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Awesomefest 10 Friday Night @ Soda Bar, The Hideout, San Diego

Awesomefest is an annual celebration of family, pop punk, burritos, beer, pizza, and whiskey. The first weekend in September, hundreds of punks descend on San Diego, California for a weekend of some of the best pop punk has to offer. The schedule is set up so that you can

Awesomefest 10 San Diego Pre-fest @ Soda Bar & The Hideout

Every Labor Day weekend (the weekend before the first Monday in September), the world’s largest family reunion is held in San Diego. Well, it’s really a DIY pop punk fest, but it feels like a family reunion. Punks and bands from all over the country and all over the

Wednesday 31 August 2016

Pears, Direct Hit!, DMFK, Pissed Regardless @ Soda Bar, San Diego

After avoiding San Diego for nearly a year, Pears visited town twice in a two month period, and that’s reason to celebrate! The band gets tighter and stronger with every show. Touring incessantly will do that. This time out they brought recently signed Fat Wreck Chords label mates Direct Hit!,

Saturday 27 August 2016

Caskitt, The Penske File, Spanish Love Songs, On Deck @ The Doll Hut

You ever go to a show to see your friends’ bands, and that one touring band you’ve never heard of blows you away? That was the case with this show at the “World Famous” Doll Hut in Anaheim, California, in which I was first exposed to The Penske File.

Wednesday 24 August 2016

Get Dead, Western Settings, Druglords of the Avenues, Squarecrow @ Tower Bar, San Diego

Fat Wreck Chords’ Get Dead hit the road recently to support their new LP, Honesty Lives Elsewhere, and they brought along their Bay Area pals, Druglords of the Avenues (which features Swingin’ Utters vocalist Johnny Bonnel). The pair made a stop at San Diego’s Tower Bar, and rounding out the

Thursday 11 August 2016

Bad Sports – ‘Living With Secrets’

Hailing from the birthing place of some of the greats of garage punk, Denton, Texas (by way of Austin), Bad Sports are a trio comprising Orville Neeley (guitars/vocals), Gregory Rutherford (drums) and Daniel Fried (bass/vocals). Rutherford and Fried also play together in another Denton band, Radioactivity. Many of the

Friday 29 July 2016

Steve Adamyk Band – ‘Graceland’

There are certain areas of the world that, for one reason or another, breed some of the best bands and best music. Japan is one, Denton, Texas is another and the entire nation of Canada seems to be yet another. Canada’s Steve Adamyk Band are back with their fifth

Tuesday 19 July 2016

The Falcon, The Copyrights, Sam Russo, Mikey Erg @ The Ken Club, San Diego

The Falcon has been around, sort of, for more than a decade. This part-time side project super-group features Brendan Kelly and Neil Hennessy of The Lawrence Arms, Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio, and Dave Haus of The Loved Ones. In all that time, they had never been to the

Monday 04 July 2016

Great Apes, Strike Twelve, Gentlemen Prefer Blood @ Ken Club, San Diego

It’s always a fun time when friends come from out of town, and even more fun when they’re in town to play a show. San Francisco’s Great Apes came down the coast and made a stop in San Diego, and gave us a preview of their new album, due

Friday 01 July 2016

Valient Thorr, Pears, The Lumps @ Soda Bar, San Diego

It had been ten long months since Pears had last graced San Diego with their presence. And they made up for it with one of the best sets I’ve seen from them yet! They ripped through songs from their latest LP, “Green Star,” as well as their debut, “Go