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San Diego Music News / Tours Are Back! • Jefferson Jay’s Acoustic Evenings at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library returns on April 29, with a line-up of Lisa Sanders, Yale Strom with Jeff Pekarek, and Sutton James • Dedicated to the late Van Bates, aka Black Hesher, Heshfest will be taking place on April 29 at Queen Bee’s. The live music festival will feature performances from Diastro, Sloat Dixon, Bloodstone The Street Preacher, Blush Bastard, The Enemy, Zak Meister, Hans Einztien and Bathwater Babies. • “Planetary Heartache” is the first single from Stacy Antonel’s (aka the Ginger Cowgirl) forthcoming album, Always the Outsider, due out June 17th. Produced and mixed by Ben Moore, who also plays Hammond B3 organ, the album features Doug Pettibone (acoustic & pedal steel guitar) and Matt Lynott (drums). www.stacyantonel.com • The best Kate Bush tribute group out there, Baby Bushka, heads to Scotland for concerts on June 4 & 5 • Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam) has joined Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Bubba Dupree (Void), Jillian Raye (Giants in the Trees) and Jennifer Johnson, for a new supergroup, 3rd Secret. Their self-titled debut album is out now. • Colin Clyne has a new single, “Wishing Winter Away.” “The lockdown winter felt like the longest winter I have known,” he said. “It seemed to be longer, darker, and colder than I recall any previous winter. I simply wanted long warm days with loved ones in the summer. I came to the realization I was focusing on the negatives and missing the small victories, missing the moments of beauty. With that in mind, I wondered how many of these I had missed throughout my life wishing dark days away, wishing winter away, sometimes it feels like half our life...” • Saxophonist Karl Denson is keeping busy! Currently touring through April 30 with the Greyboy All Stars, he follows up through May 15 with Tiny Universe, before heading out on a two-month road trip with the Rolling Stones, opening June 1 in Madrid, Spain and closing July 31 in Stockholm, Sweden • Guitarist Greg Douglass will be touring the U.K. with his group, Pompatus of Love, from April 20 through May 16. The band for this tour will consist of Rob Beckinsale (guitar), Steve Browning (bass) and Matt Wheatley (drums). • Earthless has a month-long tour of Europe starting April 28 in Manchester, wrapping up in Leipzig, Denmark on May 22. It’s going to be a whirlwind tour, also stopping in Ireland, Spain, France, Belgium, Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands • Swingin’ combo, Jason Hanna & The Swingin’ Bananas have a Thursday night resiLOCAL NEWS | LocalUmbrellaNews.com
dency at intimate downtown hotspot, Patricks II. The band includes drummer Christopher Cancelliere (The Loons) • The Inflorescence debut single, “Tomorrow Night” is out now via the Kill Rock Stars label. Featuring singer/ guitarist Tuesday Denekas, drummer Milla Merlini and bassist Sasha A’Hearn and guitarist/singer Charlee Berlin, the nearly seven minute track is a great taster for a pending album! • Katie LaDubz has joined the San Diablo AllStars, with a new album due in May • Singer Adam Lambert joins legendary British rockers, Queen, on a lengthy tour of European stadiums and arenas beginning May 27 in Belfast, Ireland and ending July 25 in Helsinki, Finland. • Multi-instrumentalist Martin Martiarena (True Stories, Slide Away) is the musical director (and lead guitarist) for the national touring production of The British Invasion - Live On Stage. The current leg of the tour closes on May 12 in Birmingham, Alabama, with additional dates already set for October. • On April 27 The acclaimed Mission Bay High Preservationist Jazz Band will perform an evening of New Orleans jazz at the Mission Beach Women’s Club, under the direction of music director JP Balmat. Balmat can also be seen around town with the Euphoria Brass Band. • Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz’s next road trip starts off with a two-night stand at Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay, July 2 & July 3. A month (or so) later the tour concludes on August 6 in Bridgeport, CT. • Troubadour Gregory Page has gone synth-pop, sort of. His new single “F the Future,” replaces his trusty guitar with synths and keys, but his melodic sensibilities remain the same, with plenty of hooks and a quirky video to match • Punk rockers Parade of Horribles have an EP release show on May 6 at the Pour House to celebrate their latest, Listen In. • Hard rockers Pierce the Veil kick off a winter UK tour on December 1 in Cardiff, closing on December 10 in Leeds.
news for fans of his legendary 1970’s era band, The Cardiac Kidz. The band will be heading into Mike Kamoo’s El Cajon based, Earthling Studios, this July for new recordings. • Schizophonics guitarist Pat Beers, also an acclaimed artist, has provided the graphics for a new guitar pedal, The Crystal Machine. Manufactured by Spain’s LoFiMind EffectZz, “for those who don’t know it, is a pretty loud and chaotic Octave Fuzz, but with the ability to clean up very well with the guitar’s volume knob. This means that with a little twist of your knob, you can go from hell to heaven,” says the company. • 90’s era powerpop combo The Shambles are planning shows and possibly new recordings later this year, with original members Ray Brandes (The Tell Tale Hearts), Kevin Ring (Manual Scan) and Mark Zadarnowski (The Crawdaddys) aboard for the project • Spice Pistols drummer Doug Walker is now also an official member of legendary punk rockers, The Dwarves • Switchfoot will co-headline a tour with Collective Soul kicking off July 15 in Gary, Indiana, wrapping up in San Antonio, Texas on September 24. The tour stops in at the Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre on August 24 • Thea the Band, aka Thea Tochihara (exSocial Club) has an album due soon, set to be titled, American Honey • On August 13 guitarist Patrick Yandall will be headlining the annual Jazz Fest in the Park, taking place in Bay City, Michigan • New Albums: Garrison Bailey – Secret Superwoman (tbd), Renee Marie - Blueberry Satin, Porcelain Hill - Good Time Not a Long Time, Billy Shaddox – Moodshine, Jackie Starr – Yadot Now, The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Step Down, Wild Wild Wets - Love Always (date tbd) • New Singles: Nisha Catron – “Life On Mars,” Calamity – “Earthquake Girl,” Falling Doves – “Shotgun,” Jewel – “Dancing Slow,” Roger! – “Fire” • New Videos: Audrey Callahan with a cover of Gayle’s “ABCDEFU”… Creature Canyon – “Mirrors”… Chloe Lou & The Lidells – “Wrong”… Aaron Markland & Seawall Prophet have a lyric video for their song “Tide Break.” The recording is produced by Sol Turpin (Safety Orange)…song surf-skate punks Wanted Noise have a new video for their song, “Get After It,”… Wild Wild Wets first song from their upcoming album, “Say So” has a new clip…
• Tori Roze and The Hot Mess release a video for their song “Seek Your Sunshine,” in advance of a short West Coast tour starting June 22 in San Francisco and closing in San Diego at the Music Box on June 30 on a bill with The Lyrical Groove and Chunky Hustle Brass Band • Guitarist Jim Ryan releases his latest effort, Acoustic Mayhem, with his Jim Ryan Project on April 28. Acoustic Mayhem” is an all-acoustic tracks album highlighting the Dylanesque (folk) punk genre that I’ve been diving into during the pandemic years,” Ryan said. Also, there’s good /LocalUmbrellaMedia
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