I showed up early to the House of Blues, San Diego…not to see the opening bands (I ‘m very glad that I did though), but mainly because free parking starts at 6pm on Sundays. I really wanted to see the type of people that were showing up, the free parking was just a bonus. Just […]
The Reunion and Tour T-Shirts were just about all you’d see at the House of Blues for the Queensrÿche concert. On their current tour they brought with them some other heavy metal rock monsters. Recently formed metal rockers Midnight Eternal out of New York tested their brand of female-lead power rock on the Southern California […]
If you’re looking for something technically stimulating as much as it just sounds cool as hell, you need not look any further than Eden’s Curse. Did you see what I did there? Well, This band has been on the scene in Europe for a decade, stemming from a small Internet based multi-national project to a […]
It appears that this hardcore In-Your-Face Southern Californian punk HARD southern-rock sleaze-metal honky-tonk band doesn’t have a clear musical identity; anybody can find something they love from Scattered Hamlet’s sophomore full-length release album Swamp Rebel Machine. I’m tired after typing all of that, but there’s no easy way to sum up what this four-some of […]
I’ve never been to a festival before KAABOO Del Mar’s non-festival ‘mixperience’ appeared in San Diego last year. That decision has mainly been by choice, after the recounts and painful stories I’ve heard from friends who have travelled the distances. Horror stories about the smell of porta-johns, carnival-style fried foods, and virtually nowhere to cool […]
It’s been a decade since the familiar voice of Steven Tyler has graced the ears of San Diegans, and leave it to the only mix-perience of it’s kind around, KAABOO Del Mar, to bring the legendary Aerosmith back to the most southern tip of California. There were thousands of people crowding around the Sunset Cliffs […]
The Parrot head’s appeared to be dancing and swaying before the music even started, but maybe that was because of the copious amounts of alcohol consumed on day one of KAABOO Del Mar, where a crazy San Diego week’s end demanded a touch of the tropics. Jimmy Buffett and The Coral Reefer band were sure […]
KAABOO Del Mar’s second year had somewhat of a 90’s reunion on Saturday, featuring many styles and sounds to come out of my generation’s creative minds. One of my favorite groups to come out of the Alternative Rock explosion was Gin Blossoms, and I was super stoked to have the opportunity to FINALLY hear them […]
Gavin DeGraw hasn’t made a major chart-topper in awhile, but you wouldn’t know it when the crowd gathered in front of then Trestle’s stage at KAABOO. It first looked like hundreds, then out of nowhere…seconds before the lights came on, the crowd ballooned to a couple thousands fans, packed in like sardines, standing around in […]
Southern California’s own Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness settled in comfortably on the Trestle’s stage during the evening of the Day One of KAABOO Del Mar. The former Emo/punk rocker is now lending himself to a more Indi-Pop / Alternative Rock sound as he ventures out on his own. The former lead singer of Something […]