52 San Diego Reader December 15, 2016
This Week In Music
Friday DANDY WARHOLS AT BELLY UP Thursday
L.A. cow-punk originators X — about to turn 40 and featuring the original lineup of John Doe, Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebreak — will rock the Casbah for four nights, Thursday (with Mike Watt), Friday (with the Blasters), Saturday (with Small Wigs), and Sunday (with Chris Shiflett). Dryw Keltz does a phoner with singer/bassist John Doe about the early days of West Coast punk and that enduring SD versus L.A. rivalry for this week’s “X times 4” Blurt.... Nobody does fuzzy flower pop like the Dandys from Portlandia, and this year’s Distortland is no exception. Singing through glim- mering morning-after music for club kids, Dandy Warhols’ frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor still excels at his “Bohemian Like You” subculture tell- alls. They take the Belly Up stage after London- ites Telegram play their “cracked, crepuscular canticles” on Thursday.... Best of the rest: elec- tronic music collective Acid Varsity stages local DJ Greyboy (All Stars) who will debut an electro set at the Kava Lounge on Kettner. MaxBetta and Al-B go first... grindcore Se- attle act Head Wound City and Minneapolis’ punky riff riot Blind Shake will play the We Eat Hate Like Love benefit for The Center at Bar Pink...while up in the Heights, New Orleans indie poppers Royal Teeth sink into Soda Bar...while down the street at the Hideout, L.A.- via-Provo beats duo Sego headlines sets by Prism Tats andWell Well Well.
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Like a hippie shaman sing- ing psychedelic rock-and- soul, Chris Robinson commands a cult of fans much like the Dead did. Touring in support of this year’s bluesy but beautiful If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home By Now, the Chris Robinson Broth- erhood will play the Observatory stage on Friday. Reader contributor Andrew Hamlin has a chat with the Black Crowes founder/singer/guitarist in this week’s “Mr. Robinson’s frontier spirit” Blurt.... Else on Friday: Hocus, Gloomsday, and Ficti- tious Dishes fill a solid alt bill at Til-Two, with Heather Hardcore spinning ’round
sets...Shot Out Hoods and Screamin’ Yeehaws bring their brand of punkabilly to Brick by
Brick...from Florida, rapping web hit Fat Nick’s at the Irenic...while the Pyrate Punx host their annual toy drive at Tower Bar, featuring hardcore sets by Pissed Regard- less, Que Oso, MondoShanks, and Die Raldo.
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CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD AT OBSERVATORY NORTH PARK
Saturday
We used to call the rapper/actor Mos Def, but times change, as do names, apparently. On his last-ever tour, Yasiin Bey will play the Observatory North Park on Saturday, premier- ing his upcoming and final album Negus in Natural Person, which features Bey rapping over music by Tame Impala. Nice. Bey will then retire from music and film, as announced via Kanye West’s website — “an odd message that hints at a nefarious South African political
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conspiracy and raises as many
questions as it answers,” according to Conse- quence of Sound.... Saturday also finds Soda Bar staging the hard-rocking Strikers with Slam Diego
bands Systematic Abuse, Christ Killer, and Iguanadon...Oaktown’s “maximum R&B surf-stomp” trio the Atom Age plays Til-Two...while Boston Strat blaster Gary Hoey’s Ho Ho Hoey Rockin’ Holiday sled slides into Ramona Mainstage up in the rurals.
MORDECAI AT THE MERROW Sunday
Giant surprise for all you area shoegazers, there’s a Grade A shoegaze group in our midst
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called Giant Surprise, and their debut’s got the goods, blamming blown-cone songs that are speak-sung in that ’gazer layback cadence. Like Crocodiles without the dancefloor agenda, Giant Surprise’s Dive kicks out a couple strolling fuzz- tone jams for discerning wallflowers. They pull into Whistle Stop to play a record-releaser after Quali and Iris Jupiter for one humming Sunday nighter at the South Park bar.... Forty-years strong East Coast punks the Freeze and almost-as-old Left Coasters Fang split a his- torical hardcore bill at Bay Park bar Brick by Brick... while Poway pop-punks Unwritten Law roll up on House of Blues with likeminded locs Pivit and MondoShanks.
Monday
Nothing says Anti-Monday like booking San Diego’s show- stopper, our odd-pop staple Gary Wilson, who will join forces with the Lulls for Casbah’s weekly rage against the day. Mr. Wilson will likely highlight his holiday LP, It’s Christmas Time with Gary Wilson, while the Lulls lay out their “magnetic” art- pop collection, Island of Daughters.... Bar Pink will open up the floor for a Soul Train Dance Party, featuring San Diego’s “essential soul revue” group Monument.
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GARY WILSON AT CASBAH
Tuesday
From Butte, Montana (“because small-town losers need something to do”), psych-punk trio Morde- cai brings their loose-string thrash to the Merrow in Hillcrest. Singer/guitarist Holt Bodish and his bassist bro Elijah claim to have been born on Dead tours in ’89 and ’92, respectively, and since their pre-teens have been bashing out this beautiful Stooges-meets-Velvets mess along with drummer Gavin Swietnicki. Fans of the brand, go hit up their bandcamp blam, and I will see you Tuesday in Hill- crest, where Le Chateau and Minor Birds open the show.... Else on Tuesday: Retox, Dabbers, and Crime Desire fill a hardcore bill at Casbah for your recommended daily allowance of ear-bleed screech and skronk...while uptown, Dirty Pen- nies “fuse blues, soul, old school rock, and garage sounds” at Soda Bar.
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A coupla Bassics, a Manual Scan’r, and Diana Death have grouped to bring you Los Fantasmas, which, according to rhythm guitarist/ Reader contributor Bart Mendoza, slings ’60s and ’70s garage-punk sung in Spanish, including covers (Los Ovnis, Sex Pistols) along with theedi- anadeath’s originals. Los Fantasmas will set the stage for Men- doza’s mod-rocking Manual Scan on Wednesday at Casbah...while you country fans get your Christmas fill up at
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Belly Up, where Nancarrow, Brawley, Nena Anderson,
and Hot Rod Lincoln will take the Solana Beach stage.
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