Earthless
Impressed by Krautrock and Japanese psychedelic bands when it launched in 2001, psych rock energy trio Earthless options drummer Mario Rubalcaba (Rocket from the Crypt, the Black Coronary heart Procession), guitarist Isaiah Mitchell (Nebula), and bassist Mike Eginton (Electrical Nazarene). The band will debut their sixth studio album Evening Parade of One Hundred Demons on January 28 by way of Nuclear Blast, with a winter tour kicking off January 27 at The Echo in L.A. Recorded with Rubalcaba’s childhood buddy Ben Moore (Diamanda Galas, Scorching Snakes), the album features a 41-minute title observe and a 20-minute music referred to as “Dying To The Crimson Solar.” In response to Eginton, “My son and I got here throughout the ‘Evening Parade of One Hundred Demons’ in a ebook of conventional Japanese ghost tales. I like the thought of individuals hiding and with the ability to hear the insanity however not see it. It’s the concern of the unknown.” Eginton additionally created the album cowl paintings. “I began researching the completely different Yōkai, the demons, and actually bought into it. It was actually cool studying about the place they got here from and what their interactions with people had been. Then I attempted to create what I imagined the occasion may appear to be. I didn’t get 100 in there, however I bought fairly just a few.”
Heather Nation
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As a teen, singer-guitarist Heather Nation was already writing songs for bands, together with her first recording studio session going down whereas she was nonetheless in highschool. She’s a founding member of synth-pop band Belladon, which was nominated for Greatest New Artist on the San Diego Music Awards, and she or he’s additionally performed with prog-groove rockers Meadow. Her solo single “Selene” dropped in December 2020. A reside efficiency video for “Selene” was produced by Solana Seashore music media group Midway Dwelling Classes, which debuted the clip on their web site. Nation has additionally taught courses in guitar, vocals, and songwriting, and even through the pandemic she could possibly be discovered acting on Thursday evenings at Nick and G’s in Rancho Santa Fe. Nation has new single referred to as “Flower,” recorded regionally at NONDOH Dwelling Studios, and blended and mastered by Los Angeles engineer Jules De Gasparis. “It is a self-love anthem,” she says, “very regionally centered, being that it is considerably of an all-star forged right here regionally that made the observe occur within the studio.” The music was lately debuted in a reside efficiency together with her Heather Nation Trio, which pairs Nation with Omar Lopez (The Wailers, B-Facet Gamers, Certain Fireplace Soul Ensemble) and Fernando Gomez (NONDOH, Gilbert Castellanos, Frankie J).
Donna Larsen
Singer-songwriter Donna Larsen performs and information acoustic music, having honed her artwork within the early 2000-teens whereas operating her San Diego Indie Acoustic Authentic Artist Showcase at space venues akin to ArtLab Studios on Adams Avenue. A self-titled Donna Larsen and the Messengers album dropped in 2019. She’s additionally been writing songs geared for youngsters’s books, which had been initially impressed by and created for her personal youngsters, regardless that her first born youngster is now of their early 20s. The mix ebook and CD tasks are co-created and self-published with collaborating artists. Her new CD and youngsters’s ebook set In My Personal Again Yard was mastered at Noisy Cricket Studio and can premiere subsequent month in La Mesa. “Amethyst Moon is a cool little mystical store the place the discharge occasion will happen on December 11,” says Larsen. “A few of the band members from my band, the Messengers, will probably be becoming a member of me to do a reside efficiency of a few of this music, and there will probably be prizes and reductions on my ebook and CD set and different in-store objects.”
X-Offenders
In style with each the punk and new wave crowds, X-Offenders had been a ska-centered band continuously noticed on the native scene within the Nineteen Eighties. They performed space venues such because the Headquarters, Dance Metropolis, Journey, the Adams Avenue Theater, and the UCSD gymnasium. Their songs earned airplay with tracks like “Layaway Plan” exhibiting up on native station 91X, and so they opened for touring headliners together with Easy Minds, Untouchables, and The Name. The band launched an EP in 1982 referred to as Conserving Secrets and techniques. Members included sax participant Joe Asaro (Guide Scan, the Solutions), guitarist Frank Glaser (later a canopy artist for the Reader), drummer Billy Bischell, bassist Paul Fehlman, keyboardist Felipe Kolbo, and singer Mark Stuart. The youngest member, drummer Billy Bischel, handed away earlier this month.
Stone Temple Pilots
Grunge pioneers Stone Temple Pilots got here collectively when their late singer Scott Weiland met New Jersey-born bass participant Robert DeLeo at a 1986 Black Flag live performance in Lengthy Seashore. The 2 Level Loma residents invited DeLeo’s brother Dean to affix on guitar and Eric Kretz (who was born in Santa Cruz — as was Weiland, although he was additionally residing in San Diego on the time) grew to become their drummer. Two useless singers later, their 2020 “An Night With” acoustic tour of North America was cancelled as a consequence of latest lead vocalist Jeff Gutt struggling a severely herniated disc. However the damage didn’t forestall their acoustic album Perdida from being launched on February 10 — Gutt’s second studio launch with the band. This previous summer time, STP launched an expanded twenty fifth anniversary reissue of their third album, Tiny Music…Songs From The Vatican Reward Store and so they launched into a full tour. Nevertheless: “Throughout routine covid-19 testing of our band and crew, we’ve got found {that a} member of our group has examined optimistic for the virus,” introduced the group. “Out of an abundance of warning, we should regretfully cancel our remaining exhibits on this present tour; our appearances in Daytona, Florida on the Welcome to Rockville Pageant and Tulsa, Oklahoma on the Skyline Occasion Middle.”
