FEATURED ARTISTS:

Medicine

Body/ Head—Kim Gordon’s new project with free-noise guitarist Bill Nace

Caveman [New York]

Wild Nothing [Virginia]

Titus Andronicus [New Jersey]

Ra Ra Riot [New York]

Pictureplane [Brooklyn-based Travis Egedy]

Bleeding Rainbow [Philadelphia]

Sidney Bowen [Orange County, Calif]

Denison Witmer

Milo Greene

Zero Zero

A full listing of performers for the 2013 San Diego Music Thing

Day schedule includes featured speakers presentations, panels, mentoring and interactive sessions as well as the Instrument Petting Zoo where attendees can play with various manufacturers’ gear. Super badge holders will also have access to daytime pop up live performances and artist sessions with Lol Tolhurst (The Cure) and Scott Page (Pink Floyd) and other artists to be announced, as well as marquee nighttime showcases.

Featured speakers include Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) and Mike Herrera (MxPx).

Tickets for the San Diego Music Thing are available online

The annual event is presented by the San Diego Music Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides experiential music programs to San Diego County schools via its Guitars for Schools Program, organizes the San Diego Music Awards show and provides professional development opportunities to the community’s musicians. Proceeds from both the San Diego Music Thing and the San Diego Music Awards benefit the Guitars for Schools Program.