If last year’s debut from local singer-composer Camille Ku’ulei Sallave was marked by its stylistic breadth and seemingly ever-changing pace, her latest, Affaire de Cœur, is imbued throughout with an...
“Jealous Heart” may be the best song Sara Petite has turned out yet: Killer hook, rocking arrangement anchored by John Jorgenson’s biting guitar, and her patented...
There is a version of island music that exists mostly in gift shops. Palm trees, frozen drinks, sunsets rendered in aggressively artificial tropical colors. The ‘Ohana...
By the time a duo reaches its eighth album, there is a particular kind of temptation to settle in. Nathan Rivera and Jessie Andra Smith seem...
There are albums you admire from a distance. Then there are albums that invite you to take your shoes off. Anna Ballew’s debut album, Bloom, belongs...
One unquestioned benefit to the transition from music being released on vinyl records distributed by large corporations via retail shops to what we have now—where music...
For more than three decades, Lisa Sanders has quietly built one of San Diego’s most enduring musical careers, blending country, folk, blues, gospel, and soul into...
A delightfully accessible four-song EP from Vista-based Son Terre is pure ear candy—yet coupled to thoughtful lyrics that makes this one of the more intriguing local...
Virginia James doesn’t try to fit into a single genre. Throughout Time and Time Again’s ten tracks, they seamlessly skirt between singer-songwriter, folk, blues, contemporary, and...
