Things To Do In San Diego: December 6-10, 2012

It occurred to me that I haven't really posted in a few days. While Elliott and Jeff and Jordan  and Nate have been posting and handling listings, I've been more hands off lately. The Casbah is keeping me busy and I feel myself going into the inevitable nesting mode for the holidays when I'm home, and there are shows galore keeping me busy, so I'll have photos and video to post soonish. My studio is too small for a Christmas tree, but that doesn't mean I'm not in the spirit, so I'll hopefully make a trip to storage (aka mom & dad's house) to retrieve some of my holiday motif this weekend, too. I'm really looking forward to the next few days...with David Bazan tonight, Wrex The Halls tomorrow, hopefully last minute tickets to Metric on Saturday, and O'Death on Sunday. There's all kinds of fun neighborhood holiday stuff, too, as well as Bike The Boulevard and December Nights. I have no idea when I'll actually sleep but I'm sure I'll fit that in somewhere. Friday through Monday archives are after the jump. Let me know if I missed anything.


Thursday December 6, 2012:

• David Bazan, Stagnant Pools @ Casbah (SOLD OUT)
• Casbah Presents: Chris Robinson Brotherhood @ Belly Up 
• Brian Lopez @ Bar Pink 
• Monster Rally, Zochi, Mystery Cave, Sasquatch, DJ Adamnt @ Soda Bar 
• Peter Bolland & Joe Rathburn : A Night of John Denver @ Vision Center For Spiritual Learning (7pm)
• The Back Forty, S.L.F.M., Ed Ghost Tucker @ Tin Can 
• Owl Paws, Lucky and Wild, The Yes Team @ Eleven 
• Tiesto @ Valley View Casino Center 
• Honor Industries Presents: Lady Parts, Spare Parts For Broken Hearts, Gone Baby Gone @ Ruby Room
• Gripin, Hargo, Twenty7 @ The Griffin 
• Morning Glory @ The Yard 
• Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots @ La Jolla Playhouse 
• A Tribute to Little Walter w/ Charlie Musselwhite, Billy Boy, James Harman, Sugar Ray Norcia, "Little" Charlie Baty, Mark Hummel @ Anthology 7:30 & 9:30 
• Exquisite Corps, Dom Liberati @ Lestat's Head For The Hills @ Winston's 
• Tom Grrrl, Teenage Burritos, Painted Mirror @ Til-Two Club 
• Bret Michaels @ Sycuan Casino 
• Shake Before Us , Leanna May and The Matadors,  Colourvision DJs @ El Dorado 
• The Drinking Cowboy Band @ Block 16 Union & Spirits 
• The Mesa College Jazz Ensemble @ Dizzy's (4275 Mission Bay Drive) 
• Lady Dottie & The Diamonds @ Tower Bar
• Generations Party feat. CROS1, Artistic, Felt1 @ Onyx Room
• Fuzzy @ Croce's
• Dead Man's Habit @ The Go Lounge
• Allison Tucker @ Oceanside Museum of Art
• Moonlight Serenade Orchestra @ The Lucky Star Restaurant (54th & University)
• Critical Beatdown @ Kava Lounge
• Missy Andersen @ Marble Room
• EDM w/ Scooter & Lavelle @ Fluxx
• Fusion Thursdays with SLYNKEE & DJ Turbo @ U-31
• Dave Booda Experience @ Tiki House
• 80s vs Rock n Roll vs Rockabilly vs Ska @ The Flame 
• Taken By Canadians @ Boar Cross'n
• Clay Colton @ Coyote Bar & Grill
• North Star @ McP's Irish Pub
• Aaron Burr @ Jimmy Love's
• Live Band Karaoke @ 710 Beach Club

Friday December 7, 2012:

• 91X Wrex The Halls feat. The Killers (9:45), M83 (8:45), Passion Pit (7:55), Tegan & Sara (7:15), The Joy Formidable (6:45), Imagine Dragons (6:20), Youngblood Hawke (5:55), Audio Addiction (5:30) @ Viejas Arena at the Aztec Bowl, SDSU (Doors at 5pm)
• December Nights @ Balboa Park (5-10pm)
• Creepy Creeps, Mrs. Magician, Shiva Trash @ Soda Bar
• The Whammy (feat. Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray cats, Jonny Bowler of the Guana Bats and Tim Polecat of The Polecats), Big Sandy and his Flyrite Boys, Roy Rapid and the Rhythm Rock Trio @ Casbah
• The Brothers Burns & J Phatts, Soul Ablaze, Kendrick Dial, F.U.Z.Z., DJ Black Belt Jones, DJ Ant Bo @ The Griffin
• Stalins Of Sound, White Murderers, Way To Go Genius, Love Lashes @ Eleven
• Sculpins, Eskera, Nutstache @ Tin Can
• Bob Weir (solo acoustic), Jackie Green @ Balboa Theatre
• Curren$y with The League, Trackwide, Fly Ly, Jevy, F.O.E, Ghadd @ Porter's Pub
• Hip Hop vs Punk Rock feat. Azul, Zeohdeeh, Conspiracy Theorists, The Touchies @ Tower Bar
• The Amandas @ Whistle Stop
• Cuyamaca College Winter Wonder Jam 2012 feat Trailerpark Rockstar, A Mayfield Affair, Josh Damigo, Real Things Are Good, Spero @ Cuyamaca Performing Arts Theatre ($5 or 3 cans of food or 1 unwrapped toy, 7pm, All Ages)
• The Shallow End, Happy Ron @ Across The Street at Mueller College
• Slam Dunk, Linkletter, Black Panther, Plan Without a Pilot, Throne @ Che Cafe
• Eventvibe Presents Adventure Club @ House of Blues
• Reason To Rebel w/ Project Out Of Bounds, Daniel Z Project, Stircrazies @710 Beach Club
• Break The Cycle, The Amalgamated, Unsteady, Bucket Of Fish @ Ruby Room
• Kim WIlson, The Hips @ Winstons
• Walking Papers, Redmond, Phantoms, Sound Sector @ Brick by Brick
• Dave Aude @ Voyeur
• Alpha Channel @ Thruster's PB
• Faded Fridays @ U31
• Great @ Go Lounge
• Junior theDISCOpunk EDM Danceteria @ AC Lounge
• Therapy/DarkWave Garden @ The Flame
• Leon's Old School Karaoke @ Tio Leos
• Motionless In White, Chelsea Grin, Stick To Your Guns, The Witch Is Right, Upon This Dawning @ Soma
• John Foltz @ Marble Room
• Emerson, Mike Kelly @ Lestats
• Ultimate Stones, Strange Days, @ Belly Up

Saturday,  December 8, 2012:

• December Nights @ Balboa Park (Noon-10pm)
• Bike The Boulevard 2 year anniversary @ El Cajon Boulevard (12 – 1:50: Live Wire: Bike Balloon Ornaments, Happy Hour Specials & Free Bike Service, 2 – 2:50: Media Arts Center:Free Backyard BBQ & Homebrew Demo, 3 – 3:50: Soda Bar: Street Fighter II Tournament, 4 – 4:50: College Billiards: Billiards for the Brave Trick Shot Demos)
• Holiday In The Hills feat. Trio Gadjo, food trucks, Santa Claus @ Mission Hills (1600 Block of West Lewis, 5-8pm)
• Art, Everywhere! @ The Spot, Barrio Logan (all ages, 2-6pm) 
• SantaCon @ Gaslamp District 
• Holiday on Cedros @ Cedros Avenue (Solana Beach)
• Pacific Air, Hyena, Keith Sweaty @ Casbah
• 91X Holiday Bonus feat. Metric, Grand Tarantula, Beast Patrol @ House Of Blues (SOLD OUT)
• Sleep Lady, Archons, Divided By Design @ Soda Bar
• Idlehands, Being as an Ocean, Keyes, Apollo, Amorists at Large @ Che Cafe
• Fu Manchu, Honky, Freeks @ Brick By Brick
• Black Market III, Boondock Brothers @ The Griffin
• Chris Isaak holiday show @ Belly Up (SOLD OUT)
• Midnight Eagle, Billybones, Hoodrat, Poontang Clam @ Tower Bar
• Alec Metric @ Voyeur
• SDWX presents Divas @ First Unitarian Universalist Church (7pm, 4190 Front Street)
• Voodoo Glow Skulls, Left Alone, Los Kung Fu Monkeys, Oceanside Sound System, Black Hootie @ Soma
• Tom Brousseau @ North Park Vaudeville & Candy Shoppe (7:30pm)
• Jon Runion, Kyle Macneill, Platypus Egg @ Lestats
• Sy Smith @ Queen Bee's
• Unlock The Night @ 710 Beach Club
• Tommy Dubs, Ease Up, Piracy, Whisky Avengers @ 710 Beach Club
• Pink Froyd @ Winstons
• BOOTY BASSMENt @ Whistle Stop
• Saul Q/Kid Wonder @ U31
• Honey Rock @ Tio Leos
• Big Penny, Kenneth Brian Band, Young Hunter, California 666 @ Tin Can
• HOBOTECH, Luke Mandala, Nosmo Kombat, Ubiquitous, Bassmechanic @ Spin
• Mercedes Moore @ Marble Room
• Wyatt Lowe and The Youngbloods @ Humphreys Backstage
• Betamaxx @ Humphreys Backstage
• Milk Crates feat Mikey Face &Angie @ Bar Pink
• Dirty Leslie, DJ Destroyer @ Eleven

Sunday December 9, 2012:

• O'Death, World/Inferno, Bobby Joe Ebola @ Casbah
• Turbo Fruits, White Lung, Mrs. Henry @ Soda Bar
• Chris Isaak holiday show @ Belly Up
• Slower CHRISTMAS SHOW @ 710 Beach Club
• Lifehouse @ Anthology
• "d", Roxy Moonslinger, Vignette @ The Griffin 
• MercyMe @ House of Blues 
• Hocus, Kiss and Yell, Dexter Riley, Xperiment @ Ruby Room
• SDWX presents Divas @ First Unitarian Universalist Church (3pm, 4190 Front Street)
• OB-oke @ Winstons
• PROJEKT 619 @ Voyeur
• Rasta Nation @ U31
• Salsa @ Tio Leos
• Reggae Sunday @ Spin
• Mason Reed, Nathan Mceuen @ Lestats
• Robin Henkel @ Humphreys Backstage
• Vertice Williams @Humphreys Backstage
• DJS TramLife, JOEMAMA @ Bar Pink
• Merucry St. Blues, Dary's Terrible Slideshow, Kinetic, Bloodtypeg, rapscallions, City On The Brink, Mike Mule, AXTON, DJ PERCEPTION, NASE,DJ HAPPEE @ Brick by Brick
• Mercy Me @ House Of Blues
• Saul Q @ El Dorado

Monday December 10, 2012:

• Anti-Monday League Presents: Supersuckers, Fink Bombs @ Casbah
• Casbah Presents: The Mountain Goats, Matthewe E. White @ The Irenic
• Casbah Presents: Horse Feathers, Frank Fairfield @ Soda Bar
• Soda Bar & Eleven Present: The Babies, Wet Illustrated, Painted Mirror @ Eleven
• Kinky Friedman, Mojo Nixon @ Belly Up (7 pm)
• Snoop Dogg, Pac Div, DJ Artistic @ Belly Up (11 pm)
• The Tin Can Country Club feat. Trev @ Tin Can
• Soul Jazz Jam w/ The Soul Fires @ Bar Pink
• Generifus, George Pritzker, The Gift Machine, Carlz Barkley @ Che Cafe
• Dirty Mondays w/ DJ Gabe Vega @ The Saloon (Encinitas)
• Media Control, High Anxiety, Pigs @ Tower Bar
• Open Mic @ Lestat's
• Dave Scott & Monsoon Jazz @ Croce's
• Major Interval @ Humphrey's Backstage Live
• Sweet Dreams @ Tiki House
• Deejha & Walter's Jazz Jam @ Patrick's Gaslamp Pub
• Aaron Durr @ Jimmy Love's
• Electric Waste Band @ Winston's
• Karaoke @ Til-Two Club
• Dub Dynamite @ The Office
• Karaoke @ Coyote Bar & Grill
• Doug Allen @ The Kraken