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56 San Diego Reader April 6, 2017


Saturday, 9pm — DJ Politik. Tuesday, 9pm — AfroJack.


Open Air Theatre: Tuesday, 7:30pm — A Perfect Circle. $35-$99.


Panama 66: Friday, 7pm — Chris Murray. Saturday, 7pm — JazzKatz Orchestra.


Park & Rec: Saturday, 9pm — The Routine.


Parq Restaurant: Friday, 9pm — Crespo. $15-$20. Saturday, 8pm — Ikon.


Pechanga Resort & Casino: Sunday, 7pm — Michael McDonald. $59-$89.


Port Pavilion on Broadway Pier:


Saturday, 7pm — San Diego Beer and Music Festival. $35-$60.


Pour House: Thursday, 8pm — Heather Nation and Cardinal Moon. Friday, 8pm — Ben Powell and LA Edwards. Sunday, 8pm — Tommy Mitchell Show.


Poway Center for the Performing Arts: Saturday, 8pm — Andy McKee and Celino Romero.


Queen Bee’s Art & Cultural Center: Friday, 9pm — Jai Ho! Dance Party. $7-$10.


Rancho Bernardo Library: Saturday, 3pm — Palomar/YPO Percussion Ensemble. Free.


Rebecca’s Coffee House: Sunday, 10am — Johnny High- Hat.


Red Parrot Lounge at Casino Pauma: Thursday, 8pm — Nemesis. Friday, 8pm — Tony Suraci. Saturday, 8pm — Soul Gravity. Sunday, 8pm — Latin Soul Connection.


Rich’s Hillcrest: Thursday, 8pm — DJ Kiki. Friday, 9pm — DJ Dida. Saturday, 8pm — DJ Taj. Sunday, 8pm — DJ Hektik. Wednesday, 8pm — DJ Kiki.


Riviera Supper Club & Turquoise Room: Friday, 9pm — Flipside Burners. Free.


Rook Bar: Saturday, 8pm — Resurrection Radio.


EVERYONE’S A CRITIC


Minus the Bear, minus the freshness


By Andy M. Coronado


Let’s make this clear: “indie rock” is a sterile phrase. And whether you want to use it to refer to lo-fi Sonic Youth–offshoot noise bands, ’80s revival — “Hey, look we use synths!” — bands, or Brooklyn bedroom rock, at least we can agree it’s also a sterile genre. Nonetheless, the phrase and genre remain, and bands like Minus the Bear remain with it. It’s been five years since the Seattle group has released a full-length studio album and possibly a decade since they’ve released anything particularly exciting, but if there’s anything 2017’s Voids can teach, it’s that it’s never too late


San Pasqual Wine Bar and Gallery: Saturday, 7pm — Jim Earp. Free.


Scripps Miramar Ranch Library: Sunday, 2:30pm — Peter Sprague & Leonard Patton. Free.


Shadow Mountain Community Church: Sunday, 7pm — Bill Gaither & Gaither Vocal Band.


Smith Recital Hall at SDSU: Thursday, noon, Friday, noon, Saturday, noon — Campanile Music Festival. Wednesday, 7pm — Desert Caravan: New Jazz From Israel and Beyond. Free.


Soda Bar: Thursday, 8pm — Acid Mothers


to attempt re-creating the sound that charted HypeMachine ten years ago. You know the one: the upbeat and reverb- heavy guitar intro that either plucks or strums its way into a kitschy verse revolving around banal


Music Reviews from Our Readers


Shins return to sound if not form


By Donovan Roche


Seattle indie act’s Voids is void a new formula.


platitudes such as, “I took a shot of whisky, I hit that bottle like a brick” (“What About the Boat”), “It was so simple in the end/ Oh, I had to just start again” (“Call the Cops”), and “Little lies, it’s part of being human, it’s part of believing the illusion” (“Invisible”). Those songs, the ones that eventually build up to a much-needed climax only to stumble on a chorus that performs like sex in a dead marriage. Yes, you can try to draw out those notes, even with heavy cymbals riding behind your frenzied synths and guitars like waves, but nothing will ever make the same song stimulating after years of H&M boot-stomping it to the ground.


Nevertheless, maybe you can find comfort in knowing a band you once enjoyed still relishes in the same sound that made you fall in love with them. Hell, some have even made whole careers off treating album and song formulas like blueprints for project housing. For those who value artistic exploration, though, you might want to set your sights elsewhere.


The Shins’ return to San Diego after a five-year hiatus for two nights at the Observatory was special for more reasons than just the long absence and mini residency. To start, for many it was the first time seeing band leader James Mercer’s existing lineup (half of which joined last year). Second, the indie- rockers were about to drop their fifth studio album, Heartworms, a return to their classic sound.


Playing before a cartoonish backdrop featuring a giant skull and flowers resembling O’Keeffe paintings (imagery from Heartworms’ cover), the Shins


played a 105-minute set on this first night, combining a mix of hits (“Australia,” “Phantom


While technically proficient, the new Shins lacked chemistry.


Limb”), fan favorites (show-opener “The Rifle’s Spiral,” “Caring is Creepy”), and four new songs, including the catchy first single “Name for You.” While technically proficient, the band was lacking in visible chemistry. At times, they seemed intent on just playing the songs without much interplay. They also fiddled with a few arrangements, offering slower or faster versions; however, rather than sounding like re-imagined songs, they felt a bit off — as if a cover band couldn’t get the timing quite right. The high point of the night came during “New Slang” — the song featured in the 2004 film Garden State that yielded a pivotal turning point for the band — when the crowd sang along and volleyed hoots and hollers. But the special moment catching all by surprise came during the encore’s slow-building “Sleeping Lessons,” when Mercer & Co. worked in an interlude of Tom Petty’s “American Girl.”


Concert: The Shins Date: March 6 Venue: Observatory North Park Seats: GA


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Temple and Babylon. $12. Friday, 8pm — Teenage Bottlerocket and Mr. T Experience. $18. Saturday, 8pm — Svetlanas and Authentic Sellout. Sunday, 8pm — POW! $8. Monday, 8pm — Larry & His Flask and Flatfoot 56. $15. Tuesday, 8pm — Mayflower Madame. $8. Wednesday, 8pm — SUSTO and Cat Clyde.


Soma: Sunday, 7pm — The Head & the Heart and Dreamers. $36.


Spreckels Park: Saturday, noon — Coronado Big Band & Tokeli. Free.


St. Therese of Carmel Catholic Church: Sunday, 3pm — Mass with Ola Gjeilo & String Orchestra. Free.


Sycuan Casino Showcase Theatre: Sunday, 7pm — Herman’s Hermits Starring Peter Noone.


Til-Two: Friday, 8pm — Desert Suns and Chiefs.


Tio Leo’s: Thursday, 8pm — Blue Largo. Friday, 8pm — Graceland Elvis Tribute. Saturday, 9pm — Native Alien. Sunday, 1pm — Mike Eldred. Tuesday, 7:30pm — Sue Palmer.


Tower 13: Wednesday, 7:30pm — Cowboy Jack Band. Free.


Tower Bar: Saturday, 9pm — The Scutches.


UC San Diego Library, Geisel Library: Monday, 4pm — Springfest: Robert Morris’ Oracle.


Valley View Casino Center: Saturday, 7:30pm — Green Day.


Veterans’ Museum and Memorial Center: Sunday, 5pm — Gino & the Lone Gunmen. $10-$15.


Waterfront Park: Saturday, noon — Coastal Country Jam: Justin Moore, more. $15-$115.


Westfield University Towne Centre: Sunday, noon — Robin Henkel & Whitney Shay.


Wilson Creek Winery & Vineyard: Saturday, noon — Smoothie Jones. Sunday, noon — Raynaldo Martine.


Wine Cave: Friday, 7pm, Saturday, 7pm, Sunday, 5pm — Warren La Plante. Free.


Wine Steals: Sunday, 2pm — Kev ‘N’ Kyle. Free.


Winstons Beach Club: Thursday, 8pm — Jordan T. Friday, 8pm — I-Abide and DJ Carlos Culture. Saturday, 8pm — The Werks and Brothers Gow. Sunday, 5pm — Earl Thomas and Casey Hensley. Monday, 9pm — Electric Waste Band. $5.


CLASSICAL MUSIC


Art of Élan and the Tree Ring The latest installment of Art of Élan’s Crossfire series will feature new works by Joel P. West and the return of the Tree Ring. Thursday, April 6, 7pm; Luce Loft, 1037 J Street.


Chris Botti Grammy winning trumpeter Chris Botti will per- form jazz standards and famous classical masterpieces with his signature sophisticated sound and soaring musical imagination. Over the past three decades, Botti has recorded and performed with the best in music, includ- ing Sting, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, Josh Groban, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael Bublé, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Andrea Bocelli, Joshua Bell, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, and even Frank Sinatra. Friday, April 7, 7:30pm; $40-$75. California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N. Escondido Boulevard.


Formosa Quartet The quartet’s program will feature the world premiere of a set of Taiwanese


Tuesday, 9pm — Scott Pemberton. $6.


Wong’s Dragon Room: Saturday, 8:30pm — The Merge.


Zel’s Del Mar: Thursday, 7pm — Robin Henkel.


folk songs by Wei-Chieh Lin, Four Grappelli Jazz Tunes arranged by quartet violinist Jasmine Lin, and String Quartet No. 4 by Bela Bartok. Sunday, April 9, 3pm; $10. Conrad Prebys Music Center at UCSD, Russell Lane at Gilman Drive.


Indian Music and Dance Festival The Indian Fine Arts Academy of San Diego presents this tenth-annual event with over 75 professional artists from India (including Anoushka Shankar) performing a variety of classical and semi-classical forms of Indian music and dance, as well as academic lecture demonstrations and perfor- mances from over 100 young local students. Some events free; others $30–$40. Thursday, April 6, 6:30pm; Friday, April 7, 6:30pm; Saturday, April 8, 8:30pm; Sunday, April 9, 8:30pm; $30-$40. Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive.


Palomar Symphony Orchestra Romantic


Expressions from the End to the Beginning features the Palomar Symphony Orchestra perform- ing two pieces that represent the span of the Romantic Era: Beethoven’s 1804 Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major OP. 55 and Rachmaninoff’s haunting 1915 Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14 for vio- lin and orchestra. Performers includes Ulli Reiner, solo- ist. Directed by Ellen Weller. Saturday, April 8, 7pm; Howard Brubeck Theatre at Palomar College, 1140 W. Mission Road.


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