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CicloSDias Minis May 19, 2013 CicloSDias hosts a car-free event with street closures from Balboa Drive to 8th Drive in an effort to open the park to bicycles and pedestrians. 37 other Outdoors events on Sunday, May 19
 
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Check 1, Check 2 | Music & nightlife 05.10.2013 10 days ago

Local musicians host tribute concert for Paul Williams

Proceeds will go to late rock critic's wife, Cindy Lee Berryhill, and son

- By Peter Holslin

A group of local musicians will pay tribute to the late rock critic Paul Williams in a show at Winstons on Sunday, May 12. The lineup includes psychobilly great Mojo Nixon and award-winning troubadour Berkley Hart.

Paul Williams, a pioneering rock critic who lived in Encinitas, died at age 64 last month after struggling for years with early-onset dementia. Proceeds from the show will go to Williams' widow, the celebrated singer-songwriter Cindy Lee Berryhill (who'll play a few songs at the show), and their 11-year-old son, Alexander.

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Check 1, Check 2 | Music & nightlife 05.05.2013 13 days ago

Hollywood nightclub owner taking over 4th & B

New club, a branch of Avalon Hollywood, will do business under the name Avalon

- By Peter Holslin
It looks like San Diego will soon have its own branch of the popular L.A. megaclub Avalon Hollywood. According to an application filed with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, Avalon owner John Lyons is taking over the Downtown space that formerly housed 4th & B and opening a new club under the name Avalon. 

Lyons couldn't be reached for comment, but he's listed as the officer and stockholder for a group operating under the name San Diego Entertainment Partners LLC on an application for a liquor license that was posted on the Alcoholic Beverage Control’s website last week. The application says the new club will be doing business as Avalon. 

4th & B went out of business late last year after its then-owners, Vincent and Judy Puma, were kicked out of the building by their landlord for failing to make rent payments. Not long after, they lost a protracted court battle with the club’s previous owner, Ali Nilforushan. The San Diego Reader reported that Nilforushan then took back the business and started looking for a new owner.

The sale to Lyons is now in escrow, according to the liquor-license application. This ownership change substantiates recent rumors that the cavernous Downtown venue was going to turn into an electronic-dance-music hotspot. Avalon Hollywood is known nationwide for weekly DJ nights like “Avaland,” which recently hosted German trance big-wig Markus Schulz.

In addition to owning Avalon Hollywood and the club Bardot, Lyons also founded and runs John Lyons Systems, a company that designs audio and lighting systems for big clubs and restaurants. It’s likely, then, that San Diego’s Avalon will have a banging new sound system.
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Check 1, Check 2 | Music & nightlife 04.03.2013 45 days ago

Local band hit by online prankster

Mr. Tube & The Flying Objects lose control of their Facebook page

- By Crystal Tellez-Giron
Local musicians may want to be vigilant about their Facebook privacy: It appears there’s a prankster on the loose, posing as a fan to gain control of bands’ Facebook pages and pull off creepy, unusual stunts.

On Tuesday, a Facebook user by the name of Liz Starks contacted Pall Jenkins of The Black Heart Procession, offering to help bring in fans for his side project Mr. Tube & The Flying Objects. In a Facebook message, she said that if he made her an administrator for Mr. Tube's page, she’d invite all of her friends (including, supposedly, writers for Pitchfork and Rolling Stone) to “Like” the band. 

Brad Lee, a member of the band and administrator for the page, says Jenkins didn’t think much of the request, since Starks and the band had mutual friends. But when Jenkins gave her administrative powers, she removed both Jenkins and Lee as administrators and proceeded to post vulgar comments on the page, along with images of naked obese women, toothless men in drag and, Lee says, “a weird fish that looked like a giant penis.”

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Check 1, Check 2 | Music & nightlife 04.01.2013 47 days ago

The Propagandist closes down

Owners plan to open new location, stay Downtown

- By Peter Holslin

One of the most laid-back bars in the Gaslamp has closed its doors for good. On Saturday night, the same night The Propagandist celebrated its year anniversary, the Downtown bar also had its final night of operation.

Co-owner Brian Divine says it's closing down because he and his co-owner and wife, Jessica, have lost their lease on the basement space. They'd been sub-leasing with George's on Fifth upstairs, and the restaurant has been evicted, he says.

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Check 1, Check 2 | Music & nightlife 04.01.2013 47 days ago

Watch a member of The Donkeys play sitar on 'Jay Leno'

Jessie Gulati accompanies British band Django Django

- By Peter Holslin

A while back, I wrote an article about the mad sitar skills of Jessie Gulati, a member of local band The Donkeys. Well, it turns out he's putting his skills to good use. Gulati recently performed on an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, accompanying the British rock band Django Django as they played their song "Life's a Beach." 

Watch the video below. You can see Gulati in the back left corner, sitting down and looking very serene as he gets down on the regal Indian instrument. "Wish it was The Donkeys playin' on Leno but it's still pretty exciting," he says in an email.

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Check 1, Check 2 | Music & nightlife 03.29.2013 50 days ago

Tiger Army live at House of Blues

Pyschobilly band makes crowd swoon

- By Ryan Bradford

TIGER ARMY NEVER DIE!

Twelve years ago, I pumped my fist to that rallying cry. Newly licensed and driving around in my small Mercury Tracer, I screamed over the treble of my shitty car speakers, blown from the constant abuse from punk that defined my youth.

I honestly didn't know that Tiger Army was still a band until our music editor, Peter Holslin, goaded me with the announcement they were coming to town (my love of pop-punk is well-known in the office). By my account, I thought Tiger Army had cashed in on their rallying cry and, well, died.

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Check 1, Check 2 | Music & nightlife 03.20.2013 59 days ago

Watch Pinback play on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'

Indie-rockers perform 'Proceed to Memory' and 'His Phase' from 2012's 'Information Retrieved'

- By Peter Holslin

Indie-rockers Pinback went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday to play a couple of tunes from their latest album, 2012's Information Retrieved

As Cover Me Badd's Adam Gimbel points out, the band played onstage with Roots guitarist "Captain" Kirk Douglas. Also, Rick Froberg from Hot Snakes and Drive Like Jehu sang backup. 

And if you look carefully, you'll notice Rob Crow is rocking a Residents T-shirt. The San Francisco experimentalists were pretty stoked about that, tweeting at him today, "you rock."

Watch them play "Proceed to Memory":

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Check 1, Check 2 | Music & nightlife 03.14.2013 65 days ago

Mrs. Magician frontman's gear stolen

Second time band has been hit in two months

- By Peter Holslin

For the second time in nearly two months, indie-rockers Mrs. Magician have been victimized by a thief. On Facebook today, frontman Jacob Turnbloom announced that someone swiped all of his gear from his car as it was parked outside his apartment in La Mesa early this morning. 

"Everything was stolen, everything," he wrote. "Im [sic] heart broken right now, and now I have to call the cops wait to make a report tht [sic] won't lead to anything and head to work after." 

The stolen items include his guitar, amplifier and Mrs. Magician 7-inches, LPs and T-shirts.

In an email, Turnbloom sent a detailed list of some of the gear that was taken:

  • Fender Twin Reverb amplifier. The red LED light does not work, there's a chip in one of the knobs and a burn hole in the front grill cloth. 
  • Beige / off-white Fender Telecaster. There's wear on the body where his arm rubs and a giant rectangular "fragile" sticker on the back of the guitar. It would leave a mark if peeled off. 
  • Boss DD-6 delay pedal with the initials "FWH Jacob" on it. 
  • Boss tuner pedal.
If you come across anything, contact Turnbloom at jacobturnbloom(AT)gmail(DOT)com.

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Check 1, Check 2 | Music & nightlife 03.08.2013 71 days ago

'Bonkfest' organized for injured musician

Nathan 'Bonk' Joyner recovering after getting hit by a car in September

- By Crystal Tellez-Giron
Nathan Joyner is a man of many musical projects, none of which spawned his nickname, "Bonk," a name that's stuck to him like iron-on letters to a T-shirt.   

“I had these extra letters and I was trying to figure out a word,” he says. “A friend of mine said it makes 'Bonk,' so I ironed it on a tank top and wore it all the time.” 

Joyner's perhaps best known for playing in electro-punk act All Leather with Justin Pearson, but he's also played in Some Girls, Hot Nerds and Leg Lifters, and produced and remixed tracks with DJ Mike Delgado as part of the duo Ese' & Zain

But his musical pursuits ground to a halt last September when he was hit by a car while crossing Washington Street in Hillcrest.

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Check 1, Check 2 | Music & nightlife 03.01.2013 78 days ago

Panic on the stage of Balboa Theater

Morrissey fans couldn't be contained at Wednesday's concert

- By Alex Zaragoza
Morrissey fans are a special breed. Some you can tell by their greased-up pompadour and denim jacket; others are less obvious. At Wednesday's concert at the Balboa Theater, I was surrounded by people of various ages, ethnicities and styles, and they were all screaming and raising their arms like the British singer was the second coming of Jesus. One older Latino woman who looked like a pre-school teacher wouldn't stop screaming "Papacito!" every time Moz came near.

The venue served as a beautiful backdrop, but it was clear those in charge weren't quite ready for the fandom the former lead singer of The Smiths would produce. After all, Justin Bieber he is not. Standing two feet from the stage in a makeshift pit area guarded by security, I swayed and sang along to classics like "Everyday is Like Sunday" and "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want." He sounded crisp and gave the crowd the usual Morrissey antics: a sassy whip of the microphone chord, dramatic turns and also addressed the controversy over his refusal to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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