Austin, Texas–South by Southwest (SXSW). The world’s largest music industry conference celebrated its 28th year of existence last month and like any ambitious young person seeking...
If any Texas born country singer-songwriter could be considered a cosmic cowboy it’d have to be Michael Nesmith. After even a brief perusal of his 7’0s...
Filmmaker Clint Burkett has produced Painting the World With Music, a documentary about San Diego-based musician Steve White. White was a singer and songwriter who, until...
“The angels have schedules to keep, so I won’t keep them waiting.” “Running Away,” Lukas Nelson It’s one o’clock in the afternoon. Lukas Nelson and his...
Ask my 12-year-old son: albums are big these days. The vinyl community, or VC to the cognoscenti, is doing brisk business. New 180-gram records are being...
The technology of music recording has usually shaped, to a large extent, the music that is recorded. We have only written descriptions of popular music before...
If there’s a list of rock journalists who deserve a big budget bio pic, a) it’s a short list and b) Lester Bangs has to be...
There were a lot of things that Ingrid Croce didn’t know when she and husband Jim Rock began looking around their Park West neighborhood for a...
San Diego has always had a vibrant jazz scene, at least since the late 1950s when the likes of John Guerin, Don Sleet, and Mike Wofford...
