Match and Kerosene is the debut full-length album by the High Rolling Loners, a project that began in 2007 after their 2006 debut EP snagged a...
Encinitas is home to Laurel Sorenson, who sings and writes songs with a bluesy edge and some real rock energy. A trip to the web finds...
Steve Rule calls Encinitas home, and last year released a CD of blues covers and Hawai’ian music called A Koa Kind of Blues. That project had...
Gilbert Castellos says, “It’s good to see young people really embracing this music.” Typically dressed smart, his wheat green suit fitting him as though he were...
It’s been said before in these pages, but like a great refrain, it needs to be sung once more, with a feeling: music is a form...
A.J. Croce has always been an exciting and dynamic performer. To experience this now seasoned musician live on stage is for most folks is an unforgettable...
There is no Julie in Sometimes Julie. It is actually a duo of San Diego-based musicians: singer Monica Sorenson and multi instrumentalist Rick Walker. He had...
Jazz artist Jon Ji describes his music as “cowboy bebop and gypsy crawl,” drawing from such influences as his idol Billie Holiday, swing revivalists the Squirrel...
San Diego is blessed to have one of the premier bluegrass festivals on the West Coast right here in our back yard. The Summergrass Festival, held...