Things To Do In San Diego: August 24-26, 2012

Summer is wrapping up and with Labor Day just around the corner, there's a ton of stuff going on the next couple of weeks. Of course, in this city we have such great weather that Labor Day doesn't really mean anything changes much around here, but there are plenty of opportunities for day drinking and nighttime shenanigans. Weekend archives are after the jump.



Friday, August 24, 2012:

• CityBeat's 10th Birthday feat. Hills Like Elephants, Wild Wild Wets, Rafter, Trio Gadjo, Animal Cracker Conspiracy @ San Diego Air & Space Museum (8pm)
• Jimmy Cliff @ Del Mar Racetrack (after final race)
• Cuckoo Chaos, Tropical Popsicle, Little Deadman, DJ Keith Sweaty @ Casbah
• Hello Echo, You.May.Die.In.The.Desert, Ditches @ Tin Can
• Rafter, Lion Cut, Jamuel Saxon (Keith solo set)@ Soda Bar
• The Natives, Mermaids, Homeless-Sexuals, Needledick DJs @ Che Cafe
• Livin on a Prayer, Dus N Bones, DJ Man Cat (9:00) @ Belly Up
• Pocket @ Whistle Stop
• Air Supply, John Waite @ Humphrey's Concerts By The Bay
• Acoustic on the Veranda feat. Chaz Mason @ Lafayette Hotel/Pool (6-8pm)
• Heal Yo Soul with The Styletones (benefit for Alternative Healing Network) @ Queen Bee's
• Revenge Death Ball, Chiefs, Brass Knuckle Voodoo & Her Bed of Thorns @ The Shakedown
• Taboo, The Ladies Lair @ Til Two Club
• Happy Ron's 7th Annual 40th Birthday Party @ Rebecca's Coffee (South Park)
• Implants, Eken is Dead, Prosthetic Arms, News From The Front, From Scars @ Ruby Room
• Atomic Groove 70s/80s Happy Hour (5:30) @ Belly Up
• Dead As Dillinger, Degero, Moosejaw @ Ken Club
• Suicide Chords, Marching Mind, Interrobang, Science Fiction Jazz, Quor @ Eleven
• The Mother Belle, Nancarrow, Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, @ The Griffin
• Colleen Green, Plateus, Cheap Curls, DJs Mario Orduno & Marco Gonzalez @ Tower Bar
• Crizzly & Seven Lions @ House of Blues
• The Gregory Page Show @ Lestat's
• Rip Carson, The Tinstars feat. Lil' Esther, Roy Rapid and the Rhythm Rock Trio @ Tio Leo's (Napa)
• Agua Dulce @ Winston's
• Secrets, At the Skylines, Author and Finisher, Lifelong, Nautilus, Fall To Ruin, The I in Self, Quorra, Forge the Sky @ Epicentre
• At Tide We Sail, Focus in Frame, Latex Grenade, A Fall from Truth @ Soma
• Rockola @ Humphrey's Backstage Lounge
• Gilberto Santa Rosa @ Blue Agave Nightclub
• Phantom Ratio, Three Bad Jacks, Death of California @ Flying Elephant
• Twista, Do or Die @ 4th & B
• Lalah Hathaway @ Anthology
• Danny & The Tramp, DJ Arox @ Gallagher's
• David Patrone @ Marble Room
• Pleasurekraft, John Roman @ Voyeur
• Djs Charlie Rock, Grandmasta Rats @ El Dorado
• New Dimension + DJ IDeal & Lost Episode: John Quivver Graham @ Spin
• DJ Homocide @ Fluxx
• Dizzy's Presents: Mikan Zlatkovich and Brian Levy@ 98 bottles
• Counter Point Culture w/ Lucky and Wild, Shoot Z Pier, and Jerry Olea and the 805 Drifters @ 710 Beach Club
• Winston Hussey meets Milton Henry w/ Lady Cellie & the Band @ Brick by Brick

Saturday, August 25, 2012:

• Amy Cole Memorial Scholarship Backyard House Concert feat. Berkley Hart, Dustin Illingworth, Marie Haddad @ Cole Family Hom (934 Catalina, Point Loma, 6:30-10pm, $20 donation)
• 6 Degrees Five  Year Anniversary Gala/Casino night benefitting Make-A-Wish feat..DJ Noel, Big Daddy Orchestra, SOS Entertainment, hosted by Carlo Ceccheto @ Westin Gaslamp (7pm)
• Mira Mesa Beer Fest feat. Lady Dottie & The Diamonds, Geezer @ Walker Wangenheim School Park
• San Diego Spirits Festival Funky Monkey, Bruce Sanborn Band, Flashpoint, Jamilla, Alex Arndt @ Port Pavilion on Broadway Pier
• Milk and Honey Hope For India Benefit Show feat. Gatsby's Fiddle, Cuates, Josh Harmony, Leanna May and the Matadors @ Shaper Studios (6310 Riverdale St, San Diego, $5, All ages, free drinks for 21+, art and more. 8pm)
• The Art of Sound feat. visual art, interactive sonic sculptures and installations, live performances by Swarmius, Kristopher Apple & Blair Robert Nelson, starvelab, Preteen Pornstar and more @ Space 4 Art (6-10pm)
• Dawg Tag Productions (new Recording Studio) Open House @ Dawg Tag Productions (3360 Sports Arena Blvd, 5-8pm)
• Three Mile Pilot, Kenseth and Brandon @ Belly Up
• The Burning of Rome, Judgment Day, Silian Rail, Subsurfer @ Soda Bar
• Deadbolt, The Hangmen, Los Loaded Saints @ Casbah
• Alejandro Escovedo, Jesse Malin @ The Griffin
• The Widows, Rats Eyes, Shark Blood @ Tower Bar
• The Queers, Jon Cougar Concentration Camp, The Postals, Stalins of Sound @ Ken Club
• Skyline Union, Brass Bed, Tall Tales & The Silver Lining @ Tin Can
• Outernational, Cabeza de Gallo @ The Roots Factory (1878 Main St, San Diego, 6pm)
• Comedy Night with Bunny Love, Clownvis Presley, Skippy Greene @ Til Two Club
• the Memphis Murder Men, the Gore Horsemen, Embalmers @ The Shakedown
• 311, Slightly Stoopid, SOJA @ Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
• Booty Bassment, DJs Dimitri and Rob Moran @ Whistle Stop
• SD Metal Swap Meet After Party with Sadistic Intent, Crepitus, Demolition, Mortuus Terror, Dissolution @ Ruby Room
• Private Event (5:00) @ Eleven
• Special Late Night Pants Karaoke (10:00) @ Eleven
• SDMETAL.org San Diego Metal Swapmeet with Aces High, Special guest Derek Riggs @ Queen Bee's
• Bite Night w/ Gemini Syndrome @ House of Blues
• Eleonor England @ Lestat's
• Elev8 @ Winston's
• San Diego 80s Big Hair Rock Star Revival featuring Viking Death, Roxauf, Back 2 Black, Snakebyte, OFU, Special Surprise guests TBA @ 710 Beach Club
• Slugfest: Cycero, Jesse Whitesage & Digital, Damm3r, 2B, ATLAS, Disarray @ Soma
• DJ SIMBA Lowk, DJ A.R.O., Osmo, DJ Ceez, DJ Luna, ALTIISSIMO @ Epicentre
• Revolt-Age (5:00)@ Humphrey's Backstage Lounge
• Betamaxx (9:30) @ Humphrey's Backstage Lounge
• The Invasion feat El Dawg, J Real @ 4th & B
• Eric Johnson @ Anthology (Early Show 7:30pm)
• Lalah Hathaway@ Anthology (Late Show 9:30 pm)
• Dannicus, DJ Chelu@ Gallagher's
• Piano Man John Foltz@ Marble Room
• DJs Dazzla, French Kiss Collective, Adam Salter, Gabe Vega, hosted by May*Star @ El Dorado
• Destructo, Samo Sound Boy, Mossberg Pump @ Voyeur
• LIFTEDent & SOUL ON BEAT celebrate 11 years of LIFTED w/ Miguel Migs, Salted, San Francisco Halo, Surface, H-Foundation @ Spin
• DJ Brett Bodley @ Fluxx
• Bring Your Pet Open Mic @ Valley Music (1611 N Magnolia Ste 310, El Cajon)
• 3rd Annual USA Roots Reggae Dub Expo 2012 @ World Beat Center
• Dizzy's Presents: Joe Marillo & Friends with Dwight Love, Reka Parker, Jeff Blanco, Bob Daniels @ 98 Bottles

Sunday, August 26, 2012:

• San Diego Spirits Festival feat. Dirty Minds, Alas De Mosca, JC Villafan, Latex Grenade, Matt Zeltzer @ Port Pavilion on Broadway Pier
• Pool Side Pow Wow feat. Barbarian, Crash and the Burns (formerly Bully), DJs Saul Q, Jeremiah Zimmerman, and Camron Zibaie @ Lafayette Hotel/Pool (1pm)
• David Dondero, Henry Wolfe, Davey Tiltwheel @Soda Bar
• El Vez For Prez, The Creepy Creeps, Schitzophoics @ Casbah
• REO Speedwagon, Rick Springfield @ Harrah's Rincon Casino Open Sky Theater
• Shrewd Lucy, Undead Garden, Twin Suns @ The Shakedown
• Great Power, Deception, Calico Kids @ Eleven (5:00)
• Pants Karaoke @ Eleven (9:00)
• Orgone, The Earful @ Belly Up
• Dreams @ Space 4 Art (share dreams, storytelling)
• Cumbia Machin @ Diamond Jim's (Chula Vista)  
• The Cactus 5, Stone Soldiers, Listening To Rocks @ Ruby Room (3-6pm, Benefir for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Team In Training) 
• NSD Presents: Omillo, Chocolate Revolution, Ashes, Summersfall, Puzzled Eyes, Viva Apollo @ The Griffin
• Rummage Presents-Manifest Art Battle (live artists and DJs) @ Ruby Room (9pm)
• The Robin Henkel Band@ Lestat's
• The Claw Hawkins Band (6::00-9:00) @ Winstons
• Jose Sinatra hosts O.B.-o-ke (10:00) @ Winstons
• Aubrey Fay @ Humphrey's Backstage Lounge (Smooth Jazz Brunch 10am-2pm)
• Patrick Yandall @ Humphrey's Backstage Lounge (8pm)
• Dropthebeat Presents Dieselboy, Man Du, Swing Naked and more @ 4th & B
• The Hips @ Gallagher’s
• Reggae Sunday @ Spin
• Slower @ 710 Beach Club