TONIGHT IN SAN DIEGO: JOEL P WEST & THE TREE RING

Tonight, one of our brothers in arms from San Diego - Zack Nielsen of SEZIO.ORG, and his buddy Dave Brown from HOLIDAY MATINEE are supporting a SD act that needs proper national recognition - JOEL P WEST & THE TREE RING as they will perform at the Museum of Contemporary Art/San Diego.

Part of the Ford Fiesta movement, Brown and Nielson were asked to pick a San Diego artist deserving of national recognition. Nielsen said, "Joel has been a hidden gem amongst San Diego's recently buzzing music scene for the past several years. We've had the pleasure of watching Joel's music evolve from an acoustic project to a fleshed-out, string-based quartet, a.k.a. the Tree Ring." Thanks to this connection that Ford has created, West & the Tree Ring have a chance to perform at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in June.

Also performing on the bill is another band that is a FS favorite of late - BLACK MAMBA. Here's the brand new video from the band that graced our Rumble: San Diego party this month at Bar Pink.

Black Mamba - White Woods from Josh Hassin on Vimeo.

Joel P West and The Tree Ring @ MCASD, La Jolla
w/ Black Mamba
Friday, April 30th @ 8pm

TAPE DECK MOUNTAIN TO PLAY DECEMBER RUMBLES - LIVE SEZIO VIDEOS

One of our favorite new bands from San Diego these days that aren't named Apes Of Wrath, are TAPE DECK MOUNTAIN, three guys that are on sOOper cool Lefse Records that are locked to play our RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES and RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO parties in December. If you aren't aware of this band, get on it now, start with "A Cool Thing" and go from there. Our buddies at SEZIO just did their live music video, check it out HERE.

TONIGHT IN SAN DIEGO - THE RUMBLE: SD @ THE CASBAH - FREE BBQ

TONIGHT in San Diego at The Casbah it's a matinee version of THE RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO starting with doors at 6pm and FREE BBQ + Trumer Pilsner beer specials all afternoon/evening.

The line-up is incredible, with local badasses RAFTER headlining and showing off the SD power that's happening on that local music scene these days. Sadly, it's the last night of The Rumble Tour with UNITED STATE OF ELECTRONICA who started with us in Seattle and now part ways this evening with a final performance in SD. I heard rumor that they played on the top of some double-decker bus last night in Las Vegas and floored everyone at Bardot on Friday night in Hollywood.

U.S.E in Vegas last night

Opening up are the mighty Hermosa Beach band, THE JAKES, fresh off their recent Roadrunner Records signing and with a frontman that has a voice big enough for two bands.

Tonight is FREE and the free ribs and chicken plus beer specials give you no excuse for soaking up some great acts to close out your weekend.

THIS WEEKEND - THE RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO LAUNCHES

If you are going to be in San Diego this weekend for THE NORTH PARK MUSIC THING, then you'll end up at the launch of our RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO party that will be the closing night finale show at The Casbah on Sunday. The 2nd year music festival has a lot of panels and activities and showcases happening around North Park, check out more info HERE.

Future Sounds is teaming with the local SD mafia, SEZIO, M-THEORY RECORDS, INDIGENOUS, THE CASBAH and our buddies at WOXY.COM to produce an evening full of art installations by the Sezio art collective, and live music performances by THE GROWLERS (Long Beach), APES OF WRATH (SD) and LIGHTS ON (SD). The guest DJ for the night is GABE VEGA, so you know he'll keep you moving.

It's 21+ and it's FREE - Doors are at 8PM

JUST ANNOUNCED - THE RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO LAUNCHES AUGUST 9TH

Now we've done it, we've slipped down to San Diego and will be opening up THE RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO on August 9th at THE CASBAH, and it's going to be the grand finale of the NORTH PARK MUSIC THING conference. Our first one is going to be FREE and the entertainment features some of the hottest bands in Southern California.

Coming down from Long Beach, it's THE GROWLERS. They launch their monthly residency in August at The Echo in LA, but are jumping down to help us kick off the new monthly the right way, with a band we've been obsessed with for ages. This band has a touch of magic to them, and getting them this close to the border of Mexico should bring out the best/worst in them.

Representing San Diego are two of their finest up and coming bands - APES OF WRATH and LIGHTS ON. If you have listened to our FS radio show in the last few months, you've heard us spin both of these quite a bit, so when we got our pick of the litter for SD, we knew immediately who we wanted to hit up.

The guest DJ for the night is a guy that needs to introduction in SD, GABE VEGA.

THE RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO will start running every month and fall on the first Saturday normally as a matinee show at The Casbah. We've teamed up with some amazing partners from San Diego like SEZIO, M-THEORY RECORDS and INDIGENOUS to bring you the best of not only San Diego, but adding another stop on the soon to be monthly Rumble tours that start in Seattle.

THE RUMBLE: SAN DIEGO @ THE CASBAH
AUGUST 9th
8:30 PM
FREE