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the inside track
Justin Schemensky. “We were pulled in differ-
Strawberries from Rome. While the value of winning a San Diego Music Award is unclear, some insid- ers joke that in 2014, SDMA love seemed like the kiss of death. Just after Burning of Rome
won three awards (Song of the Year, Best Live Band, Best Alternative Album — they had six nominations), the North County band broke up and frontman Adam Traub packed up and moved to Chicago. This, after the band was given extensive backing by Encinitas-based Surfdog Records/Dave Kaplan Man- agement (Eric Clapton, Brian Setzer, Slightly Stoopid). Traub and Kaplan declined
comment on the matter, but the breakup of Burning of Rome helped create the Strawberry Moons. Shortly after Burning of
Rome broke up, vocalist/key- boardist Aimee Jacobs started working with Shake Before Us vocalist/keyboardist/gui- tarist Will A. Lerner. A year
ent directions,” says Lerner about the Shake Before Us breakup. He says some mem- bers veered toward a garage aesthetic. “I wanted to do something more melodic with a female vocalist. [The Straw- berry Moons] are inspired by finely crafted pop songs by the Kinks and Lee Hazle- wood, and the harmonies of
Lerner is one of the talent
buyers at Oceanside’s Pour House, which has established a local-music beachhead in North County by focusing on original bands with no cover charge. “Who knew North County could support a club based on the local- music scene? “We can’t pretend we’re the
Pour House talent buyer Will A. Lerner (second from left): “We can’t pretend we’re the Casbah. Oceanside is not North Park.”
and a half of collaboration has yielded a new band with guitarist John Falk (Shake Before Us, Schizophonics) and Mrs. Henry’s bassist Jason Areford and drummer
Fleetwood Mac.” The Lerner/ Jacobs collaboration led to the release of a four-song EP and live gigs. “Aimee and I are both perfectionists. It took a while.”
Casbah. And Oceanside is not North Park. But I think the Pour House has figured out the right formula.” There are live bands Thursday through Saturday night. Lerner says the Pour House used to have cover bands four times a month. “Now it’s more like twice a
month...bands from L.A. want to come down. like Jet Trash, Elijah Ocean, and Pearl Buck. Just last Thurs- day we had this band from Spain, Las Munjitas, which means ‘little nuns.’ They were all dressed as nuns and sang songs in Spanish and English about how they were all going to hell.” Regarding the value of an
SDMA, Lerner offers this: “Look at the Schizophon- ics. They get an award every
Mali’s Grammy-winning Tinarwen found musical inspiration from the Roy Orbison film The Fastest Gun Alive. His guitar shot bullets.
time they show up. Not only did they not break up but it seemed to make them stron- ger. They are poised to break internationally any minute.” The Strawberry Moons
appear Friday at the Casbah with Bosswitch, Mrs. Henry,
and Mission Creeps. — Ken Leighton
From an oasis in Morocco. Tinariwen’s founder, Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, watched the execution of his father, a rebel in the 1963 Mali uprising. A few years later he found musical inspiration in a film, The Fastest Guitar Alive, starring Roy Orbison
as a cowboy whose guitar shot bullets. He founded Tinariwen in 1979, playing traditional Berber music shot through with other influences, including rock and roll. The ever-shifting lineup,
which took home a Grammy for their 2011 album Tassili, comes to Belly Up on March 30. Speaking through transla- tor Bastien Gsell, bassist Eyadou Ag Leche and guitar- ist Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni took questions from Berlin. How do you find strength
and resilience in the midst of war and instability most Americans can’t comprehend? (continued on page 46)
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