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Tweet Share Tape Deck Mountain formed in San Diego in 2008, when the BlackBerry was the phone of choice and scrappy punk-pop duos like No Age and Wavves were all the rage. The mantra then, remembers singer-songwriter-guitarist Travis Trevisan with a laugh: “Who needs a bassist when you’ve got a Line 6 Delay Modeler?” That was the blueprint Trevisan followed on Ghost, Tape Deck Mountain’s ’09 debut with original drummer Paul Remund. “I was just writ...

Safety Net and Tape Deck Mountain Stream On at The 5 Spot Made-in-Nashville post-punk and shoegaze made for two excellent nights of streams from the East Side bar and venue Tweet Safety Net An abbreviated, irreverent cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up,” played at double the speed of the original, was one of many surprises in Safety Net’s performance, streamed Friday from The 5 Spot via StageIt. The trio gained its sea legs in the months before COVID, sup...