Chad Deal
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Chad Deal has been a regular Reader contributor since early 2010. He authors Crasher and Here's the Deal, in addition to contributing to Cover Stories, Blurt installments, and the Reader's Jam Session blog.
Latest Blog Entries
Chairs Missing - "Them" Video
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012
Four days ago, psych-folk quartet Chairs Missing posted ...
Squidling Brothers Bring Freakshow to Shakedown
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012
Traveling dare-devils The Squidling Brothers are currently touring ...
San Francisco Dirty Storytellers Debut at Space 4 Art
Monday, Feb. 6, 2012
“I want to hear San Diego’s stories,” says ...
Circle Circle dot dot Plays Love Roulette to Deconstruct a Drag Queen
Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012
On Saturday, February 11, local community-based theatre group ...
The Unch Side of Snooze
Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012
A couple weeks ago, Mary Beth Abate filled ...
Food Truck Fundraiser for Alice Birney Elementary School
Friday, Feb. 3, 2012
The New Vision Christian Church in University Heights ...
Third Monthly Liquid Blue Occu-party at Soda Bar
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012
“We believe in the Occupy movement and others ...
Kill Quanti's DJ Pound / eLan 10" Split Vinyl Release
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012
Local instrumental hip hop and experimental beat label ...
City Council Unanimously in Favor of Urban Agriculture Amendments
Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012
Today was a landmark for urban agriculturalists as ...
Stage Kids Hit The Stage
Monday, Jan. 30, 2012
Stage Kids are six dudes from Mira Mesa ...
Sam Lopez Keeps San Diego Strange
Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012
Having just curated the third annual San Diego ...
Dinner at the Range
Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012
A few months ago, Barbarella gave the lowdown ...
Get Faded, Go Shopping — Village Hat Shop Warehouse Clearance
Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
Pretty much anybody who’s had more than two ...
Liquid Geometry's Save the State Parks Benefit
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012
“We grew up in East County, so we ...
Taco Tuesdays at Bravo's in Ocean Beach
Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012
In a city where burritos and Tecate are ...
Occupy San Diego Voices Complaints Against SDPD
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012
Members of Occupy San Diego will be attending ...
Groovetube - 3rd Annual San Diego Experimental Guitar Show
Monday, Jan. 23, 2012
Sonny Romeri of local beat soundscape outfit Illuminauts ...
Glitch Slap Lays Smack Down with Sugarpill and jOBOT
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012
Saying that Burning Man will change your life ...
Gonjasufi Extended Interview
Friday, Jan. 20, 2012
I know many of you are interested in ...
Things for Doing: Kaminanda, gEars, Lucent Dossier
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012
It’s the third Thursday and you know what ...
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Now You Know: Room E
Blurt
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012
Dan Harumi (aka Room E), a 26-year-old Bay Area native, recently released his debut full-length, Penguin Child, which makes use of live and electronic sounds in what he calls a ...
Basshenge
Blurt
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012
Burning Man is all about building rad things in the middle of nowhere, Nevada, partying in them for a week, and then dismantling or incinerating them at the end of ...
Rose Wine Pub
Here's the Deal | South Park
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012
Rose Wine Pub in South Park caught my attention when it opened about 16 months ago. It was a holiday walkabout night and the cozy bar, which seats about 30, ...
Certain Girl Situations
Blurt
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012
“I think Hemingway and maybe Bukowski are the only writers who I’ve read all of their books,” says keyboard crooner Sean Davenport, whose new Hills Like Elephants (the name is ...
I Had to Leave Daygo to Get Respect from Daygo
Cover Stories | Musician Interviews
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
Sumach Ecks, aka Gonjasufi, went from under-the-radar beat producer and rapper to a dreadlock-shrouded icon with the 2010 Warp Records A Sufi and a Killer, a collection of psychedelic hip-hop ...
Major Label Machine
Blurt
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
Kansas City native Jason “Captain Blackie” Blackmore has been playing guitar and singing in San Diego for over 11 years now, but before the Turf Club doorman began blowing the ...
Inner Vibration
Crasher
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
in November, musicians/promoters Michael Mannino and Arian Banki threw a party called Inner Vibration at a private residence near Vista in celebration of a close friend who passed away in ...
Sonic Extravaganza at the San Diego Experimental Guitar Show
Blurt | City Heights
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
“A few years ago, there was talk in certain music publications about the death of the guitar,” says Sam Lopez, curator of the San Diego Experimental Guitar Show. “Notions were ...