{"id":245287,"date":"2012-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/man-overboard\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T07:00:00","slug":"man-overboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/man-overboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Man overboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Drowning Men wash through Bar Pink with a new album<\/strong><\/p>\n

Por Logan Broyles | Reportero SDUN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oceanside, Calif.-based Drowning Men come to Bar Pink. (Courtesy Reybee Public Relations)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hailing from Oceanside, Calif., indie-rock quintet The Drowning Men have always enjoyed defying genres and creating the music they want to hear.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been playing music for a long time, so we\u2019re influenced by everything that we\u2019ve ever done in the past,\u201d guitarist and vocalist James Smith said. \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t really know who to compare us to because we don\u2019t really fall into any type of music in particular. It\u2019s just what we happen to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joining Smith are Nato Bardeen on lead vocals and guitar, Todd Eisenkerch on bass, Rory Dolan as percussionist and Gabe Messer on the keyboard. They describe their music as \u201ca glorious melting pot for our uncertain times,\u201d and promise to play each show as if their lives \u2013 and yours \u2013 depended on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe only started touring seriously a couple years ago. We were kind of a local band for the first few years,\u201d Smith said. \u201cRory, Todd and Nato have been playing together in various music circles since they were about 16 or 17 years old, growing up in Oceanside, and we\u2019ve all been playing together in some form or another since 2005.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band released their first EP, \u201cKill the Matador,\u201d in 2007, followed by their debut album, \u201cThe Beheading of the Songbird,\u201d in 2009. Both were self-released, but this year\u2019s July album, \u201cAll of the Unknown,\u201d was their first since they signed on with Borstal Beat Records.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have more resources now,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI think our last record sounded a lot more like what we sound like live. The newer record is definitely a lot more polished and mature.\u201d<\/p>\n

They will be hosting an album release party for \u201cAll of the Unknown\u201d on Aug. 25 at Bar Pink, a stage they know well from years past.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a couple years since we\u2019ve played Bar Pink, but every time we play there, it\u2019s been great,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIt\u2019s a fun place to play. You can always expect a built-in crowd there and the stage is really low, so you\u2019re face-to-face with the crowd. It\u2019s really intimate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of the Unknown\u201d was a long time in the making, considering the group recorded the initial five songs with producer Billy Mohler of Hurley Studios in early 2011 but did not finish the album until nearly a year later. In between, they were flooded with opportunities to tour with acts like Alkaline Trio, Airborne Toxic Event and the Irish punk-rock legends, Flogging Molly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were on the road pretty much all of last year and got signed while on tour. By the time we finished the record, we had a label backing us, [we] had more resources and we had developed more of a relationship with our producer,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWe got to really focus on that second half of the record and really think about every sound that we laid down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band has stayed true to their North County, beach-town roots, and said they continue to approach their music with art in mind, not money or popularity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re blessed to be able to travel and play our music for people. Not everybody gets the chance to do that,\u201d Smith said. \u201cAny day that you get to do what you love to do is a great day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bar Pink is located at 3829 30th St. in North Park. The Dirty Ghosts and Bella Novela will join The Drowning Men for the album release party, which kicks off at 9 p.m. For more information visit barpink.com or call 619-564-7194.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Drowning Men wash through Bar Pink with a new album By Logan Broyles | SDUN Reporter Hailing from Oceanside, Calif., indie-rock quintet The Drowning Men have always enjoyed defying genres and creating the music they want to hear. \u201cWe\u2019ve been playing music for a long time, so we\u2019re influenced by everything that we\u2019ve ever […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":245288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Man overboard","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11547,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-features","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}