Uptown is the part of San Diego that is north of Downtown and consists of neighborhoods like Mission Hills, Hillcrest, North Park, University Heights, Kensington, Normal Heights, City Heights, and Talmadge. In this video I cover the venues, record stores, and other locations of the past as well as current venues and record stores (as this is the “trendy”, “bohemian”, “counter-culture” area of today.) Locations like…
- The Observatory in North Park (current alternative music venue)
- Queen Bee’s in North Park (current DIY venue where you can put on punk shows)
- The Empire Club in North Park (late 90s/Y2K/2000s punk rock venue that’s now a brewery called Belching Beaver)
- M-Theory in South Park (record store that’s now a Dark Horse Coffee)
- Kindred in South Park (current vegan bar and restaurant co-owned by Kory Stetina of my 90s band, Gimp)
- Whistlestop in South Park (current bar that has live punk bands sometimes)
- M-Theory in Mission Hills (their current location)
- Off-the-Record in Hillcrest (90s record store where Nirvana played an in-store performance once)
- Taang Records in Hillcrest (90s and current record store and punk rock record label out of Boston)
- Til-Two Club in Talmadge (current bar that has live punk bands a lot)
- Happy Battle Surf Co. in Talmadge (current surf shop that puts on punk shows in its back parking lot)
- The Tower Bar in City Heights (current bar that has live punk bands a lot)
- The Soda Bar in Normal Heights (current bar that has live punk bands a lot)