Sat June 9th @ SOMA Full Band show, Parker Theory CD Release Show, also playing White Apple Tree, This Holiday Life & Future of Forestry, $10 & ALL-AGES 7:00PM, Get there early I play first!
3350 Sports Arena Blvd
San Diego, CA 92110

Wed Feb 7th, 2007@ The Whistle Stop FREE Twilight Show @ 7:30PM
2236 Fern Street (30th & Juniper)
San Diego, CA 92104

Wed Jan 31st, 2007@ The Whistle Stop FREE Twilight Show @ 7:30PM
2236 Fern Street (30th & Juniper)
San Diego, CA 92104

Wed Jan 24th, 2007 @ The Whistle Stop FREE Twilight Show @ 7:30PM
2236 Fern Street (30th & Juniper)
San Diego, CA 92104

Wed Jan 17th, 2007 @ Rebecca's Coffeehouse all acoustic show, FREE & All Ages 7:30PM,
3015 Juniper St
San Diego, CA 92104

Sat Jan 13th, 2007 @ Panama Bay Coffee Company, This show is FREE & All-Ages 7:30PM, 2115 1st St
Livermore, CA 94550

Wed Jan 10th, 2007 @ Rebecca's Coffeehouse all acoustic show, FREE & All Ages 7:30PM,
3015 Juniper St
San Diego, CA 92104

Sun Jan 7th, 2007 @ Les Voyous French Restaurant
Songwriter's Showcase with Norman Kim, FREE @ 7:30PM,
6541 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028

Wed Jan 3rd, 2007 @ Rebecca's Coffeehouse all acoustic show, FREE & All Ages 7:30PM,
3015 Juniper St
San Diego, CA 92104

Sat Dec 23rd, 2006 @ Private House Party
San Francisco, CA

Thurs Dec 21st, 2006 @ Panama Bay Coffee Company, This show is FREE & All-Ages 7:00PM, 2115 1st St
Livermore, CA 94550

Wed Dec 13th, 2006 @ Rebecca's Coffeehouse all acoustic show,FREE & ALL-AGES 7:30PM,
3015 Juniper St
San Diego, CA 92104

Wed Dec 6th 2006 @ Rebecca's Coffeehouse all acoustic show,FREE & ALL-AGES 7:30PM,
3015 Juniper St
San Diego, CA 92104

Wed Nov 29th, 2006 @ Rebecca's Coffeehouse all acoustic show, FREE & ALL-AGES 7:30PM,
3015 Juniper St
San Diego, CA 92104

Wed Nov 22nd, 2006 @ Rebecca's Coffeehouse all acoustic show,FREE & ALL-AGES 7:30PM,
3015 Juniper St
San Diego, CA 92104

Sunday Nov 12th, 2006 @ San Diego Sports Club Dennis Borlek's Birthday Bash!! Also playing: Transfer, Dennis Borlek, Mario Escavado (from The Dragons) This show is 21+ 9:00PM, 1271 University Avenue
San Diego, CA 92103

Wed Nov 8th, 2006 @ Rebecca's Coffeehouse all acoustic show, This show is FREE & ALL-AGES 7:30PM,
3015 Juniper St
San Diego, CA 92104

Wed Nov 1st, 2006 @ Rebecca's Coffeehouse all acoustic show, This show is FREE & ALL-AGES 7:30PM : )
3015 Juniper St
San Diego, CA 92104

Sat Oct 28th, 2006 @ Karma Coffeehouse all acoustic show, also playing Melissa Chester, Jaime Wyatt, Katrina Parker (all on myspace, so be sure to check them out!) This show is FREE & ALL-AGES 8PM : ) 1544 N.Cahuenga Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90028

Oct 5th, 2006 @ Brick by Brick All Acoustic Show, Opening for Mark Mallman@ 8:30PM 21+
San Diego, California

Sept 1st @ The Whistle Stop Stripped Acoustic Fest, Also playing Dennis Borlek, and Wire Pony @ 9PM 21+
San Diego, CA

July 19th, 2006 @ The The Casbah All Acoustic Show, 91X Concert, Also playing Sean O'Donnell from Reeve Oliver,Arabella Harrison, and Ryan Ferguson@ 8:30PM 21+
San Diego, California

June 2nd, 2006 @ The Whistle Stop Stripped Acoustic Fest, Also playing Dennis Borlek,Switchyard, and Derek Papa @ 9PM 21+
San Diego, California

November 17th, 2005 @ The Casbah , Stripped acoustic show with Jesse from Parker Theory on guitar and singing backups. We will be trying out a couple of new songs. Also playing Ben Lee & New Buffalo both amazing acts. Show up early, Jesse and I play first! 8PM, 21+

October 29th, 2005 @ Qualcomm Stadium's Fox Rox Stage with Parker Theory 4PM
San Diego, California

October 23rd, 2005 @ Lestat's Stripped Acoustic with Jesse from Parker Theory on Guitar. Also playing Annie Bethancourt and Audrey Surface @ 8:30PM - ALL AGES - $5
San Diego, CA

October 7th, 2005 @ The Whistle Stop 91X's Stripped Acoustic Fest, Also playing Dennis Borlek, Shea Stratton, Holiday and the Adventure Pop Collective and Sus Hijos @ 9PM
San Diego, California

August 28th, 2005 @ The Casbah Tracy Johnson's CD
Release for "Oceans Under Jupiter EP" @ 9PM
San Diego, California

June 17th, 2005 @ Martini Blues with Brandon Cross Huntington Beach, California

We opened our doors, and local music flooded in as if we were SriLankaBeat. Two weeks ago, I sat with 10 writers and a few boxes of CDs – some wrapped in college ruled-paper, some in thin CDR plastic cases, some full-artwork CDs, vinyl, even a tape (remember those?). CityBeat’s writers, all music scene junkies who’ve chosen computer keyboards over Stratocasters, dug in. Aside from a handful of submissions we’d heard or seen over the years, most of the names were foreign. Writers chose their albums like your girlfriend chooses ponies at the track. “Oooh, kitty cat lollipop!” on writer proclaimed. “I have to review that one on name alone.”

Associate editor Kelly Davis would later regret that decision, admitting the music frightened her … like we said in our ad for GDR, we don’t promise to be nice. There are perfectly good publicity firms around town who will speak nicely of you. We promise real opinions from people who listen to a shitload of music and like to think they know a good or bad thing when they hear it. Maybe they do. Maybe they don’t. But my experience is that CityBeat’s writers have pretty well tuned ears. They’re like the friend you have who turned you on to Modest Mouse when Isaac Brock was just a mild psychotic with a funny voice and a new band.

Admittedly, the GDR is not a perfect process- when the mailman assaults you with a hailstorm of manila envelopes, you get woozy. Some get buried beneath a copy of SD Music Matters. Some got lost in the seat crack of my truck, I’m sure… The positive result is that we’ve uncovered 14 new, or relatively new, artists that knocked our socks off. We have identified them throughout this issue as EXTRASPECIALGOOD. We encourage you to at least Google them and take a listen.

Of the 14 EXTRASPECIALGOODERS, I had personally heard the music of three before this issue. As for another four of them, I had heard the names, not the music. Seven others, however- I had no clue they existed. And that’s the beauty of the GDR….
Troy – Editor SD CityBeat

EXTRASPECIALGOOD – Tracy Johnson

She just flew in from the land of Big American Pop Music, and hot damn if Tracy Johnson doesn’t sound all purdy and hopped up on pop-punk orchestration and tweener/20-something angst. With Parker Theory’s Jesse Pruett and Jeff Forrest helping with production, instrumentation and harmonies, this threesome sounds like a company of dozens when put to tape. Johnson’s vocal sound is thick, polished and girly without being overbearingly cute, forsaking surface pop for melancholy catchiness. She’s a songbird with the power to project, a rocker who took the leather off. She postures, she struts – as when she blasts “You don’t really know me at all” on “Does it Really Matter.” It’s all done with a careful tiptoe on the line between pop and pap, a batch of potential Dawson’s Creek soundtrack material that has just enough emotional depth to avoid being written off. It’s AAA material, so alternative-only types beware. But it’s an arresting comment on pop and well worth an iPod upload or a soundtrack for summer cruising with the top down. -Caley Cook