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KSDS, founded in 1951, began programming jazz in 1973 and in 1985 became San Diego's only full-time jazz and blues station. KSDS is licensed by the FCC as a non-commercial, non-profit educational radio station and, for many years, operated with 3,000 watts at 88.3 MHz FM.
This movement would eventually become known as the "San Diego sound". [12] Gravity was founded in 1991 by Matt Anderson, member of the band Heroin, as a means to release the music of his band and of other related San Diego groups, [13] which also included Antioch Arrow and Clikatat Ikatowi. [11]
San Diego (/ ˌ s æ n d i ˈ eɪ ɡ oʊ / ⓘ SAN dee-AY-goh, Spanish: [san ˈdjeɣo]) is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a population of over 1.3 million, it is the eighth-most populous city in the United States and the second-most populous in the state of California.
This movement would eventually become known as the "San Diego sound". [78] Gravity was founded in 1991 by Matt Anderson, member of the band Heroin, as a means to release the music of his band and of other related San Diego groups, [79] which also included Antioch Arrow and Clikatat Ikatowi. [41]
Antioch Arrow was an American punk rock band from San Diego, California, that formed in 1992. Most of their discography was released through the San Diego independent label Gravity Records . The label was responsible raising San Diego 's profile in the underground music scene of the mid-1990s.
The California sound is a popular music aesthetic [nb 1] that originates with American pop and rock recording artists from Southern California in the early 1960s. At first, it was conflated with the California myth , an idyllic setting inspired by the state's beach culture that commonly appeared in the lyrics of commercial pop songs.
John D. Spreckles, the creator of the Spreckels organ pavilion, gifted the organ and the building to the city of San Diego. When it was given to the city, it was said it would be used for free entertainment for the people. John D. Spreckle s has invested in or owned many places such as the Hotel del Coronado, and the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Gravity is an underground independent record label from San Diego. [2] It was formed in 1991 by Matt Anderson, a member of the influential underground band Heroin. [3] It has been central in developing and promoting the "San Diego sound" – an idiosyncratic form of post-hardcore with loose, chaotic musicianship and vocals, initiated by Heroin, Antioch Arrow, and Clikatat Ikatowi, as well as ...