Tag Archives: 1999 in San Diego

The Recording Leaf began because the solo project of Jimmy LaValle, a San Diego-based songwriter who started recording solo materials twelve months after forming the post-rock music group Tristeza. Inspired by way of a number of styles — traditional, jazz, and post-rock included in this — LaValle built his own …

The later Gwendolyn “Gwen” Gordy-Fuqua deserves a huge footnote in Motown’s background. The vivacious, gorgeous, partying female succumbed to cancers November 8, 1999 in her NORTH PARK, CA house, and was laid to rest in a family group story in Detroit, MI, November 15, 1999. She’s survived by way of …

Reeve Oliver is really a three-piece indie rock-band from NORTH PARK, CA, which blends the nervy energy of punk-pop using the lightly mopey affect of emo even though embracing the best guitar strike of rings like Dinosaur Jr. as well as the Pixies. Reeve Oliver premiered in 1999 by guitarist …

Coming from NORTH PARK, CA, and playing tense and silvery designs of inflammable punk-style compositions, Sounds Ratchet claims their particular corner on the choice rock scene. Developing in Apr 1999, Ratchet was made up of a lineup including Joe Hosler (bass, vocals), Roger Molina (electric guitar), and Brandon Youthful (drums). …