Zack Keim at Soda Bar

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Zack Keim at Soda Bar

Name: Zack Keim at Soda Bar
Start: 2026-08-05T20:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-08-05T22:30:00-07:00
Location: Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego, CA 92104

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In 10 days · Wednesday, August 5, 2026

8:30 PM PDT – 10:30 PM PDT

Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego, CA 92104

$12-$15

“Wednesday at Soda Bar. Pittsburgh songwriter, both loud catalog and…”

— @falkorcommunity

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Garage rock doesn't have to be loud to be honest -- Zack Keim has spent a decade proving that both ways, the roaring stuff with Nightlands and the hushed solo songs under his own name. It's the same restlessness pointed at two volumes, and on a Wednesday night the quiet version tends to win. Soda Bar in San Diego is the room -- three hundred capacity, El Cajon Boulevard, fifteen dollars at the door. Bring the friend who owns the tapes. The crowd is the Nightlands catalog people plus the small, stubborn solo following Zack's built across a half-dozen releases. Wednesday in San Diego, which means the people in the room came because they specifically wanted to be there, not because it was a Friday and they were free. Doors at seven-thirty, music at eight.

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