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April, 2021 | VOLUME 6 | ISSUE 4
Local Music Notes The 2021 San Diego Music Awards nominees will be announced via a special SDMA Live Stream program on Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 5pm. You can get more details on the event at www.sandiegomusicawards.com The Beat Farmers Glad ‘n’ Greasy is reissued on July 17, in a limited edition of 1,000 copies by Blixa Sounds.
The Nights.” Record Store Day releases this year include a Jim Croce 12” 4-track EP, “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” / “Operator (That’s Not The Way It Feels),” on tangerine vinyl, and a 5-track 12” EP from Queen + Adam Lambert, Live Around the World, featuring tracks recorded in concert, 2014 – 2018.
sic songs such as The Beatles “Got To Get You Into My Life,” and Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Desafinado.” “The guitar is an orchestra and when you start to improvise the whole solar system of sound is right at your fingertips,” Sprague said. “I like taking songs that we all know and then filtering them through my musical viewpoint, hopefully arriving at a new place that still has strong ties to the original.” North County guitarist Gregg Douglass is part of a vintage live album out on May 14, Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977. Featuring a seventeen-song set, the album is packed with Miller’s hits and will be available on CD, double vinyl, and digital platforms, while a film of the concert will stream on Amazon Prime Video’s The Coda Collection. Douglass’s hit co-write, “Jungle Love” is included.
Legendary San Diego bassist Nathan East makes an appearance (at 3:15) in a new mini-doc from Ringo Starr, The Making of the Zoom In EP, with Starr referring good naturedly to him as his “second favorite bassist.” East performs on two songs featured on the EP, “Waiting For The Tide To Turn” and “Here’s To
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The Josh Rosenblum Band drops a new album, Green Eyed, on April 30. The first single will be “Drive,” featuring Richie ‘LaBamba’ Rosenberg (trombone) and Mark Pender (trumpet) of the Miami Horns / Conan O’Brien fame.
Slightly Stoopid’s new album, Live At Roberto’s TRI Studios, is due June 12. Recorded at Bob Weir’s (Grateful Dead) TRI Studios, guests include Weir, Karl Denson, and Don Carlos, as well as Ivan and Ian Neville. The album will be numbered, with a silver foil cover plus ‘silver and black smoke’ colored vinyl. Guitarist Peter Sprague has released a new album, The Secret Chord, featuring new solo acoustic guitar versions of clas-
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A documentary on iconic punk band The Zeros is in the works. Producers are looking for footage, photos and memorabilia for possible inclusion.
New Singles: Ryan Valenzuela with dreamy pop tune “Catch The Fade,” a new hip-hop tune from Miles Cartier & Colleen Wang – “Better Off (Violin Remix),” Tolan Shaw returns with the beats and grooves of “Slide Away,” dark synth driven pop combo Glass Spells with “Empty Road” New Albums: a hip-hop / rap collection from C-Siccness - Unreleased Traccz Vol.1, metal trio Beekeeper with their album Slaves to Nothing (May 7), power metal quintet Nightshadow with Strike Them Dead, rapper Ryan Anthony with Barely See the Beach 3.
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