YOU can see the Simpkin Project for free this Thursday at Gallagher’s Irish Pub in O.B., this Thursday night … all for the cost of FREE.
If you happened to miss these guys last weekend, here’s your chance to catch one of Socal’s finest Reggae Band’s – Direct from Huntington Beach!
If you don’t get the title of this article you’ll get it on Thursday, when you’re at the show grooving and singing along with their catchy lyrics, soulful harmonies and positive message that is a trademark of the Simpkin Project.
See you at Gallagher’s this Thursday, August 2nd. Don’t miss your chance to bring the weekend in with one of the best free shows in town! Music starts at 9! Don’t be late … Gallaghers fills up quick!
If you were taking the 101 home from work this evening in North County San Diego, you could have stopped off at the Chart House in Cardiff to see a special acoustic set with Mike Pinto (The Mike Pinto Band) and Scott Clayton (Shoreline Rootz). They were playing to support the Community Hope Project (https://www.facebook.com/CommunityHopeProject).
Mike Pinto and Scott Clayton
The Community Hope Project is a non-profit organization that partners with communities to foster justice, equality, opportunity, and well being through human connections, creativity and empowerment.
*The Mike Pinto Band will be playing at the Belly Up this Saturday Night with Cisco Adler and Tribal Theory – Doors open at 8PM – brought to you by the Belly Up and On Point Promotions
Left to Right: Rex Costales, Chase Cavitt, Steven Barger, Will Boyce, Jeff Hodson, Wiley Miranda
While Products’ roots are in Hawaii, they are making a name for themselves right here in Southern California. The foundation of the band was laid down back in 2005 by singer/songwriter Chase Cavitt, who wrote many of the songs that the band still plays today. Later on in college he met drummer Steve Barger and original bassist Kiki Dread. When Chase and Steve moved to the mainland they hooked up with bassist Rex Costales.
2010 was a good year for the guys. They played a sold out show with Groundation at the Pipeline Cafe. In 2011, Product played the Seattle Hemp Fest, with over 100,000 people in attendance, playing on the same ticket as Kotton Mouth Kings.
While Product has remained true to their Hawaiian roots musically, they have added some members. Will Boyce fills a supporting lead/rythm guitar role, and occasionally they will play with a horn section, that includes Jeff Hodson on trombone, and either Carlos Liera or Wiley Miranda on the trumpet. Regardless of who’s on stage you’re guaranteed a good time.
This summer has brought Product many new opportunities, including their debut performance at The Belly Up Tavern, in Solana Beach, where they shared the stage with DnT and Reason to Rebel. Riding the ever present wave, Product is set to hit the recoding studio with Lewis Richards, of 17th Street Records. Richards is well known in the music scene, having worked with bands like The Dirty Heads, Sublime with Rome and locals like Seedless. Products’ Ep will have 3 original songs, and should be completed by summer’s end.
These guys are all about a positive message and positive vibes! Be ready to dance the night away at any of their upcoming shows. One of my favorite songs, “Good feeling” says it all. Product will be playing this Saturday, September 29th with another amazing Hawaiian band HI Roots, at the Boar’s Crossing in Carlsbad!
For more information check them out at www.producttheband.com or on Facebook! Make sure to say what’s up if you see them out and a show!
Unreleased New Music from P.O.B. filmed at Fratelli’s Italian Kitchen in Oceanside, CA.
This is not another song about how happy you will be drinking a cocktail on the beach or how you can’t get that girl you want, this song inspires more through provoking and critical ideas as it has similar undertones and themes as did “The Robot”.
We used to live off the land and survived day to day. Has technology made our lives better or numbed our brains and made our bodies soft? We have gone from foraging and hunting organic foods to mass producing genetically modified plants injected with preservatives and sprayed with pesticides. It appears technology is advancing faster than our bodies can evolve. It has become more and more that what defines you is your smartphone and your latest facebook status or your most followed tweet. Is this what it means to be human nowadays? With more and more technology, we can share more and more ideas, just as I share my ideas with you right now… but have we become “slaves to our own creation?”. Comfortable lives help us forget where we come from and all the trials and hardships it took us to go from primitive beings, living off the land into these drones that turn off our brains for 8 hours a day 5 days a weeks and endure the pain just so we have more virtual credits we call money. These are the questions that ‘Primitive’ brings to my mind, what questions does it bring to yours?
Erik Wainwright will be joining Socal Reggae as an interviewer and a writer. Erik was born in New York City and raised on the south shore of Long Island. When he was 12, he moved to Denver, and later to California, where he currently resides in Carlsbad. Erik plays percussion for Encinitas Reggae Band “Shoreline Rootz”.
He has been playing drums on and off since he was 5 years old. In 1985 he played in his first reggae band “Sure Thing”. “I guess it was the bass line that caught my attention and the unique rhythms”, he says. “It was like no other music I had heard before. I guess the first band I heard do reggae was The Police then I saw Musical youth on Saturday Night Live as kids and they blew me away. Then I got a hold of a Bob Marley tape called Babylon by Bus and wore that out. Then on to Steel Pulse. I realized it was the message that was really calling me. Positive Vibrations and a solution for oppression interested me so I began my lifelong pursuit of studying the bible and utilizing it’s truths for answers in my life.”
Eventually he started a Ska band called “Perfect Wonder” in 2004 then joined “Tribal Theory” where he was exposed to Island and Hawaiian style reggae. Later, he put together a DVD documentary of local reggae bands called “Reggae San Diego Style” which features many local reggae bands like Big Mountain, Devastators, Stranger, Skanic and others. It has interviews and recordings of live shows and some studio recordings as well. This inspired him to create a radio show called “The Sweet Reggae Music Show”.
“My goals are to open up a studio to help local bands record and produce their music, videos and documentaries. I would also love to have a TV show where I could travel around the world interviewing reggae musicians, exposing and enlightening people to and with this positive musical force which has been a major part of my life for over 30 years. End Goal:open up a Sushi-Reggae joint with live music somewhere like Hawaii.”
Please join Socal Reggae in welcoming Gina Tang, as our newest team member. She will be writing for special assignments and producing interviews as we continue to expand the awareness of the reggae scene here in southern California.
Gina is a free-lance writer, editor, and lifestyle consultant with a passion for music, art, and community. Her project, The Soular Power System, is gaining local notoriety as an actively expanding language, or “brand,” that facilitates the conversations and experiences in greatest demand: engaging, empowering, and enrolling the creative human spirit–our vital core–in joyful self-expression and fulfillment. She is dedicated to building a collaborative platform for the promotion of socially sustainable organizations, and the amplification of good vibes. Currently touring San Diego by RV (The Soular Power Mobile Station), Gina publishes blog posts, videos, and various other propaganda. She also performs regularly with reggae-fusion band Soul Ablaze and afro-jazz band Bateke Beat.
“I believe in the power of language to renew frameworks of thought and behavior, and to inspire evolution. My mission is to translate this activating impulse into as many ‘dialects’ as possible: words (written and spoken), events, recipes, videos, codes, applications, visual & performing arts, movements, etc. As a language artist, Soular Power is a metaphor of choice. I take my work very seriously…. which is to say, I keep it as light as possible.”
Gina offers custom sessions to help individuals, households, and businesses optimize productivity for sustainable prosperity in any dimension! Contact soularpowersystem@gmail.com for a free consultation.
Roy Pinedo Jimenez has been on the scene for awhile now. At some point this year, we found ourselves working side by side with him at several shows. He always has a camera and he works tirelessly. Roy is dedicated to the reggae scene like no other. He started out shooting with some cheap pink camera that belonged to his daughter, and when that wouldn’t cut it, he decided to go pro.
Not only does he take pictures, but he also does a bit of video. Just recently, Roy was at the Belly Up in San Diego, and Pato Banton called him up on stage and got him to film an epic shout out to the people. It was amazing.
We welcome Roy as an official photographer and look forward to displaying his work in conjunction with the many stories that are soon to come.
Project Out of Bounds is a progressive reggae-fusion band that has been taking California venues by surprise for the last five years. In a musical age where success is manifested through kissing ass and blasting social media sites, P.O.B. is the band that lets their art speak for itself. Their music is creative, edgy, and hip. They usually sneak under the radar right before sucker punching the crowd with an explosion of energy. They have accumulated a fan-base of true music aficionados that don’t buy into hype. Yes, this is a band for the true music fan, not just the reggae fan.
Hailing from San Diego, they have made their presence felt throughout California. This band can ace the art of roots, dancehall, and dub, while continuing their focus on versatility and progressing the genre.
Their style can be compared with the likes of other California reggae groups such as Tribal Seeds, Rebelution, or Seedless. In between the reggae structure, listeners may find anything from metal to dubstep or hip-hop to progressive rock. Pretty much any genre that can keep the dance floor hot while maintaining the desire to inspire.
New music with inspirations of classic reggae in the cracks, and a dash of thrash in your face is what makes up Project: Out of Bounds. This band strives to progress the genre while many are content with imitation.
Their first video, The Robot Song was produced by POB and Thomas Persichilli, with special effects help from Seth Minnich. It’s all about becoming a machine and working for the man, which is something that nobody wants to identify with, as much as we actually do. The Robot Song inspired an entire cult following. He actually has gone on tour with the band and will jump up on stage during the song.
Currently, a new video is in the works and is nearing completion. In the meantime, POB is working in the studio with Sound Engineer Wiley Miranda. Wiley just finished a tour with Tribal Seeds, and is very enthusiastic about this album. The Primitive Ones is a new track that has already been played live. Catch a sample of it in this clip from Winston’s in Ocean Beach about a month ago:
POB will be playing a free show this Friday, July 13th at Fratelli’s Italian Kitchen in Oceanside, which is coincidentally owned and managed by Austin Lorber(POB’s guitar player) and his brother Brandon.
Project: out of bounds (members):
Kris Asgharzadeh (vocals/rythm guitar)
Austin Lorber (lead guitar/synth)
Ryan Rutherford (drums/backing vocals)
Nate Jones (bass)
Jeff Hodson (trombone/backing vocals)
Evan Jones (keyboards)
Kris
Austin
Ryan
Nate
Jeff
Evan
For more information on the band go to the POB WEBSITE
Soul Opus hails from the Coachella Area. Their sound is a bit melodic in a Sublime kind of way, and the saxaphone gives it a classic feel. Big ups to Michael Reyes and Company, and Austin Lorber (of Project:out of Bounds) for hosting them at his restaurant “Fratelli’s” in Oceanside. Checkout Fratelli’s website (www.fratellisoceanside.com) as they may be announcing more shows in the future.
YOU can see the Simpkin Project for free this Thursday at Gallagher’s Irish Pub in O.B., this Thursday night … all for the cost of FREE.
