Things To Do In San Diego: March 18-19, 2015

I try to keep this a positive space and try not to vent too often, but I am finding that I have a very low tolerance for stupidity. I'm in the middle of booking the festival and I have 12-14 slots to fill, depending on how long of set times I want to dole out, and I had to send out rejection emails to about 60 bands this week. It pains me, because many of them are friends and many of them are bands I enjoy seeing live, but I have to put on the festival goggles and look through the lens of a daytime, family friendly event, with people from newborn to great grandparents strolling through North Park on a hot day. So everyone is mostly cool when I send my generic rejection. No hard feelings. Except for one stupid band who didn't even fill out the form correctly with a link to their music (one very simple requirement on the form), and this shithead sends me a nasty entitled email about how we must not have listened to them because if we had then they wouldn't be rejected. Well, sorry Carlos, but if you're too stupid to fill out my form correctly, then I can only assume you're too stupid to show up on time, line check on time, and get off stage on time to keep my festival moving. And now that I know what an entitled dick you are, I will be happy to pass along my insight to every booker in town.

Wednesday and Thursday archives are after the jump.



Wednesday, March 18, 2015:

• Joe Pug, Field Report @ Casbah
• The Juliana Hatfield Three (performing Become What You Are), The Burning of Rome @ Belly Up
• CLAMR, Bakkuda, Christine Sako @ The Merrow
• Union 13, Infirmities, DFMK @ Soda Bar
• Midnight Pine @ Whistle Stop
• W Steele pres Funked Out Wednesdays @ Bar Pink
• Party Gardens @ The Hideout
• Hamell on Trial, Jesus Gonzalez @ Lestat's
• Young Lion Series feat. Sahara Grim @ Croce's Park West
• Karaoke With Cici @ The Bancroft
• Latin Dance Party feat. DJ Ukeim & DJ Mo Lyon @ U-31
• Gilbert Castellanos Jazz Jam @ Seven Grand
• Records with Roger @ Bluefoot
• Open Mic with Jefferson Jay @ Winston's (6-9pm)
• Club Kingston Presents: Audio Republic with DJ Carlos Culture @ Winston's
• The Ratts Revenge- DJ Tiki Thomas & Mikey Ratt @ Tower Bar
• Damion Wells @ Humphrey's Backstage Live
• Andy Mauser @ Gallagher's Irish Pub
• Open Mic/Open Jam @ 710 Beach Club
• The Fooks @ Henry's Pub

Thursday, March 19, 2015:

• This Will Destroy You, Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Casbah
• Trampled By Turtles, HONEYHONEY @ The Observatory North Park (SOLD OUT)
• Saviours, Archons, Christ Killer @ Soda Bar
• DJ Ikah Love @ Bar Pink
• Buddy Banter, Wild Wild Wets, The Whiskey Circle @ Hard Rock Hotel
• Ocelot, Gene Evaro Jr. & the Family, Second Cousins @ Belly Up
• Therianthrope @ Dizzy's
• Perpetual Motion @ The Hideout
• New York Standards Quartet @ La Jolla Athenaeum
• Johnny Deadly Trio, Fanny and the Attaboys @ Sycamore Den
• Sterling@ Brick By Brick
• Tim Connolly, Andrew Abaria, Kennady Tracy @ Lestat's
• The Gregory Page Show @ Java Joe's
• Dan + Shay, Canaan Smith @ House of Blues
• Farewell My Love, Requiem @ House of Blues, Voodoo Room
• Viri y Los Bandidos, High Rolling Loners, Abe West @ The Merrow
• Darkwave Garden @ The Bancroft
• DJ Bacon Bits @ U-31
• Kevyn Lettau with Jason Shattil & Glen Fisher @ Croce's Park West
• RTyme @ Humphrey's Backstage Live
• Atlantis Rizing and Friends @ Winston's
• No Limits with Myson King @ The Office
• CONGOROCK @ Fluxx
• Moti @ Bassmnt
• Bicep, Lee K @ Bang Bang
• Junior theDISCOpunk, Antonio Aguilera @ Henry's Pub
• Kill Quanti DJs @ Whistle Stop
• Engineer, AxKan, MaxBetta, FreqMod @ Kava Lounge
• Maka Roots, DJ Reefah @ Gallagher's Irish Pub
• SB4U, Schitzophonics @ Boar Cross'n
• Mercedes Moore @ Tio Leo's