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September-October, 2021 | VOLUME 6 | ISSUE 9
• Music Scene SDTV, brought to you by Concerts.Cafe and Local Umbrella Media, airs every Friday night at 6:30 p.m. on your favorite platform, including Amazon Prime, Youtube, Facebook etc. Upcoming episodes include September 24: Tamar Berk, October 1: The Spice Pistols and October 8: Victoria Robertson • 1970’s era music icons Abba are back after a 40 year break. Video footage announcing their return includes Benny Andersson playing piano, with place of prominence given to a Taylor Guitar. • Drummer Brad Cunningham, bassist Wayne Kellerman and guitarist Mike Baier from rockers Overfall have started a new progressive hard rock/metal band called Ashes of Fate. The trio will join forces with second guitarist Tony Martinez and lead singer Tim Bortree. “We’re working on original material and looking to get out on a stage by end of this year or the beginning of 2022,” said Cunningham.
• Hit songwriter Stephen Bishop has his autobiography, On and Off, published May 2022. • Black Market III has recorded a version of the classic song by 1960’s legends, Love, “Alone Again Or.” In related news, Love Revisited, featur-
ing original Love guitarist Johnny Echols, will perform at the Casbah on October 15. The Loons open. • Classic rock heroes Chicago have
a new compilation, Japanese Singles Collection, collecting rare edits and several sung in Japanese. The 2-CD / 1-DVD collection includes the bands run of hit single featuring former Point Loman, bassist / singer Jason Scheff. • Hades Reborn is a new progressive rock trio featuring singer Lee Lake, guitarists Mike Ruggirello and John Garvey, as well as bassist Wayne Kellerman and drummer Derron Dubree. “Lee and I were writing and jamming last year and we let nature take its course,” said Ruggirello of the bands formation. The band’s first single “1983” is due in November. Ruggirello can be seen regularly on Music Scene SDTV’s Gadget Corner.
• Former Steve Miller guitarist Greg Douglass has a new band, The Sidewinders. “The singers are great,” said Douglass. “We have a bassist who is freakishly good. I’ve never been prouder to step onstage with a group of players.” The setlist includes guitar hero favorites such as “Beck’s Bolero” by Jeff Beck and “Vaseline Machine Gun” by Leo Kottke, as well as plenty of Steve Miller tunes, including Douglass own “Jungle Love.” Meanwhile, Douglass is a guest on the upcoming album from Creedence Clearwater Revival founder Doug “Cosmo” Clifford and Steve Wright of The Greg Kihn Band, For All the Money in the World • The California Guitar Trio has released a new album, Live In Scottsdale On Tour With King Crimson, recorded as part of a recent tour opening for said legendary group. The band includes Chapman stick player Tom Griesgraber: “The recording captures our entire opening set from the last show in Scottsdale, AZ and also includes videos of the entire performance,” he said. “The tour was a whirlwind of fourteen shows across eight states in less than three weeks, traveling from FL through GA, TN, TX, CO, UT, CA and finally AZ. We played in some truly historic venues like the Ryman in Nashville, Fox Theatre Atlanta and the Greek Theater in LA as well as a sports arena in Austin and several amphitheaters. It’s a joy and a challenge making music with Bert Lams and Paul Richards and I hope you enjoy the results!” • On October 2, jazz/rock/soul fusion combo Hemisphere will perform their album, American Dreams, at Humphrey’s Backstage Live. “This will be a ten-piece band performance,” said the band’s guitarist, Rob Shinno. “We have a lot of pent-up energy for our first
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show back and plan to blow the roof off the place.” The bill includes the Grant Clarkson Trio opening the night and the Hemi-Funkadelics to close the show. Hemisphere is currently in the studio working with producer Peter Sprague. • Blues favorites The January Berry Band are at Grease Punk Studio working on original music for an upcoming album • The Casbah’s Ben Johnson has a book release event on September 25 at Verbatim Books (4-7 p.m.) The celebration spotlights Johnson’s latest, “Children of the Web,” book three of the Webworld Trilogy
• Legendary 1960’s era San Diego garage rockers, The Lyrics will have their 1965 single “So What / They Can’t Hurt Me” reissued by British label Big Beat / Ace Records this month. Both songs are also included on the Various Artists compilation: Blow My Mind! The Doré-Era-Mira Punk & Psych Legacy, also from Ace.
• The Grand Ole Opry has released a new merchandise line featuring former Oceanside country star, Barbara Mandrell, in celebration of her signature hit “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool.” The items include “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool” branded shirts, posters, and coffee mugs and more. Mandrell ultimately scored 50 Top 40 Country hits, including six #1’s. • “We are a unique novelty variety duo,” says Danny D of The Microphone Doctors. “We just released our latest single, “The Deuce & Mom’s Spaghetti,” which is hip hop take on classic children’s songs.” The pair have a new album out on Halloween called, Together with Two, which will be released alongside a children’s picture book and is set to feature a “pronouns song.” “I have had two other books in the San Diego Library and am excited to release a new book, on inclusion and diversity!” www.themicrophonedoctors.com • Plosivs is the name of the new @LocalUmbrellaMedia
band featuring Rob Crow (Pinback etc), John Reis (Drive Like Jehu / Rocket From The Crypt), Atom Willard (drums - Against Me!, Angels & Airwaves) and Jordan Clark (bass - Mrs. Magician). The first song from the band “Hit The Breaks” is out now, they make their live San Diego debut November 5 at the Quartyard. • Residency news: Violinist Alicia Previn performs a solo show, Through the Decades, every Sunday at the Jacked Up Brewery in Escondido. Set times alternate each week so check the venue listings. Previn performs solo (with loops and backings) versions of classic songs from various eras. Previn can be heard on several chart recordings including General Public’s “Come Again” (1986), Cracker’s “Mr. Wrong” (1992), The Hothouse Flowers “Easier In The Morning” (1987) and The Communards “You Are My World” (1984) • Powerpop fave Steve Rosenbaum will be featured on a second Asa Brebner tribute album, “I Am Not Gone 2”, due to be released later this year. “Asa was a Boston institution,” said Rosenbaum. “I covered his song, “I Walk The Streets.” Brebner was a former member of such iconic 1970’s era bands as Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers and Robin Lane and the Chartbusters. • Rap trio Sky Tower Click has released a new single / video “4Life,” from the forthcoming album, Came A Long Way”. Sky Tower Click is rappers Mackvillin, Nasty-O and Hustle Mac. • Switchfoot has just dropped the fifth single / video, “Lost Cause,” from their latest album, Interrobang. Collectors alert: The band has recently issued a slew of new cool merch as well as made Interrobang available in six different colored vinyl limited editions
• Deven Berryhill of The Tourmaliners also performs with iconic combo The Surfari’s. At a festival date in Marysville, Michigan on August 28, the band was joined onstage by Anson William of 1970’s sitcom, Happy Days, for a dance through “Misrilou” • In local label news: Surfdog Records has just released rock-a-billy icon Brian Setzer’s first solo album in seven years, Gotta Have The Rumble. The album’s second single is “Smash Up On Highway One.” Meanwhile, Pacific Records has signed Star Vox Lullaby, with a new single out now, “Love Inside Out” and an EP, Venus 1, Out September 24. Notably, Star Vox Lullaby is a group composed of Patricio A. Pickslay (AKA Lotus), Jon Wuebben (AKA J Dub), and J Scott Bergman (AKA L Nuclear), all of which have independent releases with Pacific prior to the formation of the band.
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