Surf inspired combo The Tourmaliners have been added to the Staring at the Sun XII Release Show, happening September 30 at The Casbah! They'll be playing two sets in the Razzmatazz Room, with Nathan Raney, Evening's Empire and Tamar Berk on the mainstage. Free show! Free album!
Jay Allen Sanford has an article on Staring at the Sun XIII in this weeks San Diego Reader (September 9, 2021), Staring at the Son of A Beat Farmer, with news about the album release shows headliner, Nathan Raney, as well as an additional cool event listing:
San Diego Reader: Staring at the Sun XIII event page:
www.sandiegoreader.com/sep/30/staring-sun-album-release
San Diego Reader: Staring at the Son of A Beat Farmer / Nathan Raney
www.sandiegoreader.com/staring-son-beat-farmer/
Just about the same moment captured by two different photographers at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in La Jolla circa 2008
The 30th Annual San Diego Music Awards will be broadcast on Fox-5 TV today, Sunday September 5 at 6 p.m. Bart Mendoza presents Liz Abbott and Kent Johnson of the San Diego Troubadour a special Industry Lifetime Achievement Award: www.fox5sandiego.com/on-air/program-schedule/
The Staring at the Sun XIII album release show at the Casbah on September 30 will feature music from Nathan Raney, Evening's Empire, Tamar Berk and more! Free Show! Free Album!
The September edition of Bart Mendoza's FYI column is out now! Featured in the San Diego Troubadour, this month there are details on the September 30 Staring at the Sun album release show at the Casbah with Nathan Raney, Evening's Empire and more + Five Questions for Tamar Berk and we talk cartoons with Audrey Callahan, Troy Cook, Dave Preston, Monica Sorenson and Lauren Leigh
sandiegotroubadour.com/FYI September 2021
Music Scene SDTV filmed an episode at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA this week - here is host Bart Mendoza at the museums Beatles exhibit. Photo by Billy Tisch
Staring at the Sun XIII will be issued September 30 with a special album release show at The Casbah! This edition comes in a six panel fold out sleeve with exclusive artwork from comics legend Scott Shaw!, featuring 47 tracks on two discs! The album includes long time favorites like jazz guitarist Wayne Riker, new wave rockers The Monroes, cumbia-billy quintet The Sleepwalkers, punk legends The Dinettes, surf trio Alvino & The Dwells and rockers Falling Dove with drummer Pete Best. Yes, that Pete Best. Newcomers include powerpop singer/songwriter Tamar Berk, alternative rockers Evening's Empire, prog guitarist Nathan Raney, and dream pop rock combo Sorry It's Over. Plus The Spice Pistols, Electric Mud, Mittens, The Skyler Lutes Band, Patrick Yandall, Evan Diamond, Roni Lee (Venus & The Razorblades), Sometimes Julie and John January. Then there's radio ID's from Mojo Nixon, Manual Scan, Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra and Pony Death Ride. And lots more, 47 tracks in all!
The September 30 album release show will be hosted by Hairy Scary Spice (The Spice Pistols) and Bart Mendoza (Manual Scan), with the bill topped by Nathan Raney, also celebrating the release of his solo album, Season of Serenity. Meanwhile Evening's Empire and Tamar Berk open the night, with more special guests TBA. Door at 8 p.m. 21 and up. Every attendee at this event gets a free copy of Staring at the Sun XIII, celebrating San Diego's music and comics arts community
The August edition of Bart Mendoza's Music Scene SD, available in all Local Umbrella Media newspapers includes:
An interview with Ben Hernandez of Bright West, formerly Malachi Henry & The Lights. Details on new music and singing with Mavis Staples! Plus a chat with Jerry Raney of The Beat Farmers / Glory etc about his 2021 San Diego Music Awards Lifetime Achievement trophy. Read here:
https://issuu.com/Bright West
A
San Diego centric guide to Beatles related happenings and music this weekend
and on - A new documentary from Peter Jackson, concerts from The Bajabugs with Hector Penalosa, Britain's Finest, Fred Benedetti,and The Rollers with Martin Martinarena, plus new music from Ringo Starr / Nathan East and
Wayne Riker, San Diego Beatles Fair and more. Read here:
https://issuu.com/Beatles Events & Music in San Diego
San Diego Music News from: Jason Mraz, The Cardiac Kidz, Lady Dottie & The Diamonds, Gary Puckett, Stone Horse, author Ben Johnson of the Casbah, Surfdog records releases the final Glen Campbell album, Rocket From The Crypt, Hallo Gras Cruise with The Sleepwalkers + Whitney Shay + Robin Henkel, Mark Hoppus with Arrested Youth, Sande Lollis of Enter the Blue Sky, Alvino & The Dwells and more: Read here:
https://issuu.com/San Diego Music News
A guide to upcoming music festivals, with photos of Robin Henkel, The Fremonts, Manzanita Blues, and Larkin Poe + A guide to new releases with Angels & Airwaves, Razor Nights with Diana Death, Atom Orr, Gez Keller, Sluka, Switchfoot, Bella Kay, Manuok, Subsurfer, Glass Spells and more. Read here:
https://issuu.com/Festivals and New Releases
It's here! The latest edition of Music Scene SDTV with Emily Bartell and musical guest Wayne Riker + A San Diego-centric Beatles related news round up w/ Ringo Starr & Nathan East, The Baja Bugs, The Rollers with MartÃn Martiarena, Britain's Finest and more + new releases from Angels & Airwaves, Sluka, Switchfoot and with Michelle Palermo, a look at the must have Ray Brandes book "Getting Nowhere Fast" - Theme song for Music Scene SDTV is by Alvino & the Dwells!
A few of the bands Bart Mendoza has been in over the years:
The Shambles at the Marquee / London
True Stories at the Ocean Beach Street Fair
The Very Idea in Balboa Park
The Riot Act at The Casbah
The Rarities at the North Park Spring Festival
Manual Scan at the Balboa Park Sculpture Garden
It's here! Episode 8 of Music Scene SDTV - Included is a look at
upcoming San Diego area music festivals, including the San Diego Blues festival with Larkin Poe, The Fremonts etc, The Adams Avenue Street Fair, Wonderfront and more + a chat with writer Sandra Castillo and Laurie Beebe Lewis
(Mamas and Papas / The Buckinghams) fills us in on new happenings + Professor Mike Ruggirello of Theory Thursday and more!
Music Scene SDTV has it's own page now - archived episodes include performances from Evening's Empire, Casey Hensley, Skyler Lutes, Ed Kornhauser, Audrey Callahan and The Tourmaliners - upcoming episodes include The Spice Pistols, Bloodstone the Street Preacher, Laurie Beebe Lewis, Tamar Berk and more! Plus chats with behind the scene folks like Brian A Witkin (Pacific Records), Mark Langford (Rock and Roll San Diego), Emily Bartell (Bar None Productions) and more + in each episodes first segment - lots of San Diego music news, with photos and coverage of lots of area events and bands
entertalkmedia.com/music-scene-sdtv/
Photo Album #1 features Bart Mendoza with other musicians. Future albums will also have other themes:
Music Scene SDTV airs every Friday at 6:30 p.m. on all major platforms and is later archived on Youtube
The August 2021 edition of the San Diego Troubadour includes Bart Mendoza's feature on drummer: Richard "T-Bone" Larson of Chloe Lou & The Liddells, The Amandas, Joey Harris & The Mentals and more. Read here: sandiegotroubadour.com/richard-larson-rhythm-beats-and-grooves/
and a new FYI column with Victoria Robertson, Nathan Hubbard and reviews for Big Stir Records, Anton Barbeau, Chris
Collins, Jamie King and Lannie Flowers, plus a Steve Marriott comp from Mojo!" Read here: sandiegotroubadour.com/FYI
It's
here! Episode #7 of MusicSceneSD TV hosted By Bart Mendoza - Episode 7
with Emily Bartell and Musical Guest: Jeff Berkley + Gary Puckett on
tour with The Turtles, Beatles Fair to return, Free Mon- Wed live music in San Diego
(The Casbah, Queen Bee, Navajo Live), Clapton Hook & Strange Daze at
Quartyard, Glen Campbell's new Surfdog Records release, Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra and more!
It's here! Episode #6 of MUSIC SCENE SDTV! Bart Mendoza hosts, with Emily Bartell of the San Diego Music Awards and Musical Guest: Evening's Empire + news about the San Diego Blues Festival with Larkin Poe, the Fremonts, Nikki Hill Band etc, The return of Dizzy's with Joshua White and Fred Benedetti, The Baja Bugs play "Meet The Beatles" & "The Beatles Second Album" at Humphrey's Backstage Live, in the studio with Chloe Lou and the Lidells, Sande Lollis records with Jeff Berkley, a Jason Mraz deluxe edition and more. You can view on all major platforms, it's archived on Youtube
The latest edition of Bart Mendoza's Music Scene SD is out! Free, in print or online in all Local Umbrella Newspapers, July 2021 includes:
A Conversation with Tamar Berk, plus
details on all the San Diego Music Awards showcases and words from Julia Sage
& Marujah photo + name checks for Dave Preston, Navajo Live, The Casbah, Electric Mud, Fuzz-Huzzi, Hocus, Bloodstone the Street Preacher and many more. Read here:
https://issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/07-july-2021_lum_pacific_beach/19
A conversation with Victoria Robertson of Opera4Kids and her "Enchanted Tail" production + details on new music from Tolan Shaw, Wavves, Switchfoot, Stone Temple Pilots, P.O.D. and more
https://issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/07-july-2021_lum_pacific_beach/20
San Diego Music News: w/ Three Headed Monster (Riston Diggs / Sly Beats),
Hemisphere (Rob Shinno), Blindfold Monks (David Lally, Matt Hensley), Pat Beers of Schizophonics and The Little Richards,
Tiki Oasis with The Nashville Ramblers, The Tourmaliners and Alvino & the
Dwells, Museum of Making Music reopens, Navajo Live adds a blues jam with Chickenbone Slim and Manzanita Blues, jazz at the
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library (Jaime Valle, Joshua White), Louis Brazier
moves his open mic night to the Kensington Club, Charlie Arbelaez & The Matt Hall Big Band at Queen Bee's
Art & Cultural Center, the Adams Avenue Street Fair is back, Coral Bells EP release and more! Read Here:
https://issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/07-july-2021_lum_pacific_beach/21
A Conversation with Producer Paul Berezetsky of Music Scene SDTV
https://issuu.com/printandmailexperts/docs/07-july-2021_lum_pacific_beach/18
