friday, 7pm — Prong, Kulteir, Redmond Saturday, 8pm — Remembering Toni Isbelle Tuesday, 8pm — Eyes Set to Kill and Open Your Eyes
Café Sevilla: Friday, 8pm — DJ Nawtee & DJ Lambchop
Capri Blu: Thursday, 7pm — Hank Easton Friday, 7pm — Deblois Milledge
Casbah: Thursday, 8pm — Deafheaven Friday, 8pm — Dead Feather Moon and Mrs. Henry Saturday, 8:30pm — Jungle Fire and La Diabla Tuesday, 8pm — Black Mountain and Marissa Nadler
boards, and all of it in odd meters, minus vocals. The Funk Ark is an instrumen- tal experience. Now touring behind their latest full-length, Man Is a Monster, the band is in truth one of many projects juggled concurrently by a DC straight-ahead jazz pianist named Will Rast. Rast is the Ark’s main
songwriter. The backstory is that while he was studying jazz theory in Manhattan, Rast chanced to hear the funky Afrobeat group Antibalas, and that was a game-changer; he would eventually become a member. Otherwise known as a first-call sideman for artists such as Mya and Federico Aubele, Thievery Corporation broke Rast out to larger pop audiences when they started using him as well. In spite of his suc- cess, Rast claims no music-industry love; he once told a reporter that money was ruining music, that the whole experience was designed to part one from one’s money — even though by the end of a day he, too, has to count tick-
Wednesday, 8pm — Har Mar Superstar and White Fang
Cat Eye Club: Friday, 6pm — Modern Day Moonshine Saturday, 8pm — Dan Trio
Chandler’s: Friday, 5pm — Marcela Mendez
Cheers Bar & Grill: Saturday, 8pm — NoL7
Conrad Prebys Music Center at UCSD: Saturday, 8pm — Kartik Seshadri
Coronado Library: Friday, 2pm — San Diego Guitar Festival: Bassett Bros.
Cougar Vineyard & Winery: Friday, 5pm — Frankie & the Invisibles Sunday, 2pm — James Holland
Coyote Bar & Grill: Thursday, 6pm — Terribles Friday, 6pm — Soul Fire Saturday, 6pm — The Evidence Band Sunday, 5pm — Billy Watson Wednesday, 6pm — Daring Greatly
D Street Bar and Grill: Friday, 9pm — DJ Showtime Saturday, 9pm — DJ Will Hernandez
THE FUNK ARK
ets and CDs sold. I suppose he makes up for it with the worth of his product: Rast brings a world-class band to the small stage, and he makes it cook.
THE FUNK ARK: Soda Bar, Sunday, April 24, 8:30 p.m. 619-255-7224. $10 advance/$12 at the door
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De Oro Mine Co: Friday, 8pm — Palos Verdes Saturday, 8pm — Stone Horse
Diamond Jim’s: Saturday, 8pm — Chingy
Dirk’s Niteclub: Friday, 8pm — Serious Guise Saturday, 8pm — DJ Alex
Dizzy’s: Sunday, 7:30pm — Mundell Lowe’s 94th Birthday Celebration
Downtown Café: Friday, 7pm — The Good Mojo Band
Saturday, 6:30pm — The Farmers
Dublin Square: Friday, 8pm — Finnegan Blue Saturday, 9pm — Quel Bordel
Duck Dive: Friday, 5pm — Mike Myrdal
El Cajon Grand: Saturday, 9pm — DJ Al C
El Dorado Cocktail Lounge: Thursday, 8pm — The Tighten Up
Friday, 8pm — Beat Kitchen Saturday, 8pm — Butts Ta Nuts Sunday, 8pm — Legends to Outlaws Monday, 8pm — Shane Hall
F6ix Niteclub: Thursday, 8pm — Trill Thursday
W E D
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4/20 THE BIG PINK SUNDROP ELECTRIC
4/21 HAUNTED SUMMER 4/22 THE BADVIBES 4/23 BLACK SABBITCH
GLOOMSDAY PLEASURE BURN • SUBTROPICS GAYC/DC • THE GREAT ELECTRIC QUEST
4/23 @TIL-TWO CLUB 4/24 THE FUNKARK
PLUS GUESTS
LOWER CLASS BRATS CHANNEL 3 • THE WIDOWS
THE LULLS ANNIE GIRL AND THE FLIGHT • GARDEN ECHO
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Friday, 8pm — DJ Brett Bodley Saturday, 8pm — DJ Wellman Sunday, 8pm — DJ Craig Smoove
Field Irish Pub and Restaurant: Friday, 9pm — The Fooks Saturday, 9pm — Clint Westwood
Fluxx: Friday, 8pm — Neil Jackson Saturday, 8pm — Kyle Flesch
Gallagher’s Pub & Grill: Friday, 9pm — Hazmatt Saturday, 8pm — Smashups Sunday, 3pm — Brothers Reed
Ginger’s: Thursday, 8pm — Sam Hosking Friday, 8pm — Huy Believe Saturday, 8pm — Big Willie Style Tuesday, 8pm — Patrick Dowling Wednesday, 8pm — Tori Roze & Johnny Alexander
Golden Acorn Casino: Friday, 7pm — Tropic 2 Saturday, 7pm — Band of Gold
Grossmont College: Sunday, 6:30pm — GPS Trio
Grove at Suzie’s at Sunset: Saturday, 10:30am — Cowboy Jack
Harp: Saturday, 8pm — Help
4/25 MAGICWANDS 4/26 NEBULA DRAG 4/27 HUMANS 4/28 SUSTO
DOWN BIG 4/29 WOLFWAKER
A NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHES I SURVIVE • SIGHT UNSCENE
4/30 PLEASURE FIX (EP RELEASE) 5/1 FIGHTING FRICTION 5/2 TIGERMANWOAH 5/3 KID CONGO POWERS
UNDERGROUND PLAY CLUB PEACE TREATY HALL • ALMOST MONDAY THESE WILD PLAINS • TED Z AND THE WRANGLERS
& THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS THE HEARTACHES • CRUZ RADICAL
DRINKING FLOWERS • FUTURE AGE SUPERSONIC DRAGON WAGON • KOSMIC HALO COLOUR VISION • ASTRAL TOUCH
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