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. ...

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, Ava...

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.” ...

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. ...

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 a...