{"id":452267,"date":"2026-09-03T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452267\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:08:10","slug":"san-diego-arts-roundup-liz-phair-and-sleater-kinney-bringing-back-the-90s-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452267\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego arts roundup: Liz Phair and Sleater-Kinney bringing back the \u201990s \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wayback Machine will be parked on Main Street in El Cajon Sunday night, between Magnolia and Avocado, or perhaps more precisely between Guyville and Sleater Kinney Road. It\u2019s 2026, but it might feel like 1994.<\/p>\n

The \u201cFlannel and the Fury Tour\u201d<\/a> is bringing Liz Phair and Sleater-Kinney to the Magnolia Theatre.\u00a0 As to those wayback references, singer-songwriter Phair announced her presence back in \u201993 with the release of her indie-rock album \u201cExile in Guyville.\u201d Written, Phair said, as a response to the macho Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cExile on Main Street\u201d album, \u201cGuyville\u201d was regarded by Phair\u2019s newfound fans as a kind of feminist manifesto.<\/p>\n

A year before, the trio Sleater-Kinney from Olympia, Wash. \u2014 Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss \u2014 broke onto the Pacific Northwest rock scene. The band took its name from a Sleater Kinney Road in Lacey, Wa., about five miles away.<\/p>\n

Both Phair and Sleater-Kinney (a duo since Weiss left the group in 2019) were associated with the so-called Riot Girrl movement of the time and while their joint tour today is, they say, about honoring the alt-music of the \u201890s it\u2019s more about their mutual admiration society.<\/p>\n

Phair has been quoted as envisioning each of these shows on tour as \u201cone night of reckless hope and musical splendor.\u201d She\u2019s always had a way with words. Should you need a reminder, go back and read the lyrics to the \u201cExile in Guyville\u201d tracks.<\/p>\n

Rock music<\/p>\n

\"DeepDeep Purple\u2019s Ian Gillan performs in a concert at the Beacon Theatre. BANG<\/p>\n

Going back in time even further than the flannel and fury era, North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in Chula Vista welcomes Deep Purple and Kansas in concert<\/a> on Tuesday night.\u00a0 For longtime fans of Purple, as their fans call them, there\u2019s good news and bad news.<\/p>\n

The good news is that the band\u2019s greatest vocalist ever, Ian Gillan, is in the fold. The bad news is that original guitarist and founding member Ritchie Blackmore is not. Maybe it doesn\u2019t matter to nostalgists, anyway, as long as they hear \u201cSmoke On the Water.\u201d<\/p>\n

Music festival<\/p>\n

\"AudienceAudience members dance at a music festival in Idyllwild. SCNG<\/p>\n

Who the band members are is not as important as the music and the spirit of community in nearby Idyllwild this evening when the mountain town two hours from San Diego hosts its Labor Day Weekend Music Festival<\/a>. This free event goes from 1 to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

If you know Idyllwild then you know the quaint Rustic Theatre on the town\u2019s main street, North Circle Drive. The festival happenings take place just behind it. To my mind a trip to Idyllwild is worth it whether or not a free music festival is going on, but this is a bonus.<\/p>\n

Powwow<\/p>\n

\"DancersDancers perform at the 2023 Barona Powwowin Lakeside. Howard Lipin \/ U-T FILE<\/p>\n

This Labor Day weekend also brings the return of the annual Barona Pow Wow<\/a>, three days in celebration of Native American culture. The setting is the Barona Indian Reservation in Lakeside.\u00a0 This is the 54th renewal of the powwow.<\/p>\n

Gourd dancing and drumming are among the planned performances that take place throughout the weekend. The powwow also offers traditional food and arts and crafts for sale. Admission to the powwow at the Barona Sports Complex is free.<\/p>\n

Art<\/p>\n

\"ComposerComposer and sound artist Ess Whiteley is featured in the sound exhibition \u201cEss Whiteley: listening materials\u201d at the Athenaeum Art Center in Logan Heights. (Ess Whiteley)<\/p>\n

You won\u2019t just see a new exhibition at the Athenaeum Art Center in Logan Heights \u2013 you\u2019ll hear it. \u201cEss Whiteley: listening materials,\u201d<\/a> which is in the Catherine and Robert Palmer Gallery through Oct. 17, was created by Ess Whiteley, a composer and sound artist.<\/p>\n

Whiteley has employed sonic waves to animate various materials in the gallery space, cones that contain rocks, clay, gravel, etc. In this way, sound becomes tangible on another level. What the listener experiences while in this environment of course depends on the listener. In any case, \u201clistening materials\u201d sounds like a bold and immersive diversion.<\/p>\n

The gallery at 1955 Julian Ave., San Diego, is closed on Sundays and Mondays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wayback Machine will be parked on Main Street in El Cajon Sunday night, between Magnolia and Avocado,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[967,181,6682,74,76,75,420,18740],"class_list":["post-452267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-entertainment","tag-latest-headlines","tag-music-and-concerts","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}