Music Trivia Night! Tonight!

TiVo Gray's Anatomy and get your ass to the Ken Club tonight for Music Trivia Night. The last one was a blast and it was a packed house, so don't be late.

Rick Lyon from the Imperial House will be playing the "name that tune" section with Pea Hix from Octagonally Yours with Adam (from Rookie Card & Blasphemous Guitars) singing.

Sign-up at 8 with Name-That-Tune with prizes for earlybirds. Part one of trivia starts at 9:00 sharp. Name that tune section starts around 10:00. The questions will cover a wide range of eras/genres.

$5 per player (or just come to see the band but keep your answers to yourself!).

Winning team splits the door admission with the musicians & organizer.

Teams are max 5 people and you choose your team, but last time several teams were thrown together last minute, so it's ok to show up alone.

Also added: LATENIGHT ADULT SPELLING BEE! 10 of the city's finest adult spellers square off on rock & roll, slang and other fun words.

Click here for even more details and pictures. No scantron or bluebook necessary! If you drink too much, you can crash on my living room floor. Now you have no excuses.

See you all tonight.

Rob Crow wears cute socks (and other weekend pics)

Finally, I have some better than my other camera pics of this weekend. I had to delete pics, so I was trying to do my best with the memory available.

I'm gonna go from most recent to oldest from the weekend:

So the last camera I captured with the better camera is of Rookie Card (just Adam and Dylan) at The Hole, a subtly named gay bar.



These are of Rob Crow at the M-Theory In-store performance:





He will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Thursday Night Thing playing his solo stuff (but probably with the band)as well as in his band Aspects of Physics.



Rob Crow wears cool socks:



These are from Friday Night:

Republic of Letters





and AFTER them A Scribe Amidst the Lions (did I mention I was drunk):

Doing San Diego Proud

Congratulations to Matt Curreri for scoring the opening slot for Rhett Miller at the Belly Up on January 14th. That's even better than Rookie Card opening for Soul Asylum, isn't it. I mean Soul Asylum may have sold more albums but Rhett's gotta be worth more for street cred. Care to weigh in, Mr. Gimbel?

Also, congrats to Augustana who will be performing "Boston" on The Late Show with David Letterman on January 3 before they embark on another headlining tour and then join up with the Goo Goo Dolls. Congrats, guys. Keep us up with any good stories from the road!

Random things

I'm feeling sick today which should explain my lack of postings. Sorry. I just have some random stuff today:

1. Rob Crow's third solo album will be out soon. You can pre-order it at Insound. Just don't order it quite yet, because I have a coupon code for you in my e-mail inbox at home that I'll post later.

2. It came to my attention that somebody was unhappy about certain postings on this site, like I'm blowing some big secrets or something. First of all, all of the information I get for posts are through MySpace, local rags like CityBeat and The Reader, and a ton of e-mail newsletters from various artists, radio stations, etc. I read through all the stuff and try to post things that specifically interest me in a more concise manner. I am almost never privy to "secret" information and everyone I know now knows that if they tell me something they don't want published, a disclaimer of "don't write this on your blog" works just fine. Secondly, if you're unhappy about something I've posted, I have all my contact information on this site. You can ask me to take something down and I probably will. Just ask me directly. That is all.

3. Troy Johnson and I met because on my old blog, I had referred to him as a tool, and he sent me a self-depracating e-mail that made me adore him. We've been friends ever since. It taught me something about judging someone before you know them, which we all do a lot of the time. People like Troy and the crew at Fox Rox and Tim Pyles and Scott Riggs and Anya Marina and Halloran and CatDirt and dorky bloggers like me ultimately do what they/we do because we love music. No toes need to be stepped on, there's room for everyone, and "the scene" is a whole lot more fun when you check your attitude at the door and try being nice every once in a while. This is as much for my readers as it is a reminder to myself.

4. If you haven't checked out my new food blog, check out the event I posted for tomorrow. A $12 Sake tasting accompanied with a $10 Sushi platter at Wine Vault. Yum. Me and Andrea are going, are you coming with??

That's really all I've got today. Maybe I need some Airborne or Zicam or something to get this brain ticking again...

I'll say goodbye with another Christmas Song link for you! This one comes from my good friend Adam of Rookie Card. Click on the song called "The Sun Always Shines On Christmas."

Rookie Card: Looking for a bassist...

No story to tell, no drama, but the Rookies need a new bassist. Good luck in your search, guys.

Big Night Out for New Years

If I actually go out on New Year's Eve, I might opt to go to this. I don't know, though...I'm not really a fan of going any further than the Ken Club on rookie night holidays...New Years, St Paddy's, 4th of July, etc...the revellers aren't trained boozers like I am. We'll see...

San Diego CityBeat once again is proud to present Big Night San Diego -- at
the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina...San Diego's biggest New Years Eve
event!

Tickets Are ALL-INCLUSIVE: * ALL DRINKS & FOOD INCLUDED * * Twelve
Unique Party Areas * * SIX Dance Floors * * Fourteen PARTY Bands & DJ's* *
Massive Midnight Celebration * * Discounted Hotel Rooms * * Party Favors &
More! *

Try your luck on the tables in the Vegas Casino Lounge - get your groove on
in the Retro Zone and the Electronica Zone, chill out at the Luau Lounge, or, if
you prefer the N'Orleans style of fun, get your beads on in the CityBeat Mardi
Gras Zone.

This year's musical lineup includes Lady Dottie & The Diamonds, Flock
of 80's, Common Sense, Blasphemous Guitars, Cover Me Badd and many more popular
acts to be announced.

Are you in a band?

This was posted by Adam of Rookie Card, Blasphemous Guitars/Cover Me Badd:

Hey folks, Cover Me Badd is going to start doing a monthly covers night the
first Friday of every month at SDSC. There will be several rotating themes that
we'll be announcing shortly but the big premiere will be another benefit for
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center. This April's Cure covers show (Ain't No Cure)
raised over $1800 for SKCC. Since Cover Me Badd's Blasphemous Guitars has
branched out from Depeche Mode covers to do songs by the Cure and the Smiths, we
decided to do a night with bands doing songs by "The Holy Trinity Of Mopedom".

We got some very cool bands to confirm (Goodbye Blue Monday, Billy
Midnight, Swandive, Marie Haddad) but there's still room for 3-5 more bands for
the benefit depending on how many songs they do. Bands can do either one, two or
three songs in any combination of DMode, Cure, Smiths or solo Morrisey songs.
Let us know ASAP while there's still some open slots. Please let me know as soon
as you can if you can play. I'm not saving spots for ANYONE so let me know
ASAP.

If you're interested, contact him via his MySpace account.

My music weekend recap

So with all my music recommendations, you didn't think I stayed home, did you?

My Friday started out with a burger and some beers at Rocky's which is the perfect way to start any weekend. After some in between time, Andrea and I headed to J Dewars Gallery to see the art of Peter Halensz. The bio said he was raised in SD, dropped out of school and lived on the street, on couches, and got into a drug and rock n roll culture. Being that he was in the scene back in the day, there were several musicians there. It made me realize how diverse the music scene is in San Diego. The art was amazing (though a relatively small collection of pieces) and Old Man Hands impressed me thoroughly. They had an accordion, mandolin, violin, guitar, and a drum box and had some friends help out with guitars in a couple of their songs. If I didn't have plans on Saturday night, I would've gone to the Che to see them again on Saturday. I met Gabe, the main vocalist and I look forward to seeing them again so I can pick up a CD.

After the gallery I went to the Rookie Card, AM Vibe & Rugburns show at the Casbah. I love Rookie Card...Adam never disappoints on stage. This was my first time seeing AM Vibe. Porter, who works at the Casbah, is in the band. They were really good, too. The Female vocalist reminded me of the Sundays. When Steve and The Rugburns came out, I have to admit I wasnt' that impressed. I've known Steve for 13 years and have been to a LOT of Rugburns shows, so maybe that is my problem- maybe I set the bar too high? Or maybe it's true that he's less "crazy" in his sobriety? I don't know but there was something lacking in the set and I wasn't the only one to leave early. I made it to the Ken Club for last call but the bands were done, so nothing to report there.

Saturday I skipped out on music. I didn't make it to Goldenboy at M-Theory. I did hang out at the Ken Club for most of the night (minus a couple hours at trivia night at Dennis') but never made it over to This Year Zero, Sirhan Sirhan, and Viva in Stereo, but it was loud and sounded good from the bar. The bar was mostly empty, so maybe people everyone was at the 94/9 show. I don't really know. But I guess we should be thankful we weren't playing shuffleboard at the Jewel Box.

As I wrote yesterday, Sunday was all about brunch, shopping, football and trivia. How was the beauty pageant? Don't forget to check out the Mints and Vinyl Radio tonight. It's gonna start early and it will be good. I promise.

Calendar

Until I get a calendar feature working on here, I'll preview the things that have my interest this week:

Tonight, Monday: Poprocks @ Beauty Bar. Two bands I've never heard of, but I trust Tim.

Tuesday: Sia, The Bird and the Bee, and Greg Laswell. Greg cannot disappoint. The Bird and The Bee have lots of indie blogger nation buzz, and Sia was great in her role in Zero 7 and has supposedly become more upbeat than before.

Wednesday: CityBeat "Best of San Diego" issue release party at HoB as Andrea's plus one, from 6-9 (with free food and beer!), then walking over to Hard Rock San Diego for the KPRI private listener show with Ray LaMontagne.
All of that is followed by Fifty on Their Heels at Pussy Galore, but I don't know if I'll have anything left in me.

FIFTY ON THEIR HEELS go on at 11....

Thursday: I'll probably stay home, but I'd like to see A Scribe Amidst the Lions, Get Back Loretta, and Goodbye Blue Monday at the Belly Up, but cost + commute +going out every other night= not freaking likely.

Friday: My best friend and her husband are coming to town, so it really depends on what they are up for, but I would love to see the show at the Casbah with The Rugburns, Rookie Card, and Steve Poltz playing solo. This may or may not happen, as I've mentioned.

Saturday: Shon Sullivan, aka Goldenboy, is doing an instore at M-Theory at 3. I met him when he opened for Neil Finn a few years ago at 4th and B and he was nice and I took a zillion pics of him. There are a shitload of shows that night, take your pick. I'll again, have to see what Neil and Alex want to do.

Here's some of them:
Brandtson & The Myriad @ SOMA
FM 94/9 4th Anniversary with The Hold Steady, Sparta and OK, Go! @ 4th and B (sold out)
Sirhan Sirhan, This Year Stereo, Viva in Stereo with Lands On Fire @ The Ken Club

And the week is still young...