Author | Dustin Shey
Writer and photographer for The Owl Mag. Feel free to email me if you got something you wanna show me. dustin@theowlmag.com
Posted on 31 January 2012. Tags: Cuckoo Chaos, Nada Surf, Republic of Letters, The Soft Pack
Last Saturday in San Diego, a wonderful thing happened for local music. Three bands who have been around for quite some time got the chance to open up for Nada Surf.
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Posted in Photos
Posted on 31 January 2012. Tags: 4th and B, free tickets, MuteMath, San Diego
We're giving away a pair of tickets to Mutemath in San Diego this Friday. Simply caption this photo for your chance to win!
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Posted in Free Stuff
Posted on 30 January 2012. Tags: Afrojack, Amon Tobin, Arctic Monkeys, Atari Teenage Riot, Breakbot, Cat Power, Coachella 2012, Datsick, Dawes, Death Grips, Explosions in the Sky, Feed Me, Frank Ocean, Girls, givers, James Alesso, Jimmy Cliff and Tim Armstrong, M. Ward, M83, Madeon, Madness, Mazzy Star, Neon Indian, Otherlives, Pulp, Refused, SebastiAn, swedish house mafia, The Black Angels, The Black Keys, The Horrors, The Rapture, Yuck
This April nearly 80,000 people will land near Indio, California once again for a sold out Coachella. To get you prepared and pumped we've made this playlist.
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Posted in Features
Posted on 27 January 2012. Tags: Damien Jurado, David Bazan, Maraqopa, Museum of Flight, Pedro the Lion, Rocky Votalato
Set to release his 12th album Maraqopa on February 12th, Damien Jurado is one of those lasting songwriters that just won't stop making great records.
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Posted in Features
Posted on 08 December 2011. Tags: Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, glee, Greg Laswell
GLEE can't come up with any new ideas, so they start ripping off other artists' covers of songs, namely Greg Laswells cover of Cyndi Laupers "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun."
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Posted on 02 December 2011. Tags: Fitz & The Tantrums, KPRI, Mayer Hawtho, San Diego, The Head and the Heart
A night consisting of Fitz and the Tantrums, Mayer Hawthorne, and The Head and The Heart is enough to raise anyone's owl feathers. But not mine.
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Posted in Live Reviews
Posted on 30 November 2011. Tags: Said The Whale, The Weakerthans
Said the Whale is opening up for fellow Canadian music brethren in arms The Weakerthans and need some gear!
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Posted in News
Posted on 11 November 2011. Tags: Cate Le Bon, Digitalism, Field Music, Holmes, Housse de Racket, Lost Lander, Parenthetical Girls, Rebecca Zapen, Scout, Sea Lions, Silverclub, Thurlow, White Denim
We're only 11 days into November and we can't stand to look at Facebook anymore. We get it, you're thankful. Now thank us for giving you these free tunes.
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Posted in Free MP3
Posted on 09 November 2011. Tags: Little Red, San Diego, Soda Bar
Little Red from Australia isn't the live show you want to see if you like holding your beer and swaying. They're for dancing.
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Posted in Live Reviews
Posted on 28 October 2011. Tags: Alert New London, Austra, Ben Lear, Black Taxi, Chairlift, Eight Bit Tigers, Grimes, Guards, Male Bonding, The Beets, Treefight for Sunlight, With Lions
Just another week sludging through the depths of email hell only to bring you the finest free MP3s that we can find.
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Posted in Free MP3, Free Stuff
Posted on 14 October 2011. Tags: A Band of Bees, Big Deal, Comasoft, Emil and Friends, Local Hero, Low Roar, Pikachune, Princess Chelsea, Priory, The Bees, The Loom, With Lions
Something new, something borrowed, something that's gonna cost you absolutely nothing to consume. Good music lives on.
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Posted in Free MP3
Posted on 07 October 2011. Tags: David Lynch, Gold Leaves, Lord Huron, Mannequin Men, Radical Dads, Tall Tales & the Silver Lining, the strange boys
You've almost made it to happy hour this week and you should congratulate yourself by downloading all these MP3s we thought were awesome.
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Posted in Free MP3
Posted on 30 September 2011. Tags: Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble, Gross Magic, John Steel Singers, san cisco, Vanish Valley, Zoe Boekbinder
You know when we have to change our clocks and the sun goes down at 4pm? Yeah, that time of year sucks. Here's some upbeat and poppy free MP3s so you don't get down in the dumps.
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Posted in Free MP3
Posted on 23 September 2011. Tags: Alligator Indian, AM and Shawn Lee, Coast Jumper, Fionn Regan, Firesuite, Holiday Shores, library voices, Said The Whale, Shimmering Stars, Still Corners, White Denim, Y Luv
Discover some new music today and download hella music. Or "lots" if you're from anywhere but Northern California.
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Posted on 22 September 2011. Tags: Dave Matthews Band, Live, Notorious B.I.G., Pearl Jam, Seven Mary Three, tupac
1994 through 1998 was filled with the most awesome alternative music ever. Throw in a dash of rap via an East coast vs. West coast rap war, and you have yourself a classic playlist from Dustin Shey.
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Posted in Features, Videos