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40th birthday of the latter’s Damned Damned Damned LP. Bleached will be touring in support of a slightly younger platter, 2017’s Can You Deal? EP.
Fans of 2016’s Welcome the
Angeles natives who have been playing shows in San Diego for years. In fact, the Wikipedia page for their old band, Mika Miko, features a live photo- graph of the band playing the Casbah in 2006. Jennifer related that they have been playing shows down here since they were teenagers, and that they love to eat at Pokez when they’re in town. She also revealed that she had a bit of a revela- tion after attending the Frights’ You Are Going To Hate This Fest 2 in February at the Soma. “It was massive. I
The Clavins’ latest harks back to hard- rocking ’90s acts Urge Overkill and L7.
Worms LP can rest assured that the new EP continues in the same hard-rocking vein. Bleached is channeling a sound that would have felt at home in the ’90s (Urge Overkill, L7) but today sounds surprisingly unique. Jennifer related how she has friends in bands that could be defined as garage and pop-punk, but that Bleached doesn’t adapt so easily to standard genre classification. “I think sometimes it’s easier when you have your crew of bands that you sound similar to and you can easily book tours together and hang out,” she concluded.
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had no idea the San Diego scene was even that big. It was at some crazy, big venue, and I just thought it was so cool because I feel like every time we go to San Diego we’re playing a
bar. I never got to experience the all-ages scene, and when I saw that I was thinking I want to be playing more all-ages shows in San Diego. That’s why we’re in a band…to play for everybody. Not just 21 and
over,” Jennifer said. — Dryw Keltz
We are seeds. “I am both. I’m Mexican, and I’m American.” Gustavo Alcoser says Jarabe Mexicano’s pending release of an old Bob Marley protest song came together as the result of a number of fac- tors. First inspiration, he says, was presidential talk of a new
border wall. But the underlying impetus to record came from the kidnapping of some col- lege students in Mexico. “We named our version of the song ‘Semillas’ after those students. Semillas means seeds.” In 2014, 43 students from
the Escuela Normal Rural Raul Isidro Burgos in Iguala, Mexico were rounded up by police and never seen again. “I saw a meme on social media once, about the mass murders. The caption was,” Alcoser says, “‘They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.’” The 33-year-old singer explains that Mario Equia (Jaribe Mexicano’s guitar- ist) “had said he thought we needed to consider getting more involved politically. And coincidentally, a producer named Mike Kociela called and asked us to record ‘Get Up Stand Up.’” Alcoser is originally a
native San Diegan. “I was born
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here. Then, when I was five, my mom and I and one of my sisters moved to Tijuana.” They settled into an apart- ment in Ciudad Jardin, about 10 minutes from the border. “We crossed every day. It was
Diego. “But my extended fam- ily is still down there.” Jarabe Mexicano is a
traditional Latin American five-piece inspired by Sonora and Mariachi music. They are based in San Diego. “We
Wayne fan. Also the golden age of Mexican films. I grew up listening to both.” Alcoser says Jarabe Mexi-
Alcosser: “I saw a meme on social media, about the murders: ‘They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.’”
an interesting childhood,” he explains. “My school and my friends were here, but my home and my family were in Tijuana.” Alcoser, who is a graduate student at San Diego State University, says he and his mother now both live in San
have ties on both sides of the border,” Alcoser says. “And our music reflects that. We’ll play rock-and-roll and cumbia.” He says the roots of that genre mix lie in his upbringing. “We lis- tened to everything when I was a kid. My mom was a big John
cano recorded their Cumbia- influenced version of “Get Up Stand Up” in two days at the Cabana recording studio with Anthony Ridenhour as co-producer. He says that their version can be applied “to different scenarios. We made the meaning broad enough so that it wasn’t a specific ban,” he explains. “Our mission with the song is to promote the idea to get involved politically. That will be made evident by our video,” which he says is in production at the time of writing. Jarabe Mexicano plans to premiere “Get Up Stand Up”
live at Taco Fest in May. — Dave Good
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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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