Seaport Sessions Live Stream with Low Volts & Dirty Sweet

I wrote another thing for SoundDiego. Seaport Sessions Switch Up

SoundDiego: Aztec Brews Live Stream (and others are streaming, too!!)

It's been so heartwarming to see musicians, artists, yogis, teachers, and others embracing live streaming while we're all staying home and limiting contact. Aztec Brewing is going to be streaming artists live, and I wrote a little thing about it for NBC SoundDiego here:

Article: Aztec Brews Live Stream
Check out the livestream: Aztec Brewing Facebook

I'm also keeping an eye out for other streaming stuff, so here are a few things to save in your calendar:

"Same Same but Different Festival will be hosting a series of online live beneficiary concerts to raise awareness and give the community an opportunity to directly help musicians through this tough time. The first streaming concert will be held on Wednesday, March 18 at 7pm on the Same Same But Different website."

Seaport Sessions was scheduled, then canceled, then rescheduled to go Virtual. It will be streaming via their Vimeo channel on Thursday from 6-8pm with Tim Pyles hosting and Rowlberto Media handling the broadcast. Live performances by Low Volts and Dirty Sweet. (Please do not show up in person. You will be asked to leave and it will be super awkward for everyone.)

And if you're looking for some national acts, check out messages from Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie (streaming daily at 4pm here), The White Buffalo, Joe Pug and others who are committing to scheduled livestream concerts.

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Night & Day Street Fest

Tomorrow Saturday October 13, from 4:00 pm to midnight is the Inaugural Night & Day Street Festival on 14th and L (festival map).  If you do not have tickets good news, there are still some tickets available, and better news, use the promo code: sddialed at checkout and save five dollars a ticket.  That means you get 9 bands for $20, you can purchase tickets here.

What you need to know about the Night & Day Street Fest:
Food trucks, vendors and craft beer will be onsite
Drink tickets are $5
This festival is 21+ so make sure to bring a valid form of identification
There are no in-and-out privileges
Dogs will not be allowed
No outside food or beverages
Shirts and shoes are required for entrance
If any disorderly conduct is witnessed or reported the participant will be escorted off the property

Set Times:
Main Stage:
G. Love 10:00
Donavon Frankenreiter 8:00
Pato Banton 6:30
The Mattson 2 5:00

14th+Imperial Stage
The Styletones 10:30
Everest 9:00
The Nervous Wreckords 7:30
Low Volts 6:00
The Legacy Pack 4:30

Friday Night at The Loft: The Heavy Guilt, The Howls, Low Volts

Tonight is an amazing lineup of local talent at The Loft. The show features The Heavy Guilt, The Howls, and Low Volts. If after all this time, you still haven't been to the venue, tonight is the perfect excuse to try something different. It is Al Howard's birthday, so he's gonna go even more ballistic on the chains than usual. See you there tonight!

New Video: Low Volts "History Told Me"

Back during Rocktoberfest, I was standing with the guys in Everest while Low Volts was onstage. They were commenting on how good looking and great sounding he was, and when I said, "he's also amazingly creative and a brilliant designer," they looked at me and said, "Man, I hate that guy."  To call Tim Lowman a triple-threat is to undervalue just how talented and all around awesome he is. He's got a new video for your eyeballs and earholes, so check it out.



If you still don't have Twist Shake Grind Break, check it out here and pick it up at the next show. If you live out of town, you can buy it from BandCamp, or I'm sure you can message him and paypal and he'll send you a physical copy.

New Years Eve at the Lafayette

UPDATE! There are less than 40 tickets as of December 27 at 10 am. Buy tickets now!!

Casbah Presents New Years Eve at the Lafayette Hotel!

We love good music and we love a good party, so The Casbah and Cunning Fox have teamed up to produce a New Years Eve Party at the Lafayette Hotel that people will talk about even after the Mayans destroy the planet in 2012. (Or something like that…)

Featuring:

The Silent Comedy

Transfer

The Creepy Creeps

The Heavy Guilt

Hell On Heels Burlesque

Creepxotica

Low Volts

The Visual Underground



Food by: Tacos El Paisa

The Details:

Individual tickets for the event can be had here.
A special pre-sale rate of $25 is good thru November 16th.
Tickets are now $35 through the day of show. $40 day of show.





Hotel packages which include two tickets start at $169. They can be booked directly here.


For all the fine print, see the event page on The Lafayette's site here. 

Rocktoberfest 2011 in Photos

I don't know about you, but I had such an amazing time at Rocktoberfest. The lineup was stellar and all of the bands were not only incredibly professional, but all proved why they represent San Diego and can command festival sized stages. I arrived with The Heavy Guilt long before the gates opened to help with last minute details and make sure I had covered all my bases in getting out set times through the tweet-o-sphere and the interwebs. Luckily everything was running smooth and I had time to visit my friend Pete at True North to get some food before the festival. (If you haven't eaten at True North, you are seriously missing out. Get the juicy lucy with tots and you'll be converted.)

By the time I was back, 3pm rolled around and gates were opened. Unlike last year, when it rained and we opened gates at noon, this year the event was well attended from the start up until the finish. I can speak on behalf of West Coast Tavern and the Casbah in saying that this year's attendance blew last year out of the water. With a full bar, a good selection of beer (Beck's Oktoberfest was my personal preference all night), and re-entry allowed so you could grab a bite at a nearby restaurant if you didn't want to wait in the food truck lines, this is the perfect setup for a micro-festival. West Coast Tavern also has the nicest bathrooms in North Park, in case ya didn't know, and I sat down with Everest for awhile as they finished their dinner before their set, so that was pretty great, too. If you didn't come last year, you should know that the two facing stages was a new setup and I think it was perfect allowing the music to jump back and forth all night long. 

I'm just gonna post a couple photos and I really don't need to go through a band by band rundown because they were all fantastic....The Heavy Guilt, Low Volts, The Styletones, Bully, Dead Feather Moon, The Creepy Creeps, The Soft Pack, and Everest all delivered. Everest played a bunch of new stuff and told me they're working on a new record for the beginning of 2012. Tim Pyles did a great job as MC and even let me come up on stage and introduced me so I could get this crowd photo:



You can see my photos on Facebook if you want to tag yourselves or at SoundDiego with all of my Foursquare adventures.

Just a few of them after the jump.

Saturday: The Heavy Guilt Record Release Party

The Heavy Guilt left a huge impression on me from the very first time I saw Erik and Al set up a PA outside the Soda Bar with all their gear to promote their show the next night.

Since that night, I've had the pleasure of seeing the band many times(and eventually booking them a few times, too)and I'm happy to gave gotten to know them all over the past several months. Their first record, Lift Us Up From This completely won me over. With their second album, In The Blood , the band cements themselves as one of the best in San Diego and I suspect they're destined for great things. The record has already been nominated for the San Diego Music Awards for Best Alternative Album (a category voted on by the academy).

Tonight The Heavy Guilt is officially releasing In The Blood on vinyl and CD, and the party is not to be missed. They have all kinds of great things lined up...from live artists to a vinyl swap meet to complement the lineup that includes Black Sands, Gun Runner, and Low Volts. Best of all, the show is all ages and is only $5.

7/16 Saturday
In The Blood Release Party
The Glashaus Gallery
1815 Main St.
San Diego, CA 92113

Featuring:
The Heavy Guilt
Low Volts
Gun Runner
Black Sands

6 - 11 pm
All Ages
Beer & Wine Available



Check out four tracks from In The Blood:
04 Through The Tangles

07 In The Blood

11 Fallen

02 The Cost

Here some of what our local media is saying about The Heavy Guilt:

San Diego Citybeat
If I Were U Plan A
Urb Magazine
Sounddiego
Owl & Bear

Find the band on their Official Site, Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube

Friday the 13th: Low Volts CD Release Party @ The Casbah!

It's an EXTRAVABONANZA!!! Celebrate the release of the debut record 'Twist Shake Grind Break' by Low Volts 'one-man-band'. Performances by: Low Volts, Little Hurricane, Restavrant and Stephen Rey & the Slicks! Many surprises in store including the debut of 'The Hi-Watts'!! Beautiful people, good souls and a DOOZY of a great time are in order!! Mark your calendars now for Friday the Thirteenth in May where good luck awaits all who join us!

Check out the teaser vid!

You Can Wreck My Home Anytime... You Dirty Little Homewreckers...

Give Em Hell

little hurricane | Myspace Music Videos

Okay, so this post isn't going to win me any awards or probably teach you anything new, but If you're new to San Diego, and didn't know, The San Diego Music Award winning duo, Little Hurricane's new record, "Homewrecker" just dropped on itunes and if it doesn't win something at the SDMA's this year, then I'm going to hand them one of mine. (I'm just a pussy-lipped singer/songwriter with open mic generics anyways...) I've already listened to the album thrice, and my ears won't quit making out with my headphones. @LILHURRY's frontman, Tone, has a voice that is about ready to explode, and if you haven't met CC, then you've possibly missed the hottest drummer San Diego's ever known. (I'm totally gonna research chick drummers in SD and do a post on it... so feel free to nominate the hottest chick drummers in the "comments" section.

The best way to describe their sound is to say that they're a mix of dirty blues and california surf. They're similar to the Black Keys, White Stripes, or Cage the Elephant, but with Jon Foreman's (Switchfoot) voice. The album is wicked consistent with great songs like "Sweet Pea", "Homewrecker" and "Give Em Hell". They are a "MUST SEE" whenever they're in town and they'll be playing at SXSW 3 or 4 times this week. (You can see where on their myspace.) They are having their album release at the Casbah on April 2nd with Get Back Loretta, River City, and Low Volts. (Why it's not a "Featured" concert is beyond me... get with it, Casbah...) (9:00 start time, buy your tickets before it sells out.) (Also... if you guys want me to play a tambourine or sell merch... I will... seriously...)

I only have a small critique on the album. I've seen them play live 3 or 4 times, and I know Tone can go off even bigger on his vocals than he showed on these tracks. I would have loved to sit in the studio with them and have him scream into the mic so that it ruined his voice for a month and a half. I feel like he held a little bit of the dirtiness back, but on the other hand, CC did do a great job on her vocals. (I know that's kind of a critique, but I'm a pitch guy, ask Holslin... and even perfect 10's can miss a note or two...)

If they don't follow this album with a live record, I will go on a hunger strike and camp outside of the San Diego Zoo flinging poo at people. (That one was for you, Rosey... You go to the San Diego Zoo too much... Me and Tim Pyles both agree. I'm also not mad that you didn't invite me to SXSW, but still asked me to write in the blog. Whatever.) I'm gonna go ahead and call it now- when their live record comes out, it better win a SDMA or I'll give them my other one.

This album and band are so good, Seth Combs would probably clap once or twice.

Buy it on itunes now.

*no homes were wrecked during the writing of this blog

NYE 2011: Ticket Giveaway for Casbah & Eleven

I was up until 7am attempting to compile the most comprehensive NYE guide that I could. My listings are all here, but being a live music oriented site, I wanted to highlight two huge shows going down.


The first is taking place at the Casbah featuring Transfer, Rafter, The Shape of Future Frames, and Low Volts in the Atari Lounge. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door (if it doesn't sell out beforehand) and can be purchased HERE.

The other biggie is taking place at Eleven. The show features The Zeros, New Mexico, The Dabbers, Gun Runner and the Wild Weekend DJs. This show is $13 in advance or $15 at the door and can be purchased HERE.

There are plenty of other live music events that night, including a free show at Tin Can with DJ Ryan Hand, Lights On, Dudes, D/Wolves, The New Kinetics, so don't write off your usual music hotspots for your New Years Eve festivities.

The Casbah and Eleven have both generously given me a pair of guest list spots each to giveaway. Send me an email at sddialedin at gmail with the venue of your choice in the subject. Include your first and last name and a phone number. I will pick a winner for each show tomorrow evening and notify you via email. Must be 21 to enter. Tickets will be at will call and are non-transferable.

Update: Congrats to Mark A and Kevin K for winning the tickets.

Low Volts at West Coast Tavern, 10/7/10

Low Volts played at West Coast Tavern Thursday night. Don't accept any imitations.





More photos at www.seemichaelsphotos.com.

Tonight at West Coast Tavern: Low Volts

It's Thursday which means another fabulous night over at West Coast Tavern. Tonight we've got Low Volts, the one man band from Blackout Party's Tim Lowman.

His songs are gritty and I have a feeling if you haven't seen him yet, you'll be a fan from the first strum of the guitar.

Low Volts will start around 10pm. The show is free.