Tower Bar

The Run Up, Foxgrave, City Windows @ Tower Bar, San Diego

Bristol’s The Run Up play a style of emotive pop punk reminiscent of one played by several bands along the West Coast of the United States. So, it was apt that their first show on their US tour out to The Fest 18 would begin in San Diego, California.

Tuesday 03 September 2019

Burn Burn Burn, The Lucky Eejits, Them Cuts, Fishing For Chips, Dead Ven @ Tower Bar, San Diego

Two touring bands with two newly released LPs. Seattle’s Burn Burn Burn and Oakland’s The Lucky Eejits set forth together on a trek across the western United States. Their stop in San Diego brought them to one of the premier dive bars in town, The Tower Bar, where both

Friday 02 August 2019

Midnight Track, Lightweight, Sad Girlz Club, Delma @ Tower Bar, San Diego

San Diego local ska punks were kicking off a West Coast tour. Sacramento pop punk bands Lightweight and Sad Girlz Club were nearing the end of a West Coast tour of their own. And opening the night were local hardcore heroes, Delma. They all came together at The Tower

Wednesday 24 July 2019

Flaunt, Playboy Manbaby, Squarecrow, Se Vende @ Tower Bar, San Diego

The occasion was the birthday celebration of local drummer Uriel Montes. Uriel plays in two bands, Ash Williams and Le Saboteur. But neither band played this night, because it was Uriel’s turn to party. Instead, he asked his friends to play. Flaunt is a relatively new band in the

Tuesday 09 October 2018

Divided Heaven, Matt Caskkit and the Breaks, Square Shapes, Let’s Face It @ Tower Bar, San Diego

The occasion was the release of Divided Heaven’s latest LP, ‘Cold War.’ The Los Angeles trio made their way down to San Diego’s Tower Bar on a long weekender, and were joined by locals Matt Caskitt and the Breaks, and Let’s Face It. Joining on their tour from Hawaii

Monday 09 July 2018

Pity Party, Dum Cumpsters, Spider Cider, Le Saboteur, All Beat Up @ Tower Bar, San Diego

Though they hail from different states, California’s Pity Party and Arizona’s Spider Cider set out on an adventure together, traveling across the western United States for some two weeks. The night before our nation’s celebration of Independence from Great Britain the bands stopped at San Diego’s Tower Bar. Joining

Friday 24 November 2017

Teach Me Equals, Electric Healing Sound, Of Ennui, Polux @ Tower Bar, San Diego

San Diego’s Tower Bar is usually host to punk, pop punk, and metal acts. But on this night, the eclectic and experimental were on offer. Olympia, Washington’s Teach Me Equals was just off a Southwestern USA tour and on their way home and was added to this bill only

Monday 06 November 2017

Hard Girls, Ash Williams, All Beat Up @ Tower Bar, San Diego

Halloween. All Hallows Eve. It brings out the crazies, doesn’t it? It certainly did at San Diego’s Tower Bar. This costume party brought out a packed house on a weeknight, a rare thing in the jaded Southern California city. Hard Girls toured down the West Coast from their home

Monday 02 October 2017

Dum Cumpsters, Glen Meadmore And The Kuntry Band, New Swears @ The Tower Bar, San Diego

A recent Friday night was queercore night at San Diego’s Tower Bar. Well, at least partially. Local band Dum Cumpsters bends plenty of genders with their hard-edged punk music, while Los Angeles’ Glen Meadmore And The Kuntry Band describe themselves as “gay Christian punk.” It’s an accurate description, blending

Tuesday 20 June 2017

The Slow Death, Santa Ana Knights, The Waste Aways, Chagrin @ Tower Bar, San Diego

Minnesota’s The Slow Death was certainly slow in returning to the West Coast of the USA. The last time they reached these shores was nearly three years ago. The sometimes rotating line-up for this tour included none other than the Welshman from Pale Angels, Jamie Morrison, who had just

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