Normandie Wilson seems to have emerged as a talent, fully formed only recently, but there is a lifetime of experience behind her cocktail jazz pop. Recently...
Aye, that’s a lovely chune… By now there must be hundreds of singer-songwriters calling San Diego home, which is both understandable and ironic. When faced with...
In 2012, four UCSD student/musicians decided to join up for a battle of the bands and Soda Pants was born. Since then, the alt-folk rock band...
Some albums instantly put the listener into a space. Like you’re there. Crackle and Shake, the newest realease from trippy-folk-rockers Podunk Nowhere, is one of those...
“Splendor in the Grass” is the opening track to Anna Danes’ debut album, Longing, and its affecting vocals are fluid throughout the entirety of the 12-song...
“We put it out on vinyl.” “Vinyl?” “Yes, vinyl.” “You mean like an LP?” I asked. Believing that the last recording committed to an actual two-sided...
Normandie Wilson is a lounge singer who writes songs in the mold of the Brill Building, Carole King, and Burt Bacharach — pop confections that are...
Hello Troubadourians! Back in July I shared a brief treatise on tube amplifiers. I also mentioned that I would talk about non-tube amps in a later...