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station management says that pitcher Colin Rae mixes just fine with Green Day. But there are two alternative stations in town and neither has impres-
for the first time in 25 years. But founder Kevin Hellman said they didn’t actually die. Hellman, after backing out of producing the ceremony, changed his mind and said he’d come back to run them after all. The 2016 awards event will be held in the spring at the House of Blues.
— Ken Leighton
Radio vet Chambers returned to 91X from FM94/9 when that station announced it would start broadcasting Padre games.
sive ratings. Milestones: Shortly after
Candye Kane died of cancer in May, some 100 of her closest friends and neighbors staged a Mardi Gras–style parade in the streets of Oceanside to celebrate her colorful life with instruments, sequins, and boas. The burlesque boogie queen was lauded by assemblywoman Toni Atkins with a proclamation naming November 13 “Candye Kane Day.” She would have been 55. The annual San Diego
Music Awards didn’t happen
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TUESDAY • JAN. 10 BROWNOUT PRESENTS BROWN SABBATH
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THE LITTLE RICHARDS ALICE BAG BAND THE WIDOWS
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THURSDAY • JAN. 12 LUKE WADE
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MONDAY • JAN. 16 CAPTAIN AUZMO GARDEN ECHO COCHINAS LOCAS
Vinyl in the pink. Will Castro lives and dies by the pressing plants that make the vinyl releases for his local label La Escalera Records. Demand for vinyl keeps increas- ing. But turnaround time is getting worse. Castro says it can take up to four months for small labels like La Escalera to get its records; it used to take eight weeks. But Castro and
other small labels got some good news last week when the New York Times reported that America’s largest vinyl manu- facturer, United Record Press- ing, would be expanding its Nashville production facility to the size of “two football fields,” thereby doubling its capac- ity to turn out 7- and 12-inch records. United produces 30 to 40 percent of U.S. vinyl discs and most of La Escalera’s releases. “It keeps getting harder
and harder for small labels like mine to get their records back
on time,” says Castro about La Escalera, which has put out 36 releases over six years. “Now that the big labels are getting interested in vinyl again, they really clog up the pipes. Small labels like mine who get, like, 500 at a time have to wait for them to press the latest Miley Cyrus on pink vinyl.” Along with Justin Pearson’s
experimental Three-One-G Records, La Escalera has become one of San Diego’s most prolific rock diskeries, following the path set by Cargo Records, which thrived in the ’80s and ’90s by focusing on local standouts such as Drive Like Jehu, Fishwife, Olivelawn, and Rocket From the Crypt. Castro’s own band, Western
Settings, has released three EPs and one full-length record on La Escalera, joining other local labelmates such as A Scribe Amidst the Lions, the Marsupials, and Caskitt. Castro says he plans on six releases
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in 2017, including artists the Black Dots from Denver and Gentlemen Prefer Blood from L.A.
Because Castro says “he
heard horror stories” about boxes of records from small
locally). Band contracts are equally
simple: the band presents him with a mastered product, La Escalera pays for the pressing of the discs, the band keeps a set amount for itself (say, 20
other La Escalera artists eventually get picked up by larger labels, such as L.A.’s Epitaph or San Francisco’s Fat Wreck Chords. “That’s what happened to Success from Seattle who moved on to [Chicago label] Red Scare Industries,” Castro says. Castro says his bro deal
helped bring Oakland’s Civil War Rust, Sacramento’s Bastards of Young, and San Antonio’s Signalman to La Escalera. “They came to me,” says Castro. Western Settings appears
Castro (right): “Small labels like mine [La Escalera] have to wait for [vinyl manufacturers] to press the latest Miley Cyrus on pink vinyl.”
labels “sitting around in warehouses,” he says he avoids independent distributors and follows a very simple distribution model, relying mostly on online orders and a handful of indie record shops (including Red Brontosaurus,
percent of the run), and La Escalera sells the rest. “Once I pay off my investment, I sell the rest to the band at my cost.... We do everything on a handshake basis.” Castro says he hopes his own Western Settings and
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CONTRIBUTORS Chad Deal, Dave Good, Dorian Hargrove, Mary Leary, Ken Leighton, Bart Mendoza, Jay Allen Sanford, David Stampone
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