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  • 2/12 Concert Calendar
    2/12 concert listings

    Young the Giant is psyched on their new relase, Bobby McFerrin isn’t worrying, Gardens & Villa are on their way to stardom & Jake Shimabukuro is the Jimi Hendrix of ukuleles

  • 2/12 Album Reviews
    February 2012 album reviews by PacificSD's resident music junkie

    Nicki Minaj channels her alter ego Roman, a “little gay-boy,” and the Cranberries have their first album release in more than a decade.

  • 12/11 Concert Calendar
    Hot musical acts headed to San Diego in December

    The Growlers, Dazz Band, Tanner Ross, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Casbah’s New Year’s Eve at the Lafayette & more!

  • Sound Advice
    Album Reviews by Tim Donnelly

    PacificSD approved tunes! Phantogram’s good taste and airy vocals, and Justin Beiber’s Christmas album redeems him from his baby mama drama.

  • Sound Advice
    CD reviews from PacificSD's resident music junkie

    PacificSD approved tunes! Elis & Tom have the “classic you should already own” and Wilco has got “the new release to check out”.

  • 11/11 Concert Calendar
    Check out some of these hot musical numbers headed to San Diego in November

    Snag tickets quick to see Chris Brown, The Damned, Martin Zolveig, BB King, Future Islands, Youth Lagoon, Holy Ghost! & Little Scream.

  • Sound Advice
    CD reviews from PacificSD's resident music junkie

    Stephen Malkum & The Jicks, Bobby and Zee Avi will set the leisurely introspective mood for your golden autumn afternoons

  • Mau5 In Da House
    Mega DJ brings mind-melting stage production to Petco Park

    Toronto’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.

  • Just For Show
    Watch the music happen

    Between 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.

  • Bass Is Loaded
    Mixing music one (dub)step at a time

    Joseph “Headshake” Maldonado is boppin’ his brain bucket to electro and bass-heavy beats as a ringleader of the local dubstep scene.

  • Cause For Applause
    Great American Showcase puts local bands to work for charity

    Eardrums will be doing overtime Labor Day Weekend when downtown’s El Dorado Cocktail Lounge rolls out the Great American Showcase on September 4.

  • Touching Bass
    Slick new console ushers in a new era in DJing

    Like the translucent crime-predicting machine Tom Cruise’s character manipulates in Minority Report, the Emulator is one helluva cool electronic tool.

  • Sound Advice
    CD reviews from PacificSD's resident music junkie

    It was only a matter of time before the reigning kings of hip-hop, Kanye West and Jay-Z, split spit-time on an album.

  • Reunited Thingdom
    The San Diego Music Thing returns September 9-10

    Toss 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.

  • Hear Rafter
    San Diego's pop provocateur spills the beans on his forthcoming release

    Meet Rafter, a self-proclaimed, music-making nihilist. In terms of his own musical ideas, he believes in nothing.