48 San Diego Reader January 5, 2017
This Week In Music
Thursday The Year of the
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Devil begins in earnest Thursday night, when rootsicana band Devil Makes Three takes the stage at the Observato- ry and the “Devil’s 3 Way” hits Casbah. I jest, they’re
DEVIL MAKES THREE AT THE OBSERVATORY
not so bad: Devil Makes Three is a trio of “neo- ragtime, -folk, -country musicians with a punk at- titude.” The SanFran band is touring in support of their fifth record, Redemption & Ruin, “an album of covers that is divided equally between songs of sacred striving and secular abandon,” according to PopMatters. See, good
folk...and that Devil’s 3 Way in Middletown features ska-punk party bands Buck-O-Nine (SD), Voodoo Glow Skulls (L.A.), and the Porkers (Newcastle, Australia). All smiles as you skank the night away. Though, Casbah Presents curated both these shows, and their phone digits spell H-E-L-L. Just sayin’.... Try as I might, it’s too early to parse the band name The Number 12 Looks Like You, let alone their brand of “grindcore mathrock.” It’s a neck snapper. [The band name is from a Twilight Zone episode, and they prefer “avant-garde metal” (they’re also into Zappa and jazz) — Ed.] The quartet from Fair Lawn, New Jersey, will take the stage at Soda Bar after Vegas-based post-core band Stolas and So- Flo (Broward County, represent!) mathcore quartet Fero Lux.... Else on Thursday: Brick by Brick books hard-rock “supergroup” Resurrection Kings (feat. guitarist Craig Goldy and drummer Vinny Appice of Dio) with likeminded locals Symbolic... and alt-rock British band Gene Loves Jezebel plays Belly Up after Carrie Gillespie Feller’s (Ilya, Lunar Maps) dark-pop solo project Hexa.
Friday
L.A. via SD indie-pop band TV Girl plugs in at Soda Bar after local melodic noise rockers Lanterns (where have those dudes been since 2010?). TV Girl is Brad Petering, Jason Wyman, and Wyatt Harmon, an electropop trio that describes its music as “something you can sing along to, but wouldn’t sing around your parents.” They are touring in support of their latest record,
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Who Really Cares, an album “about sex, or lack thereof, and the consequence, or lack thereof.” Beyond the pithy one-liners, TV Girl’s latest “combines the aesthetic of ’90s hip-hop with modern psychedelic pop and chillwave” (bandwagmag. com). I’m exempt from listening because I don’t much care for any of those things; Lanterns, on the other hand, and I can tell you first hand, is a hella fun rock band. I think the
two groups came up together in last decade’s Ché Café scene.... Anyway, onward: Long Beach hip-hop veteran Warren Griffin III, aka OG Hemingway, aka Warren G, has the mic Friday night at the Observatory. G’s touring in support of last year’s Regulate...G Funk Era, Pt. II, a sequel to his 1994 debut, a record many rap critics consider tops in the West Coast genre...local “balls-out” punk-rockers Revolt-Chix headline sets by Zombie Surf Camp and the Pictographs at the Merrow in Hillcrest...while the Soul Search Council deejays — DJ Claire, Mike Turi, Ms. Angie, Mark Garcia, Pat & Lety Beers, and Mr. Mazee — will be spinning dance discs in Casbah’s main room, while Lady Dottie & the Diamonds bangs out two sets in the Atari Lounge.
Saturday
The Seventh Annual Beat Farmers Hootenany hootenans at Belly Up Saturday night, featuring the Farmers, the Paladins, and Joey Harris & the Mentals. From the Belly Up bill: “The Beat Farmers sound like Bo Diddley, CCR, Joe South, and the Yardbirds, ham fisted into a food processor, stuffed into a shotgun shell, and blasted into a beer keg at three in the morning... in Faron Young’s rumpus room.... Over the years, the Beat Farmers turned in to the Farmers, and lost a couple of fixtures along the way, Country Dick in ’95 and Buddy Blue in ’06.” This night is as much a tribute to those two rockin’ rabble-rousers as it is a reunion of old friends, a reason to drink too much, and a reminder that the San Diego sound has roots, too. See you in Solana Beach Saturday night.... Around town: So- Cal stoner-rock staples Fu
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Manchu play Casbah behind their latest “primitive, raw, and ultra fuzzed-out” album (Gigantoid). L.A.’s sludge-metal vets 16 will open the show in support of their new Relapse Records record, Lifespan of a
Moth...San Diego’s indie-rock favorites Grizzly Business will play a record-release for Spanish Old Fashion at Soda Bar after Inspired & the Sleep and Spero... surf-rock stalwarts Jason Lee & the R.I.P. Tides drop in at Tower Bar...while the San Diego Soul Club convenes at the Merrow where the Debonairs, the Revivors, and the Mochilero All Stars will play your recommended daily allowance of soul ’n’ roll.
Sunday
In celebration of the late, great David Bowie’s birthday (he would have been 70), Casbah stages Ariel Levine, who will perform Bowie’s last album, Blackstar, in its entirety, and Bowiephonics, the Schizophonics’ take on the Thin White Duke. Spinning ’round sets will be DJs Claire, Mr. Mazee, and Little Robert. For more on the evening, flip or click to Dave Good’s weekly Of Note column, where Dave chats up the multi-faceted/multi-faced Ariel Levine — apparently he’s in two AC/DC tribute groups, too, playing the part of each Young brother.... Also on Sunday, Hannah Yeun (Portlandian songwriter and musician Hannah Yeun McCarthy), supported by her bandmates James Collette (bass), Karen Moore (vox/synth), and Travis Lent (drums), will play her brand of “witchy, somber tunes with a ’60s vibe” at Soda Bar. Local darkwave trio Nylon Apartments and post- rock quartet TV Icon will open the show.
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1/4 CAUGHT A GHOST STOLAS • FEROLUX MODERN ME • IMAGERY MACHINE
1/5 THE NUMBER 12 LOOKS LIKE YOU 1/6 TV GIRL
LANTERNS • POPPET
1/7 GRIZZLY BUSINESS 1/8 HANNAH YUEN 1/10 SECONDHAND 1/11 COUNTRY LIPS
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Tuesday
We’re All Gonna Die — that’s the title of the top-selling album by L.A. indie-folkies Dawes, who sold out Belly Up Tuesday night.... Don’t die, go experience Brown Sabbath. Follow- ing up 2014’s original foray into Sabbath’s acid rock, “Austin-based nine-piece Latin funk and breakbeat purveyors Brownout announced the release of Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath, Vol. II.” That was last October, and Pitchfork wrote “the rearrangements are so exhilarating that, even without amplifier overdose, they make you remember why you got into metal in the first place.” What does Ozzy have to say about the Latin-flavored take? “It’s fucking awesome, this fucking Mexican guy sounds just like me!” Get down with Brown Tuesday night at Casbah.... L.A.’s hard-rocking goths Stitched Up Heart, touring in support of their debut, Never Alone, headlines sets by SanFran band Letters From the Fire
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and local metal heads Sight Unscene at Brick by Brick.
Wednesday
Big band Country Lips kiss Soda Bar Wednes- day night. The eight-piece Seattle act is touring in support of last year’s Till the Daylight Comes, which features the catchy, twangy “‘Grizzly Bear Calendar,’ the kind of song that, without sadness or regret, remembers summer for the beauty that only comes from things that must come to an end.” And you can two-step to it. I just did :-).... Not your cup of corn whiskey? Doro- thy’s at Casbah. Dorothy’s a dirty blues-rock quartet from L.A. fronted by the bewitched
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and bewitching Dorothy Martin. The band’s out to tout their debut, Rockisdead, out now on Jay- Z’s not-a-rock-and-roll-label Roc Nation label. Though the album pushes production over their raw-rock badassery, this band was built for the stage, from which many converts insist Dorothy has saved their rock-roll soul.
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1/12 MINT FIELD 1/13 LE CHATEAU
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MEXICO CITY ROLLERS EMPTY GODS • THE NEW ADDICTION
1/14 JUST IN CASE 1/15 BORN RIVALS
ASH WILLIAMS CASTOFF • QUE OSO
1/19 AMERICAN WRESTLERS 1/20 GAZEBOS 1/20 @ CHE CAFE
PLUS GUESTS BOYFRIENDS HOMESAFE LIFE LESSONS• CHASE HUGLIN
1/21 THE GENERATORS 1/24 LEAH DOU
PLUS GUESTS CHANNEL 3 • SLAUGHTER BOYS
ALIVE & WELL HARD TO HIT • HARDLY HUMAN
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