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Sounds Like San Diego: May 27

Hit the Lafayette during the day and Soda Bar at night

There are so many things to do this weekend that music might come secondary, but make sure you save some energy for some of the great shows rolling through town. Our friends at ListenSD kick off the summer with a super fun party and concert at the Lafayette featuring Kim & the Created and Schizophonics. By nightfall, if you're not at the sold out Valley View Casino Center, make your way to the Casbah for a nighttime edition of Grampadrew's Flim Flam Revue, see the Adicts and the Sonics at Observatory or catch Down by Law at the Holding Company. If you've been on the web this week, you maybe noticed a lot of talk about the Strokes after the release of a new book about the New York music scene in the early 2000s. The Strokes play center characters, and their career is dissected through intimate stories about the members. Tonight, you can catch Strokes' guitarist Nick Valensi in the flesh, as his latest project CRX rocks out at Soda Bar.

Saturday, May 27:
  • ListenSD Summer Kick-off Party featuring Kim & the Created, the Schizophonics @ Lafayette Hotel, Swim Club & Bungalows (12 p.m.)
  • Grampadrew's Flim Flam Revue with Shawn P. Rohlf, Jeff Berkley, Veronica May @ Casbah 
  • The Adicts, the Sonics @ Observatory North Park
  • CRX, Starcrawler, Pinky Pinky @ Soda Bar
  • Jennifer Knapp @ Space
  • Le Youth @ Port Pavilion, Broadway Pier
  • Down by Law, Skip Jack, DJ Mancat @ The Holding Company 1502
  • LED presents My Life Every Day USA 2017 with Zeds Dead, Louis the Child, Bad Royale, Mightyfools, Saymyname, Wuki, Dvbbs @ Valley View Casino Center
  • Jahja Lings Finale @ Jacobs Music Center at Symphony Hall
  • Brawley @ Bar Pink
  • Mustache Harbor, Graceband @ Belly Up 
  • Joshua White presents MONK @ 100 at Dizzy's
  • Organ for the Senses @ Spreckels Organ Pavilion
  • The Matte Gray Band @ Moonshine Beach
  • Alex Williams @ Moonshine Flats
  • Steve West's Subculture featuring the Cured, Still Ill @ Music Box
  • Lady Dottie & the Diamonds @ Park & Rec 
  • LED presents: Zeds Dead, Saymyname, Mscls, Erick Diaz @ Quartyard
  • DJ Claire's Happy Hour @ Whistle Stop (5 p.m.)
  • Memo Rex & Friends @ Blonde
  • Steph Johnson @ Panama 66
  • The Sleepwalkers, Hipper @ Pour House (Oceanside)
  • Serious Guise @ Navajo Live
  • All Shook Up @ California Center for the Arts, Escondido
  • Carlsbad Dance Centre presents "Believe" @ California Center for the Arts, Escondido
  • The M.E. Tour, Marsha Ambrosius, Eric Benet @ House of Blues
  • Peace in Terror, Colossal, Seconds Ago, Pissed Regardless, Refuse, Plus Guest @ Soma
  • Frankie T. & the Triple B @ De Oro Mining Co
  • Freedom Concert featuring Lifehouse @ USS Midway Museum
  • Groove International @ Voodoo Room, House of Blues
  • Flames of Durga @ Bancroft Bar
  • Block Market @ Quartyard
  • The Jesse Cantlay Band @ Martini's on Fourth
  • Dazed and Confused "A Tribute to Led Zeppelin" @ Winston's
  • Impossible BW (record release), Thieves Like Us, Jon Bender @ Til-Two Club
  • Mad Hat Hucksters @ Black Cat Bar
  • Xandria, Kobra & the Lotus, Once Human, Alchemy @ Brick by Brick
  • SaharaGrimm, Isaac Cheong @ Lestat's
  • Random Article, MRKTS @ 710 Beach Club
  • DJ Junior the DISCOpunk @ U-31
  • Bless Your Heart Burlesque @ Tio Leo's
  • Blue Largo @ Humphreys Backstage Live (5 p.m.)
  • Rising Star @ Humphreys Backstage Live (9 p.m.)
  • Butts Ta Nuts with DJs Waterfalls, Julz, Kev Mighty @ El Dorado
  • Chachi @ Fluxx
  • Breathe Carolina @ Bassmnt
  • Sunburn Memorial Day Weekend featuring Brooke Evers, Sid Vicious @ Float, Hard Rock Hotel
  • Popvinyl @ V Lounge, Viejas Casino 
  • Cassie B Trio @ Lobby Bar, Viejas Casino 
  • DJ Vice @ Omnia
  • Yotto @ Bang Bang
  • Soul Work presents Eden, a Goddess party @ Spin (3 p.m.)
  • Tim Baresko vs. Clyde P @ Spin (9 p.m.)
  • Jessie Morales, El Original De La Sierra, Patrones, Jorge Morales @ Ramona Mainstage
  • Purp n Turqs @ Kava Lounge
  • Rockstar Saturdays @ Henry's

Rosemary Bystrak is the publicist for the Casbah and writes about the San Diego music scene, events and general musings about life in San Diego on San Diego: Dialed In. Follow her updates on Twitter or contact her directly.

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