San Diego Shows–Thursday, Jan. 28
PLAN A: Manuok, By Sunlight, Confessions of a Corn Silo @ The Ruby Room. Talking with Manuok mastermind Scott Mercado recently, the bearded bard told me that he has two albums worth of material ready for consumption. I hope that means he’ll play some of that new electro-folk freakiness tonight. And fans of Sunny Day Real Estate and Death Cab will want to show up early for Seattle’s By Sunlight—lovely indie-pop that lives up to the band’s name. PLAN B: Dead Meat, Black Hondo @ Bar Pink. I’m not-so-secretly hoping one of those True North regulars accidentally stumbles into Bar Pink when these Florida metalheads are playing and his face melts all over his new Affliction shirt. BACKUP PLAN: Apes of Wrath, The Hot Moon, Circus Minor @ The Casbah.
OTHER COOL STUFF:
“Haiti Relief Benefit Jam” at “Generations Night” w/DJ Artistic & Cros 1 @ U-31.
Kent Smith @ Filter Coffeehouse. On his website, former Cleveland rock-poster artist Derek Hess says he needed an outlet for his “angst with right-wing politics”—so he created Please God Save Us, a book of politically and socially charged art with text by Kent Smith, a former scribe for the alt-weekly Cleveland Scene and a current member of the Board of Education for Euclid (Ohio) City Schools. The book covers the Christian Right, the Republican Party, Fox News, foreign and environmental policy, stem-cell research and lots more. Smith will sign copies of the book (each copy also pre-signed by Hess) from 6 to 9 p.m. at Filter coffeehouse (4096 30th St. in North Park) and from 7 to 10 p.m. on Friday at The Red Crow Studio (3812-A Ray St. in North Park).
“God Still Hates Polar Bears” by Derek Hess.
Irradio, Get Down to Brass, Marquez! @ Soda Bar.
Designer Drugs, Vega, Salter & Diaz @ Voyeur.
Little Fowl, John Foothills, The Gentlemen Bastards @ Tin Can Ale House.
“Track Jacket Music ” w/ DJs Ala, El Dee, Mikeytown @ El Dorado.
Timbaland, Honor Society @ House of Blues.
Harry Connick Jr. @ Copley Symphony Hall.
The Bertos, Slow Trucks @ Radio Room.
Reni Lane, Perfect Blue, Ellama, DJ Miss Lady D @ Beauty Bar.
