Lydia Loveless & Angelica Garcia @ Soda Bar, San Diego

Lydia Loveless brought her powerful voice and her indie-Americana sounds to San Diego’s Soda Bar on a cold Friday night. Joining her on this tour to the West Coast of the USA and back was Angelica Garcia, whose indie music has a dreamy quality to it and whose gorgeous

Pansy Division, Stalins of Sound, Gunner Gunner @ Soda Bar, San Diego

Pansy Division, one of the pioneers of “queercore,” decided to celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary with a new album and tour. On their stop in San Diego they were joined by local electro-punks Stalins of Sound and rockers Gunner Gunner.

Awesomefest 10 Sunday Night @ Soda Bar & The Hideout, San Diego

Sunday night is always bittersweet at Awesomefest. Sweet, because there are more good bands to see, but bitter because it means the fest is almost over. This year was particularly bittersweet, with the announcement just before the weekend began that Southern California’s Dudes Night was calling it quits. The

Awesomefest 10 Saturday Night @ Soda Bar & The Hideout, San Diego

Saturday night, smack dab in the middle of this thing, was what most people were waiting for. The headliner of the night, closing out The Hideout, was The Arrivals. I knew most everyone else was anxiously awaiting their set, too, but I expected that many in the crowd would

Awesomefest 10 Friday Night @ Soda Bar, The Hideout, San Diego

Awesomefest is an annual celebration of family, pop punk, burritos, beer, pizza, and whiskey. The first weekend in September, hundreds of punks descend on San Diego, California for a weekend of some of the best pop punk has to offer. The schedule is set up so that you can

Awesomefest 10 San Diego Pre-fest @ Soda Bar & The Hideout

Every Labor Day weekend (the weekend before the first Monday in September), the world’s largest family reunion is held in San Diego. Well, it’s really a DIY pop punk fest, but it feels like a family reunion. Punks and bands from all over the country and all over the

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!,

Valient Thorr, Pears, The Lumps @ Soda Bar, San Diego

It had been ten long months since Pears had last graced San Diego with their presence. And they made up for it with one of the best sets I’ve seen from them yet! They ripped through songs from their latest LP, “Green Star,” as well as their debut, “Go

Bad Cop/Bad Cop, The Atom Age, The Murderburgers @ Soda Bar, San Diego

Summer tours are the best! There’s nothing better than cramming into a tiny venue and getting sweaty, jumping and shouting with your best mates to great live music. And one of the first summer tours to hit the west coast of the United States was Bad Cop/Bad Cop, The Atom

toyGuitar, Plane Without a Pilot, Squarecrow @ Soda Bar, San Diego