5 Songs To Discover In San Diego In October
Speaker 1: 00:00 With touring on pause and no bands coming to town. It's nice to know that local bands are still releasing new music, KPBS arts editor, Julia Dixon Evans is here with five new tracks from bands in the San Diego and Tijuana region. And one that got away. Welcome, Julia. I am Maureen. First up is a solo work from an artist you may have heard of from the redwoods music band, Danny bill and the Taranto. Just what has Danny bell come up with on her own? Well, she's been working on some new solo work and just dropped a single, got hue. It's a quick ramp, just two and a half minutes that her vocals are hypnotic and delightful. And the track has a hopeful romance to it. Yeah, Speaker 2: 01:15 [inaudible] Speaker 1: 01:19 Was got you a new single by Danny bell. And if you want more from Danny, she just performed at the Casbah alongside low volts. This past weekend, the venue is empty, but it streamed live from Twitch. I've been really loving these shows and you can watch the saved videos still on their Twitch channel. And next, we have a track from emerging act Ingo noir from a benefit compilation. So tell us about alien boy. Yeah. So I've mentioned this compilation before it's by Craig Oliver's Volare records. It's called presence, not absence, a benefit with proceeds going to SD queer black housing and a few other regional organizations, but local RNB duo in Guidewire offered two tracks, including the summers alien boy Speaker 2: 02:44 [inaudible] Speaker 1: 02:46 Alien boy by England wire. Those vocal layers are really impressive and I love their production. It's both sparkling and raw, and the track feels somewhere between a love song and a surrender. It's really devastating song craning. That's kind of toe-tapping at the same time and the full compilations worth of listen. So check out all our records band camp. I also really love the take on Dylan's ballad of Hollis Brown by Cody Blanchard of Shannon and the clams. Okay. So moving on, she a born a Vanessa Samora has a new single let's have a listen to ya. Speaker 1: 04:00 So that's air five, Vanessa Zamora, I air translates to yesterday and Zamora has a really unique mix of indie folk pop and RNB. And this track has it all. And I air is packed with longing regret and desire, and it's the third single she put out in 2020. So I'm watching out for a bigger release from her on the horizon. Next up is local band strange ages. The album cover on this on said piano music is very 2020 and abandoned piano in the Bay. And the band standing around it wearing masks. Is this a quarantine themed album in some ways, very much. It's a four song EAP and was conceived, written and recorded entirely during the pandemic, mostly at home, but they also drew upon everything else going on protests and injustice and how everyone's basically living on social media strain. Gauges is a guitar free indie band really and chanting and lyrically rich music. My favorite tracks, the albums closer your last day. It's a slow burn waltzing its way through the modern day. Speaker 2: 05:40 [inaudible] Speaker 1: 05:41 That was your last day by strange ages. And I should add that new new pianos were harmed by the band, a local piano repairment caught wind. That one was already unfortunately dumped in the base. So word spread and strange ages sees the opportunity as far time capsules go. It's pretty spot on. That's great. And finally, we have a new album from cults called host, but even though this is a New York band, apparently it has some San Diego roots. Yeah. Colts, Madeline fallen. And Brian oblivion were both raised in San Diego, but form the band after they moved to New York. And it's been almost a decade since they skyrocketed to fame with their first album, after an iTunes commercial featured go outside, which is kind of an ear worm and the new full length released a few weeks ago. It's really nice addition to their catalog. Lots of synth tinge, pop seventies aesthetic, and a really good dose of darkness. Let's listen to the opening Chak trials. Speaker 2: 07:06 [inaudible] Speaker 1: 07:09 That's trials by cults. It has this deceivingly cheery and timeless tune, but also feels kind of detached and resigned. A little heartbreaking. I personally really love a good, upbeat, sad song. You can find a playlist of these songs@kpbs.org or follow KPBS on Spotify. And we'd love to hear what you're listening to tell us in the KPBS art Facebook crew. I've been speaking with KPBS arts editor and producer Julia Dixon Evans. Thank you, Julia. Thanks Maureen. Finally, we take just a moment to remember the passing of Eddie van Halen virtuoso guitarist. The band van Halen came out of Pasadena and blasted to superstardom in the 1970s. Eddie van Halen died yesterday at age 60 Speaker 2: 08:20 [inaudible].
