For most people, when considering the idea of switching places with another person it’s usually someone that is wealthy, famous, or exceptionally talented in some form or another. The last person one considers is his or her own parents. I recently had the pleasure of viewing Freaky Friday the musical in Downtown San Diego at the San Diego Musical Theatre where I got to see the exact aforementioned situation. Except in song. And the...
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FALLUJAH UNDYING LIGHT Album Review By Corey “Craw Daddy” Crawford Coming in with their 4th album, is California’s own progressive death metal Fallujah. Their album “Undying Light” comes out via Nuclear Blast Records on March 15. Not only is it their 4th album, but it is also their first with new singer Antonio Palermo. As soon as the opening track, “Glass House” started it reeled me in. And that is probably my...
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BERGRAVEN DET FRAMLIDNA MINNET Album Review By Corey “Craw Daddy” Crawford Sweden’s Bergraven are releasing their first album in about ten years, Det Framlidna Minnet. I’ve never heard of them prior to this, but listening to them you definitely get that jazz-inspired progressive black metal feel right away. And I got to say I love it. I’m not 100% sure what he is saying, but the music if amazing. It reminds me a bit of Shining....
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Captain Marvel Non-Spoiler Review Jake Hardison If you’re like me, the release of Captain Marvel in theaters was the first thing you marked on your calendar after getting home from watching Avengers: Infinity War last spring. Even the biggest fans of Marvel Comics have had a list of questions circling their head ever since they saw that red and blue logo light up on Nick Fury’s pager as it hit the ground. But the question that I’ve...
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MARTY FRIEDMAN AND IMMORTAL GUARDIAN AT BRICK BY BRICK Concert Review By Corey “Craw Daddy” Crawford On Wednesday, January 23rd, legendary guitarist Marty Friedman kicked off his tour, One Bad M.F., right here in San Diego at Brick By Brick. It was a night of complete shred with Texas metal band Immortal Guardian joining Friedman on the tour, and local San Diegans Night Shadow hopping on the bill here at Brick By Brick. ...
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It’s our Countdown to Christmas where some of your favorite KKSM personalities pick their favorite Christmas tunes, here are some selections from Serena Reid, host of Wind Down Wednesdays. This Christmas-Donny Hathaway THE definitive song at Christmas for me and every black family I know is the unforgettable “This Christmas” by Donny Hathaway. His was a life that left us much too soon; I’m sure...
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It’s our Countdown to Christmas! This entry is brought to you by our station manager Zeb Navarro: This is hands down one of my favorite Christmas songs because nothing goes together like Charles Manson and Christmas. I often kick off the holiday season by playing this real loud!
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It’s our Countdown to Christmas! This selection was brought to you by our very own Dan Sweeney of Dan Sweeney’s One Hit Wonders who has picked three Christmas one hit wonders. Do they Know it’s Christmas – Band Aid A song written in 1984 in reaction to television reports of the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia. It was first recorded in a single day on November 25th, 1984 by Band Aid, a supergroup consisting mainly of...
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It’s time for another addition to our Countdown to Christmas. Today our very own Sean Burdeaux of It’s Okay, I’m Crying writes: “I Won’t Be Home For Christmas” by blink-182 (featuring not only former guitarist Tom Delonge but ALSO former drummer Scott Raynor, holy shit, how old is this song? TWENTY ONE YEARS OLD, THIS SONG CAN LEGALLY DRINK). It is a touching, up-lifting little ditty...
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It’s our Countdown to Christmas where some of your favorite KKSM personalities share with us their favorite holiday tunes. Rich Appel, host of that thing, writes: Clearly influenced by one of the best holiday collections ever – Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift to You – Elton and producer Gus Dudgeon may have outdone Phil and company during one wall-of-sound-channeling session, producing this now-Christmas classic....
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