New! Jimmy's Buffet, 2 Guns Drawn, Wayne Riker, Floyd Armstrong, San Diego Beatles Fair and more!

Bart Mendoza's latest for all Local Umbrella Media newspapers includes: 

A spotlight on Chris Maddox's (Graceland) new band, Jimmy's Buffet + A spotlight on hip-hop duo 2 Guns Drawn (Olivia Fentress)
Read here: www.issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/downtown_may_2023_24_1_/17

An interview with singer Floyd Armstrong (The Fifth Dimension)
Read here: www.issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/downtown_may_2023_24_1_/16

A feature on guitarist Wayne Riker's return to teaching, plus Top 5 Concert Spotlights / Beatles Edition, including Fiesta Del Sol with the English Beat, B-Side Players etc., Ringo Starr at Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay, San Diego Beatles Fair at Queen Bee's, the Fred Benedetti Trio's Paul McCartney tribute at Dizzy's and the Second Annual Julian Town Square Music Festival with The Farmers, Sea Monks etc. + new release info from Sara Petite, Cattle Decapitation, Story and Tune, The Album Leaf and more!
Read here: www.issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/downtown_may_2023_24_1_/18

San Diego Music News, with info on the Spice Pistols, Blame Betty, Mike Stax and Cindy Lee Berryhill at the Nuggets tribute, Sandi King's Nikka Costa tribute at Humphreys Backstage Live, Slightly Stoopid, Skyler Lutes, Rogues of Chaos (Julian Jerry Flack of The Cardiac Kidz), Mike Ruggirello's Rotten Cabal, the California Music Hall Of Fame with Gary Puckett and Jason Scheff - and more!
Read here:  www.issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/downtown_may_2023_24_1_/19

 Print copies are always available - FREE! - at Rock and Roll San Diego!

New Concert spotlights: Rodrigo y Gabriela, Joshua White, Taryn Donath, Fleetwood Max and more

My latest for the Beach and Bay Press / La Jolla Village News, with spotlights on Rodrigo y Gabriela at Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay, Joshua White at the La Jolla Community Center, Hey! Ho! Let's Go at Campland on the Bay, Taryn Donath at Tio Leo's, Lady Dottie & The Diamonds at Beaumont's and Fleetwood Max at Humphrey's Concerts By the Bay. Read Here:
www.sdnews.com/live-from-san-diego-music-performances-on-the-coast-this-week-24

At NAMM 2023 with Greg Douglass, The Spice Pistols, Alicia Previn and more

A selection of photos taken at NAMM 2023 in Anaheim, California.

Bart Mendoza, Alicia Previn, Jim Price

Bart Mendoza, M Florentino Buenaventura (Enter Talk)

Sandra Castillo, Bart Mendoza, Greg Douglass (Steve Miller Band)

Bart Mendoza with The Spice Pistols

Nick Hanick (16 Again), Bart Mendoza

Photos by Kiki Cadiz

A selection of photos by photographer Kiki Cadiz. They include Bart Mendoza in various locations around San Diego. Used with permission.

Glynis Ward, Bart Mendoza, Richard Whig at the Whistle Stop, South Park

Scootermania at Geppetto's in Coronado

At Taang Records

In Balboa Park's Spanish Village Art Center

at Rock and Roll San Diego

At the Whistle Stop

at Rock and Roll San Diego

New Concert Spotlights: Fred Benedetti, Brian Levy, Frankie Valli and more!

Bart Mendoza's latest for the Beach and Bay Press / La Jolla Village News, with spotlights on Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons at Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay, The Mission Bay High School Honors Concert with JP Balmat, Fred Benedetti at the La Jolla Community Center, The Soul Persuaders with Larry Grano & Philip Lenud  at Tio Leo's, Brian Levy with Gilbert Castellanos & Mikan Slatkovich at Dizzy's, and the First Friday Music Club Showcase at 710 Beach Club with Hold My Beer, Fender Junkies, On the Rox, The Openers, Mothers of Intention, and The Eclectic.
Read here: www.sdnews.com/live-from-san-diego-music-performances-on-the-coast-this-week-23

New Demo Recordings!

On May 8 Bart Mendoza went into the Pacific Records studios to lay down two acoustic demos, an original and a cover.

"You're Gonna Miss Me" (Mendoza)
"Outdoor Miner" (Newman / Lewis)

The latter is a Wire cover. Brian Witkin produced the session with Billy Tisch contributing flute to "Outdoor Miner."

New FYI with Steve Rosenbaum, Riston Diggs, Joel Kmak, Allison Adams Tucker and more!

Bart Mendoza's latest FYI Column for the San Diego Troubadour, features: Five Questions for Steve Rosenbaum Music (Big Stir Records) and I ask ten area musicians: "Who Would You Like to See a Bio-Pic Of?" with Riston Diggs (The Gravities), Allison Adams Tucker, Joel Kmak (The Beat Farmers, The Hitmakers), Catherine Barnes, Patrick Yandall, JT Moring, Rick Walker (Sometimes Julie), and more.
www.sandiegotroubadour.com/23243-2