VOLUME 6 | ISSUE 12 | December, 2021
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San Diego Music News • Thanks for watching the first season of Music Scene SDTV! Hosted by Bart Mendoza and brought to you by Concerts.Cafe as well as Local Umbrella Media, look for season two in early 2022 with even more great artists – In the meantime you can check out past episodes with performers such as Evening’s Empire (alternative rock), Skyler Lutes (reggae), The Tourmaliners (surf ), Wayne Riker (jazz), The Spice Pistols (indie rock), Ed Kornhauser (jazz), Victoria Robertson (opera), Tamar Berk (powerpop) and Bloodstone The Street Preacher (rap). Watch on your favorite platform or here: https://entertalkmedia.com/show/music-scene-sdtv • In related news Music Scene SDTV host Bart Mendoza’s 90’s era band, Los Shambles, has their album, Desde Ayer, reissued by Snap! Records next month. The album collects recordings by the band in Spanish or by Spanish bands, with demos and bonus tracks culled from various
acoustic radio sessions broadcast in Spain.
• Beatlesfair is happening March 26 at Queen Bee’s. • The Bombpops have scored a tour with the Dropkick Murphys. The St. Patrick’s Day Tour 2022, kicks off February 21 in Reading PA, running through March • The deadline for submissions for this year’s San Diego Music Awards is December 31. To be eligible music must be released before that date. More details can be found at www. sandiegomusicawards.com • Death grind favorites Cattle Decapitation will finally be touring behind their 2019 album, Death Atlas, in 2022. The A.D. 2022 Tour will also feature openers The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Creeping Death and Extinction. The road trip opens January 18 at Brick by Brick, wrapping up in Mesa, Arizona on February 20. • The Gloomies new single, “Out There,” is out now mixed and mastered by Blake Martz. *Rock and Roll San Diego is starting up a new rewards program for it’s customers in 2022. Sign up before the end of the year and score a free hour of rehearsal! time • Rolliing Stones fans won’t want to miss Exile on Kettner Blvd, taking place at the Casbah on December 24. The free event has become a beloved San Diego tradition. No word on who will be in this year’s all-star line up, but it’s guaranteed to be a great set list!
• The first-ever Outlaw Country West festival will take place Nov. 3-8, 2022 while cruising the Pacific from Los Angeles, to Cabo San Lucas and Ensenada, Mexico. The cruises performers will include Social Distortion, Lucinda Williams, X, Los Lobos, The Long Ryders, Deke Dickerson & The Whippersnappers, Steve Earle & The Dukes and San Diego related favorites The Beat Farmers, Mojo Nixon and Rosie Flores.
• Legendary San Diego coffeehouse owner Java Joe Flammini is hosting a reunion event with some of the late, lamented venues favorite performers. Java Joes Reunion will take place on January 8 at Pilgrim United Church of Christ, in Carlsbad. The night will include with appearances from Gregory Page, Tim Flannery, Berkley Hart, Lisa Sanders and Billy Galewood
a date at Red Rocks Casino in Las Vegas • Pony Death Ride’s album, The First Leon, has been issued in candy cane red vinyl, just in time for the holiday season • The Secret Squares is the name of the new all-star band which includes Cindy Lee Berryhill, Kevin Ring & David Fleminger (Manual Scan) and David Doyle (The Unknowns) • Congrats to Slack Key Ohana whose Hawaiian themed, debut Pacific Records, self-titled EP debuted this month at #2 on the I-Tunes World Music Chart! • Acclaimed writer Mike Stax has contributed liner notes to a number of recent archival releases including the Preachers (Sundazed), Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera (Guerssen Records), Thus (also Guerssen) and a Greg Prevost compilation of unreleased pre- and early Chesterfield Kings recordings for Penniman Records. Stax will soon add another
major work to his bibliography. “I’ve been working on a new book about Hungarian-American jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo with a co-author, David Holzer, who is based in Hungary,” he said. Fans of Stax’s great band, The Loons, will be happy to hear new music is on the way. “We’ve been writing new material for our next album. We’ll start recording that early next year.” In the meantime, The Loons will be part of the Che Underground Midwinter Masque event at the Casbah on February 19. • Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek has a pair of solo releases reissued on colored vinyl this month, via New West Records. Young in All the Wrong Ways will be pressed on blue with gold swirl vinyl, while a Sara Watkins & The Secret Sisters album called Saturn Return will be released on pink and white marble vinyl.
• Pop hitmakers O-Town, featuring Poway’s Jacob Underwood, is on the road through May 7, 2022, with LOCAL NEWS | LocalUmbrellaNews.com
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