August 25, 2010 – 3:19 pm
During last year’s North Park Music Thing conference in San Diego we had the pleasure of discovering now INDIGENOUS artist, Tape Deck Mountain. Fresh off the 2010 event, Cuckoo Chaos are this year’s take away. Led by front man Scott Wheeler, this five piece is what some might call a San Diego “Super Group” – [...]
August 10, 2010 – 3:07 pm
We’ve teamed up with our friends at PBR to throw a little get together in honor of San Diego’s music scene during North Park Music Thing… featuring a few of our favorite new bands, LESANDS and KISSES (DJ set), and plenty of free PBR to go around. If you missed LESANDS at last weekend’s Rumble, catch [...]
Formed by real-life couple, Jesse Kivel and Zinzi Edmundson, LA’s KISSES’ disco meets 80’s synth sound is quickly making waves. The inspiration for KISSES comes from a friendship between Kivel and cult disco producer Alec R. Costandinos, who is known for his club singles in the late 1970’s. You may recognize Kivel as the front-man [...]
A music conference in San Diego? Yes, indeed. North Park Music Thing emerged a few years ago to not only showcase the abundance of talent emerging from the San Diego region, but to also educate the local community about the idiosyncrasies of the music business. Interestingly enough, it was at last year’s North Park Music [...]
September 9, 2009 – 3:11 pm
One of our favorite up and coming bands, San Diego’s Tape Deck Mountain, is making headlines, impressing the, otherwise unimpressionable, music cynics at Pitchfork. WRITE UP HERE. We were properly introduced to Tape Deck Mountain during a showcase at San Diego’s North Park Music Thing conference back in August. Lo-fi or “mid-fi” (as the band describes [...]
