Adding to the ales, lagers, malts, IPAs, ciders and more will be the rock and roll of three great local bands–The Family Wagon, The Palace Ballroom and The Paragraphs. Okay, so they know how to rock, that’s obvious, but do they know their beers? Rock ‘n’ roll and cold suds usually go hand in hand, so we tracked down the three bands to see if they feel the same way. Here’s the seven questions we put to them and their beer-soaked answers.
The Heavy Guilt, one of San Diego’s most ambitious and engaging bands, is kicking off the launch of their third album with a monster record release party Saturday, April 6th, at The Irenic. Bringing along a few San Diego heavyweights to round out the celebration, the lineup for the night includes Little Hurricane, Dead Feather Moon, The SteelWells, and Trouble in The Wind.
Dead Squirrels clutching beer bottles, 50 Cent, Soul Boulder smoothies, food trucks, mind blowing mushrooms and Rick Springfield are just a few sites and sounds local San Diegans experienced at this year’s SXSW. Now that everyone has fully recovered from the trip, we rounded up a few locals who made the yearly pilgrimage and asked them five questions about their March jaunt to Austin, Texas.
As part of his nine city tour, Prince has announced that he will play four shows at The Legends Ballroom inside of downtown’s Hard Rock Hotel May 3rd and 4th.
The Paul Cannon Band has been using its good times and good vibes music to build a loyal throng of followers. They just successfully traversed up the West Coast, opening sold out shows for Tristan Prettyman and wowing crowds with their honest, upbeat performance. Here’s your chance to win TWO Free Tickets to The Paul Cannon Band at The Belly Up on April 25th.
San Diego’s own Josh Damigo recently trekked up the 5 freeway to Los Angeles to sing The National Anthem at the Lakers game. Singing what is known as “a real tough song to sing” in front of Kobe and the Staples Center crowd must not have been easy. How did he score the gig? Did he flub the words? What did Dwight Howard and Metta World Peace think? Here’s the skinny from Josh’s blog post about his day.
What first started out as an idea of creating a mobile music therapy space in a vintage Airstream trailer has blossomed into a much broader concept about exploring the interwoven relationship between songs and stories, music and memory. Using an old Airstream trailer as the recording space, The SongStream Project gathers the songs behind a story and the stories behind a song.
