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Sound Advice
Album Reviews by Tim DonnellyPacificSD approved tunes! Phantogram’s good taste and airy vocals, and Justin Beiber’s Christmas album redeems him from his baby mama drama.
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Musically Gifted
Christmas presents—to the tune of killer soundsFM 94/9 is gift-wrapping its annual Indie Jam, Holiday Hootenanny, for presentation December 3 at USD’s Jenny Craig Pavilion. Not to be outdone, 91X is re-stocking its yearly rock-out, Wrex the Halls—stuffing top acts including Death Cab for Cutie into Valley View Casino Center December 10 and 11.
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Bringing His ‘A’ Game
New mix master makes the grade at Mister A’sFor mixologist Shawn Barker, landing at the venerable Betrand at Mister A’s high above Bankers Hill is a career pinnacle.
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Sound Advice
CD reviews from PacificSD's resident music junkiePacificSD approved tunes! Elis & Tom have the “classic you should already own” and Wilco has got “the new release to check out”.
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11/11 Concert Calendar
Check out some of these hot musical numbers headed to San Diego in NovemberSnag tickets quick to see Chris Brown, The Damned, Martin Zolveig, BB King, Future Islands, Youth Lagoon, Holy Ghost! & Little Scream.
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Sound Advice
CD reviews from PacificSD's resident music junkieStephen Malkum & The Jicks, Bobby and Zee Avi will set the leisurely introspective mood for your golden autumn afternoons
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Mau5 In Da House
Mega DJ brings mind-melting stage production to Petco ParkToronto’s Joel Zimmerman (aka deadmau5) has in fact pushed his San Diego gig back two days and way up in capacity, relocating to Petco Park—for an under-the-stars, pre-Halloween extravaganza in downtown San Diego.
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Just For Show
Watch the music happenBetween Dum Dum Girls, Saviours, EMA, The Rapture, Katie Herzing, Chad Vangaalen, Stephen Malkum & The Jicks and Billy Idol, you’ll find some reason to get out of your house this month.
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Bass Is Loaded
Mixing music one (dub)step at a timeJoseph “Headshake” Maldonado is boppin’ his brain bucket to electro and bass-heavy beats as a ringleader of the local dubstep scene.
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Cause For Applause
Great American Showcase puts local bands to work for charityEardrums will be doing overtime Labor Day Weekend when downtown’s El Dorado Cocktail Lounge rolls out the Great American Showcase on September 4.
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Touching Bass
Slick new console ushers in a new era in DJingLike the translucent crime-predicting machine Tom Cruise’s character manipulates in Minority Report, the Emulator is one helluva cool electronic tool.
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Sound Advice
CD reviews from PacificSD's resident music junkieIt was only a matter of time before the reigning kings of hip-hop, Kanye West and Jay-Z, split spit-time on an album.
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Reunited Thingdom
The San Diego Music Thing returns September 9-10Toss shop-talking musicians, producers and indie enthusiasts together with more than 150 local, regional and national bands, and you’ve got the fourth annual San Diego Music Thing.
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Hear Rafter
San Diego's pop provocateur spills the beans on his forthcoming releaseMeet Rafter, a self-proclaimed, music-making nihilist. In terms of his own musical ideas, he believes in nothing.
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Sound Advice
CD reviews from PacificSD's resident music junkieFrom his groundbreaking early work with conscious rapping pioneers CL Smooth and A Tribe Called Quest to his most recent collaboration (Monumental) with Brooklyn mainstays Smif-n-Wessun, Pete Rock’s production resume is unmatched.
