58 San Diego Reader July 21, 2016
This Week In Music
Thursday
L.A. alt-rock threeway Autolux take the all-ages stage at the Irenic. After giving this year’s Pussy’s Dead a couple of jogs and a dog walk, I can tell you that the most human thing on the record is Carla Azar’s drumming. She steals the show, really, and the show is pretty engaging, like Radiohead’s Moon Shaped Pool, a conceptual techno-dystopic swat at popular anything. Which is weird, considering Beyoncé’s producer Boots helped the hibernators (they’ve been radio-silent for about six years) tie this thing together. Give it a spin, esp. “Soft Scene” and “Junk for Code,” and get up to North Park Thurs- day night. With one-man production machine Eureka the Butcher, aka Mars Volta’s Omar Rodríguez-López, opening the show, this one’s far and away the It show.... Else: the snot-punk trio from Poway, Blink-182, is back with a bang. July 1 saw the release of the rebuilt band’s seventh studio set, California, which debuted at number
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one on the Billboard charts, selling 200,000 copies despite a lukewarm critical reception. But Blink fans don’t read, they rock them naughty numbers, and they will surely pack the house when singer/ bassist Mark Hoppus, drummer Travis Barker, and guitarist/singer Matt Skiba (formerly of Alkaline Trio) take the stage at Viejas Arena at SDSU on Thursday and Friday nights. All-American Rejects and A Day to Remember will open the shows...while right across campus on Friday night (a good night to stay off the 8), accordion kook- pop maestro Weird Al plays the Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at
SDSU...and downtown, thrash-metal greats Slayer hit House of Blues for some Comic-Con–related thing. Make sure you’re properly geeked with credentials.
Friday
They call it “Four O’clock Fridays,” but the down- beat usually doesn’t come until much later after
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the Friday races at Del Mar. I certainly recommend arriving by 4p, though, if you want to beat the traffic that will no doubt be lining up to catch the first band in this season’s post-race freebie concert series, the Long Beach–based in- die-rock band Cold War Kids. The Kids have been enjoying a little top-of-the-charts action with hit single “First,” their first to go gold since 2007’s “Hang Me Up to Dry”.... Around town Friday night, Japanese avant-metal trio Boris will color Casbah Pink. They will play that classic album in its entirety after drone stalwarts
Earth...the always-entertaining Hollywood glam-rock band Prima Donna plays Til-Two with Tele- phone Lovers, Modern Kicks, and Dead on the
Wire...Archons, Bonehawk, Loom, and Beira fill a loud-n-local bill at Tower Bar....Whistle Stop sets up Aussie rock-rollers Miss Destiny with our own Bosswitch and Fictitious Dishes. Cutting and pasting from the Bosswitch Facebook: “Bosswitch is a three piece fuzzed out rock & roll band comprised of Justin Cota (Gloomsday), Ryan Schilawski (Stalins of Sound), and Tom Lord (Badabing).” Despite the punctuation/grammar errors — wow!
Saturday
Some more Comic-Con runoff on Saturday, as the TV-toon band Aquabats lands at House of Blues after Santa Barb’s geek-rock quartet Nerf Herder.... Gary Shuffler’s (Honey Glaze) Ziggy
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Shuffledust and the Spiders From Mars pay tribute to Bowie’s glammiest glam jams at Casbah after T. Rex tribute Electric Warrior, which features San Diego’s favorite rock-roll chameleons, Greg Vaughan and Diana Death.... Best of the rest Saturday night: local throwback rock act (and supa-group of sorts) Hiroshima Mockingbirds plays Bar Pink after Mittens and Pleasure Fix... doom-pop duo Gloomsday headlines sets by JJCNV, French Girls, and Badabing at Tower Bar...while up in the rurals, stellar blues-slide Brit Jack Broadbent jacks in at Ramona Mainstage.
Sunday
With a little help from their friends in R.E.M., Gary Louris and this year’s Jayhawks, which is actu- ally one of the original versions of the Jayhawks (1995–2000), dropped the stylistically sprawling Paging Mr. Proust, an alt-country record that adds some ’70s pop and countryfried punk to their Americana song style. Dave Good breaks down the new record and the Midwest band’s reunion in this week’s Of Note, so flip or click there for more on that and them, as they play Belly Up on Sunday night after No Depres- sion fave, the Portland trouba- dour Fernando Viciconte.... In the Heights Sunday night, the Virginia-based “experimetal” band Inter Arma’s at Soda Bar behind this year’s critical hit Paradise Gallows, with Withered and Strange Planet setting
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it up...while Wild Honey, Older Sun, Zachary Oakley, and Mother fill a fuzzy barroom-rock bill at Til-Two.
Monday
Casbah will do big business with Big Business Monday night. They are two-thirds of the Melvins and they are touring in support of this year’s sludge-metal offering, Command Your Weather, out now on Joyful Noise. Andy the Doorbum and Death Eyes set it up.... Veteran Detroit rapper/producer Black Milk and DC-based band Nat Turner teamed up for this year’s jazzy hip- hop hybrid record The Rebellion Sessions, which they will lay out at Soda Bar after San Diego’s own word-wise freestylist Parker Edison on Monday night.
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Brazilian bossa nova beauty Bebel Gilberto’s up at Belly Up Tuesday night behind her latest Sony disc, Tudo, which means “everything,” and it has a little bit of everything, including a chilling version of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon”.... Chuck Inglish of Michigan-based hip-hop hits the Cool Kids plays Casbah behind his new joint, Ev Zeppelin. Choo Jackson and Reese set that up...while Happy Diving, “an edgy alt-rock band from the Bay Area,” lands on the Soda Bar stage after Gem and Quali.
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Clean up your skids, kids, as Brooklyn’s disco- revival big band Escort takes the stage at Casbah Wednesday night. The nu-disco troupe is called one of the best live acts around NYC, inspiring a flash- mobby vibe with their modern remixes with old- school grooves. NPR’s All Songs Considered called last year’s Escort Records record Animal Nature “a
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perfect marriage of homage and invention.” Bump DJs will be at the decks to get it set.... If you’re not down with disco, Brian Jones Rock & Roll Re- vival and Dirty Pennies split a boogie-rock bill at Soda Bar...while Belly Up stages a locals-only show, featuring up-and-coming indie acts Sick Balloons, Hello Penelope, and Almost Young. — Barnaby Monk
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