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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
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.
Hollywood nightclub owner taking over 4th & B
New club, a branch of Avalon Hollywood, will do business under the name Avalon
By Peter Holslin
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.
Local band hit by online prankster
Mr. Tube & The Flying Objects lose control of their Facebook page
By Crystal Tellez-Giron
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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":
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.
'Bonkfest' organized for injured musician
Nathan 'Bonk' Joyner recovering after getting hit by a car in September
By Crystal Tellez-Giron
Panic on the stage of Balboa Theater
Morrissey fans couldn't be contained at Wednesday's concert
By Alex Zaragoza
