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San Diego Music Notes • Submissions for the 30th Annual San Diego Music Awards are being accepted through December 20. Recordings released January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020 are eligible. Performers as well as the date for the event are still TBA. www. sandiegomusicawards.com • Angels & Airwaves guitarist Tom DeLonge is making his debut as director, with upcoming science fiction movie, Monsters of California. Delonge will also score the film, which is set to star Richard Kind (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers) and Arianne Zucker (Days of Our Lives)
including stereo / mono mixes, rare singles and four live sets recorded at New York’s Fillmore East in April 1968. The band received an SDMA Lifetime Achievement Award from then Mayor Jerry Sanders in 2010.
featuring Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov. 27th. “All proceeds go to benefit Turn Up For Recovery– the charitable movement founded by Melia Clapton to offer hope and spread awareness of abstinence-based recovery through music.” https:// surfdog.com
reissue of her debut album, Pieces of You.
• Originally issued on CD in 2003, The Beat Farmers, Live at Spring Valley Inn 1983 gets a 2 Disc, gatefold vinyl release this month, limited to 1,000 copies. The 22 songs include their own hits as well as covers of tunes by Willie Dixon, Bruce Springsteen, former Poway resident John Stewart and a version of kid classic, “Big Rock Candy Mountain.” • Guitarist Simeon Flick is releasing two very different albums this fall. First up this month is Scarlatti’s Greatest Hits For Classical Guitar, featuring the work of composer Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757). According to Flick it’s “Twelve self-produced, transcribed, performed, recorded, and mastered arrangements of Scarlatti keyboard sonatas for classical guitar.” This will be followed by, Gung Ho Hum, on the opposite side of the musical spectrum. This time out it’s “a groove-based dance party album of alternative R & B protest songs and raps, with topical, poignant, poetic and erudite lyrics.”
• Iconic 1960’s combo Iron Butterfly has a new box set; Unconscious Power – An Anthology 19671971. The 7 disc collection features 87 tracks,
• Marujah release a new album, Only The Dead, on December 20. Their last two albums took home SDMA’s for “Best World Music Album,” the latest 11 track disc includes a cameo from Loudspeaker host and DJ, Tim Pyles. • Nickel Creek fans have a lot of options this holiday season. Three of their albums, Nickel Creek (2000), This Side (2002) and Why Should the Fire Die? (2005) have been reissued on vinyl, as limited double LP’s, playing at 45 rpm. Meanwhile, a new live collection, Live From The Fox Theater, is also out now. Recorded in Oakland, CA in 2014, the album features 22 songs on limited edition coke bottle clear 180g vinyl. • Indie rock combo Rilo Kiley’s acclaimed 1999 debut album, aka The Initial Friend EP, is being reissued on colored vinyl, in a gatefold sleeve. Both guitarist Blake Sennett and bassist Pierre De Reeder attended La Jolla High School. • Tori Roze and The Hot Mess new single is a cover/COVID redo of “Ghost Town,” originally by The Specials
• Guitarist Mike Ruggirello has a new signature guitar pick, The Rugge, issued by Purple Plectrums. “This new model consists of different color optic options,” Ruggirello said of the uniquely shaped pick. “You can get creative and come up with your own tri color version.” The host of the Theory Thursday online show also has signature guitar strings available from Curt Mangan Strings • Encinitas based label Surfdog Records will release a single, Doyle Bramhall II “Be Here Now,”
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• On December 8, The Tourmaliners will host a fundraiser at Tio Leo’s for the Pacheco Mission, a nonprofit drug and alcohol recovery mission and church in Mazatlan, Mexico. The event doubles as an album release show for the band’s latest album, Surfin’ Christmas Carols, available on CD or limited edition “winter white” vinyl. • New singles / videos to keep an eye out for include Authentic Sellout’s adrenaline charged, “Cemetery,” which includes footage of singer Sulo King emerging from the grave, Brisa Lauren of Lyrical Groove with “Ode to Pretty,” troubadour Steve Poltz with the rock ‘n’ roll word explosion that is “Quarantine Blues,” Tolan Shaw (of The Bodeans) with “All Over The World,” The Orphics with a rockin’ “Kill the Virus,” Fast Heart Mart’s topical “Let’s Solve This,” acoustic & harmony duo Berkley Hart “My Song Too,” These White Pigeons with “Dangerisky,” Joe McGowan with a soulful “Marching in the Streets,” Julia Sage with “Brittle,” family rock combo Daring Greatly with “I Run,” and Robert Rankin Walker’s “Baja Moon,” written about “my day’s hitchhiking up and down Baja Ca.,” he said.
• A 1994 Jewel concert recorded in Pacific Beach, Live at the Inner Change, is being released as a 2-LP vinyl set, limited to 2,500 copies. It’s also available on CD as part of the 4 disc box set
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