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Review: Love Is All; April 17, 2010; Casbah, San Diego

Photos by Eleanore Park

It was after 11 on a Saturday, but the Casbah was relatively empty. The only people in attendance at the usually crowded venue were those who had stayed in town instead of venturing out to Coachella, but weren’t too tuckered out from excessive Record Store Day vinyl consumption. Continue reading…

Watchlist vol. 6: Phantogram

Once in a great while you hear music that just makes you feel cool.

Every time it comes on, you feel like you should be walking in slow motion, dark shades on, gliding into a room as all eyes fix on you. Maybe you’re wearing an old, black, leather jacket and flicking a cigarette as smoke billows from your mouth.

There are only a handful of groups in recent memory that have given me that feeling: Autolux, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and Leonard Cohen, to name a few. And now, thanks to their new album, Eyelid Movies, Phantogram have joined those hallowed ranks. Continue reading…

Holly Golightly Gives San Diego a Taste of ‘Medicine’

Photo credit: Troy Martin

There’s something cinematic about Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs. It’s not just that her music was prominently featured in Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers, or that the honey-voiced Golightly took her stage name from Audrey Hepburn’s character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. There’s just something in the songs’ half country, half blues aesthetic that feels perfectly suited to scoring a movie. Continue reading…