56 San Diego Reader February 9, 2017
This Week In Music
Thursday
“They’re very cute. I think they have an amazingly bright future,” says Elton John about brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario, the talented singer/ songwriter/multi-instrumentalists behind Lemon Twigs. In fact, much of the UK — where they were on tour last year — finds the Long Islanders’ Beatles/Beach Boys/Bay City Rollers mash-up smashing, if you follow the Guardian and London Times. Better yet, follow your own ears to lem-
ontwigs.com and stream their dandy debut, Do Hollywood. Sir Elton may be right about these lads. Reader rock writer Dave Good picks their Casbah show on Thursday as the set to see in this week’s Of Note. Nashville’s glitter-boogie glam band Savoy Motel opens the show.... Best of the rest Thursday night finds North County’s Bombpops playing a record-release for their new Fat Wreck record, Fear of Missing Out, after Caskitt and Squarecrow. Catch up with prog-punk trio Caskitt in this week’s “Drummer’s revenge” Blurt... Grizzly
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Business, Heart Beat
Trail, LEMON TWIGS AT CASBAH
and Whiskey Circle will fill a barroom-rock bill at the Merrow in Hillcrest...L.A. “tragic wave” art- ist Deb Demure’s Drab Majesty darkens the door of the Hideout after Body of Light...Hey Ho Let’s Go! will chug through a
set of Ramones at the Whistle Stop in South Park... while up in La Jolla, Orlando-based emo act You Blew It! headlines sets at the Ché Café after Texas alt-rockers All Get Out and Nashville indie quintet Free Throw.
Friday
L.A.’s psych-pop mop-tops the Molochs will take the stage at Soda Bar after garage-psych locals the Loons. “The Molochs are in thrall to that point in the mid-’60s when beat groups, garage bands, and psychedelic outfits began to merge into each other,” says the Guardian, which gives their sophomore set (America’s Velvet Glory) three out five stars for its sweet spot hits “No More
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Cryin’” and “The One I Love.” Riding an arc from early, swirly Stones to fellow Los Angelenos the Allah-Las, singer/songwriter Lucas Fitzsimons and his Molochs seem to be paying proper homage to some genre-defining bands in between — Byrds, VU, Television — but I can’t wait to hear what comes when Fitzsimons shrugs ’em off. For fans of the brand, this’d be the show to see this week- end.... Miss the door at Soda Bar, right down the road at the Hideout, L.A. rock-rollers and frequent stage-mates of the aforementioned Molochs, the Relationship (featuring Brian Bell of Weezer on guitar/vox), will headline sets by Warbly Jets and Fake
Tides...touring in support of last year’s rockabilly/blues record The Southern Surreal, Legendary Shack Shakers will take the stage at Casbah after the Brains and Delta Bomb-
ers...more tat-rock at Til-Two, where Screamin’ Yeehaws anchor a date by Dime by Dime and Cochinas Locas...while local cavity-rattlers Red Wizard, Nebula Drag, Amigo, and Cambrian Explosion go off at the Merrow.
Saturday
Enjoy an early-evening set by Griffin House at Soda Bar on Saturday night at 6p. House is touring in support of his latest folk-rock record, So On and So Forth — “a solemn and sturdy set of songs,” according to No Depression magazine. Later that evening at the Normal Heights hot spot, Brazilian psych-pop band Booga- rins headlines sets by Amerikan Bear and Soul Juice.... Else on Saturday: haunted surf-rock organ-grinders Creepy Creeps join San Diego’s favorite garage-wreckers the Schizophonics, the Widows, and Alvino & the Dwells to fill a top- shelf locals-only bill at Casbah...30-years-strong “cowpunksurfabilly” band the Ziggens plays the
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Merrow with No Kings and Midnight Track...L.A. indi- etronica artist Kamtin Mohager, aka Chain Gang of 1974, plugs in at the Hideout...while French trip-hop producer Jean- Christophe Le Saoût, aka Wax Tailor, winds up the Music Box after old-soul hip-hop ’n’ jazz act L’Orange.
Sunday
“I want to believe” in David Duchovny’s musicianship. The FBI special agent went rogue and dropped a folk-rock record called Hell or Highwater in 2015. The label, Thinksay, compared the col- lection to Leonard Cohen, Wilco, and REM, but the crit- ics’ grades suggest otherwise. Even adult-contempos Consequence of Sound gave him a C grade, which puts
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ago — when they stage Oh Spirit, Lis- tening to Rocks, and Veronica May & the To Do
List...and hot blues band Hot Tuna, featuring Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady, plays an acoustic set at Belly Up.
Tuesday
Happy Valentine’s Day, lovers. If rocking’s in your sweetheart’s heart, Chapel Hill’s post-hardcore futurists Milemarker will headline sets at Casbah behind Overseas, their first album in 11 years. Noisey likes it: “Milemarker’s music propels the angular innovations of Fugazi and Drive Like Jehu into new realms of robotic otherness.” Big Jesus and Hours go first...otherwise, stab a box of wine and crank up the turntable, as San Diego is low on shows Tuesday night.
14 Wednesday THE GRISWOLDS AT CASBAH
him in league with Keanu Reeves, Kevin Bacon, and Russell Crowe. But no one goes to these shows for the music. It’s a starfuck fest, and why not? X-Files, man! Fox Mulder plays the Music Box on Sunday.... If you prefer a rocker to a gawker, “punky-tonk” couple Jason and Polly Punkneck bring their country-fried Punknecks to the Tower
Bar...the O.C.’s ska-pop octet Save Ferris is up at Belly Up celebrating the release of this week’s Checkered Past
record...Aussie indie band the Griswolds plays Casbah behind their latest, last year’s Relativity release High Times for Low Lives... and skate-punk ’Zonies Authority Zero drop in at Brick by Brick on a big bill that includes Hey Smith, the Walking Tox- ins, Skipjack, and Strike Twelve.
Monday
Detroit lo-fi-punk trio Tyvek’s at Soda Bar behind last year’s Origin of What, the In the Red album Pitch- fork scored a very respectable 7.8: “these wordy, detail- stuffed songs are fast and
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staid, intense and gentle, paranoid and curious.” The guy who recorded Origin of What, indie-rock lifer Fred Thomas, and local experimental lo-fi band Kan-Kan will set it up.... Else on Monday: popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale will spin a new tale at the Observatory North Park... Roger and Sara celebrate another year of wedded bliss at Casbah — where they got hitched ten years
Roads Home, punk’d-rock four-piece Western Settings will kick off their winter tour at Tower Bar...while “murderfolk” singer/songwriter/bloody banjo player Danny Kiranos, aka Amigo the Devil, will damn souls at Soda Bar.
— Barnaby Monk Find Club Crawler online at
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From Memphis in Tennessee, the country-punk five piece Lucero is touring in support of their latest ATO release, All a Man Should Do,
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which found the group leaning on their country roots a little more than usual, and pumping up the brass and piano runs. Stillandall, these boys are aging like good whiskey, about which they know a thing or three — they sure sing enough songs about the spirit. Lucero headlines sets at Belly Up Wednesday after soul-rock singer/songwriter Esmé Patterson for one dandy of a double bill.... The rest of Humpnight hits like this: two sets by uke master Jake Shimabukura at Music Box, where he’ll take the stage at 7 and 9:
30p...ska- punk Michiganders Mustard Plug play Casbah after Phenomenauts and O’side Sound Sys- tem...out to tout their latest La Escalera release,
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