Former San Diegan John Mailander has relocated to Nashville, and since his last solo album in 2019 he has put together a band, John Mailander’s Forecast....
John Batdorf’s latest is a six-song EP, An Extraordinary Ordinary Life. The pop/soft-rock specialist is certainly prolific in his recorded output—this follows on the heels of...
It’s hard to imagine a world without Zak Nilsson. Then again, it is hard to lose anyone who embodied so many virtues as this gentle friend....
Hello Troubadourians! Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of YouTube reviews of so-called budget guitars—guitars starting from less that $200 in some cases, to under $400—that are...
This assured and rocking sophomore effort from San Diego’s Sea Monks shows just how far the family band has progressed since their first release, Gasoline, in...
The guitar is the instrument with which I have the most intimate understanding, having played for many years. At one point, I was practicing obsessively, sometimes...
A. J. Croce, who will turn 50 this year, has been performing since the age of 12. He has also been releasing music for a long...
All school-year long, we’ve been celebrating the 50th anniversary of UC San Diego’s iconic Geisel Library building. Designed by William Pereira, the building is an other-worldly...
This month we talk to four SDMA nominees about the upcoming event and pose five questions to Donna Larsen SAN DIEGO MUSIC AWARDS / 30TH ANNIVERSARY...
