Jul 16,2026
The Loons, Mohama Saz, Saguaro at The Casbah
The Casbah bills itself as the center of San Diego music, and on July 16 it earns that title: a triple bill that should not work and does.
The Loons have been mining Southern California psychedelic rock history for decades. Garage-drenched, reverb-heavy, the kind of band that sounds like 1967 refusing to die quietly. Mohama Saz enters from a completely different direction: Turkish saz, the long-necked lute rarely heard on San Diego stages, threaded into compositions that travel between Istanbul and California without landing anywhere obvious. Saguaro opens.
What happens when three bands with no obvious common denominator share a Casbah stage is exactly what twenty dollars is for. The room holds 200. By the time the headliner lands, the crowd that stayed through all three sets will have become something specific — a room that knows it witnessed something you do not get on an ordinary night in San Diego.
21+. Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:30pm. 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Diego.
The Casbah bills itself as the center of San Diego music, and on July 16 it earns that title: a triple bill that should not work and does.
The Loons have been mining Southern California psychedelic rock history for decades. Garage-drenched, reverb-heavy, the kind of band that sounds like 1967 refusing to die quietly. Mohama Saz enters from a completely different direction: Turkish saz, the long-necked lute rarely heard on San Diego stages, threaded into compositions that travel between Istanbul and California without landing anywhere obvious. Saguaro opens.
What happens when three bands with no obvious common denominator share a Casbah stage is exactly what twenty dollars is for. The room holds 200. By the time the headliner lands, the crowd that stayed through all three sets will have become something specific — a room that knows it witnessed something you do not get on an ordinary night in San Diego.
21+. Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:30pm. 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Diego.
The Loons have been mining Southern California psychedelic rock history for decades. Garage-drenched, reverb-heavy, the kind of band that sounds like 1967 refusing to die quietly. Mohama Saz enters from a completely different direction: Turkish saz, the long-necked lute rarely heard on San Diego stages, threaded into compositions that travel between Istanbul and California without landing anywhere obvious. Saguaro opens.
What happens when three bands with no obvious common denominator share a Casbah stage is exactly what twenty dollars is for. The room holds 200. By the time the headliner lands, the crowd that stayed through all three sets will have become something specific — a room that knows it witnessed something you do not get on an ordinary night in San Diego.
21+. Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:30pm. 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Diego.
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A Turkish saz and forty years of California psychedelia walk into The Casbah. The room holds 200.
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Thu, Jul 16 – Fri, Jul 17, 2026
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The Casbah bills itself as the center of San Diego music, and on July 16 it earns that title: a triple bill that should not work and does.
The Loons have been mining Southern California psychedelic rock history for decades. Garage-drenched, reverb-heavy, the kind of band that sounds like 1967 refusing to die quietly. Mohama Saz enters from a completely different direction: Turkish saz, the long-necked lute rarely heard on San Diego stages, threaded into compositions that travel between Istanbul and California without landing anywhere obvious. Saguaro opens.
What happens when three bands with no obvious common denominator share a Casbah stage is exactly what twenty dollars is for. The room holds 200. By the time the headliner lands, the crowd that stayed through all three sets will have become something specific — a room that knows it witnessed something you do not get on an ordinary night in San Diego.
21+. Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:30pm. 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Diego.
The Loons have been mining Southern California psychedelic rock history for decades. Garage-drenched, reverb-heavy, the kind of band that sounds like 1967 refusing to die quietly. Mohama Saz enters from a completely different direction: Turkish saz, the long-necked lute rarely heard on San Diego stages, threaded into compositions that travel between Istanbul and California without landing anywhere obvious. Saguaro opens.
What happens when three bands with no obvious common denominator share a Casbah stage is exactly what twenty dollars is for. The room holds 200. By the time the headliner lands, the crowd that stayed through all three sets will have become something specific — a room that knows it witnessed something you do not get on an ordinary night in San Diego.
21+. Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:30pm. 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Diego.
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