Get your first taste of summer listening to the latest releases from Filipino/African-American artist, Jelani Aryeh. His music channels the sunny pop sensibilities of 2000s indie bands like The Shins or Beach House, even though he was born only one year prior to the release of Oh, Inverted World. Regardless, Aryeh has his own debut […]

Recently, in the middle of Chinatown, a phoenix rose from the ashes at The Grand Star Jazz Club. It had been 40 years since the world heard Chip Kinman play songs from his legendary punk band The Dils. After the loss of his brother, founding member Tony Kinman (Tony 19), earlier this year and at […]

San Diego indie rock staples, Pinback played a solid show at the Echoplex Thursday night. Thursday was night one of two sold-out gigs. Having not toured in five years, these guys knew their presence would cause a 90’s-00’s throwback of sorts. Starting the evening off were Vertical Scratchers. These goofs took the stage with confidence […]

San Diego’s Big Bloom are about to be in full rock n’ roll bloom with the upcoming release of their debut LP Heavy Angel, due out July 7. We here at Grimy Goods are thrilled to premiere the release of their first single off this heavy hitter titled “Punk Song.” According to vocalist Katie Howard, […]

This past Friday, The Smell hosted a sold-out show featuring The Frights (San Diego). The venue is all ages, so walking up to the door there were loads of young folks hanging out in the alley, on the couches inside, and sitting on the floors. As supporting act, Jellyy (Los Angeles), plays their last couple […]

As if there weren’t already enough bitchin’ summer concerts series to overwhelm your musical soul, here comes yet another set of FREE summer concerts that we look forward to every year. The 2014 Del Mar FREE summer concert series has announced its incredible lineup. Kicking off on Friday, July 18 with none other than one […]

Broken Bells have a headlining show date scheduled for Tuesday, April 15th at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood. So if you’re an Angelino and don’t want to venture down South to San Diego for their Humphreys Concerts by the Bay performance on April 16th, you’re in luck! We’re real stoked Broken Bells finally announced an […]

Broken Bells have a headlining show date scheduled for Wednesday, April 16 at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay in sunny San Diego. The band has scheduled this anticipated performance around their Coachella dates, so if you’re not going to Coachella, we highly recommend you attend Broken Bells at Humphreys! For more Broken Bells tour dates, […]

Ah, now this reminds me of my wild college days in San Diego. Rocket from the Crypt are back! The San Diego rockers are headed to Los Angeles with a headlining show date at the Echoplex on Saturday March 29, 2014. If you don’t know about the greatness that is Rocket from the Crypt, you […]

Oh, man — this is going to be awesome! According to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Facebook, they will play a free show at the Del Mar Races on Aug. 23 as part of Del Mar’s 4 O’ Clock Fridays concert series! The Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Del Mar Races is a free show for fans attending […]

Opening day at the Del Mar Races kicks off this Wednesday, July 17 with musical performances by VOKAB KOMPANY and DJ’s G*Roy & DJ Flesch (as part of the Coors Light Opening Day Party). Aside from music and betting on the ponies, more than 45,000+ race fans are expected to attend what’s defined as one […]

The Swingin’ Utters swung their punk rock tunes through the Casbah, San Diego a few weeks ago. Check out our photo gallery from all the action! Photography: Big Swig Click through our photo gallery below for more pics of the Swingin’ Utters!

Vivan Girls came to shred the Casbah in San Diego last week! Check out our photo gallery of these rippin’ babes below! Photography: Sergio Garcia   Click through the gallery for more photos!

Now this is what a Casbah show is all about. OFF!, Spider Fever and Retox played the Casbah in San Diego on May 14. It was a wild way to ring in your average boring Monday! Check out the photo gallery of OFF! below! Photography: Big Swig Click through the photo gallery below for more […]

Deadmau5 just played a string of four sold-out Hollywood Palladium shows and now he’s taking his act to San Diego for his explosive Meowingtons Hax tour with a stop in San Diego’s Petco Park on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 featuring supporting A-list acts: Avicii, Tommy Lee & DJ Aero, Feed Me, and more. This is […]

Photo by Ryan Mulvey We’ve been following the Ocean Side indie rockers, the Drowning Men for quite some time now and I can honestly say, they are one of the best indie acts to come out of San Diego. Not only do these guys boast some powerful tunes that will get your body moving to […]

Pinback is bringing their sun drenched indie rock to the El Rey Theatre this Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Supporting these San Diego rockers will be Kenseth Thibideau. Pinback recently released their new single “Information Retrieved A”as the first installment of their highly anticipated album due in early 2012. So aside from hearing your old Pinback […]

We caught Chuck Berry less than a year ago perform a kick-ass live show about a year ago at the Hootenanny and now the rock and roll legend is back to rip it up some more. And trust me, even at 82, Berry still has it going on! The man can still school a bunch […]

I remember catching the guys back in my San Diego days when they were called The Muslims. Looks like the chaps have done exceedingly well as The Soft Pack, playing shows all across the globe and touring with both the Breeders and Franz Ferdinand. The Soft Pack will release their self-titled, debut album on Kemado […]

Gosh, dammit. Now that I live in LA I miss so many of the skate events I used to go to when I lived in Carlsbad. Here we go again: If you’re in the San Diego area (specifically) North Cunty, the Zero “Strange Word” Premiere is going off tonight at the Paloma Theatre in Encinitas. […]