Pears, Direct Hit!, DMFK, Pissed Regardless @ Soda Bar, San Diego

After avoiding San Diego for nearly a year, Pears visited town twice in a two month period, and that’s reason to celebrate! The band gets tighter and stronger with every show. Touring incessantly will do that. This time out they brought recently signed Fat Wreck Chords label mates Direct Hit!, fresh off the release of the brilliant “Wasted Mind” LP. Making the trip up from Tijuana, Mexico were punk favorites DFMK, and rounding out the set were local hardcore thrashers, Pissed Regardless. There was plenty of energetic jumping, and Direct Hit! front man Nick Woods even bloodied his fingers and guitar. Hardcore…