In 2014 can popular music be retro-sounding and innovatively forward-thinking at the same time? And what exactly does it mean to be at the vanguard of...
Had guitars been around 2000 years ago, it’s a good bet that a couple of Jesus’ hipper apostles would have been playing Hebrew folk music on...
From its opening strains of a big, loud tuba and saxophone, you know you’re going to be in for a wild ride with this premier CD...
San Diegan Dan Gindling says he started writing the songs for his CD Fingerprints a year after his wife’s 2008 passing, as a sort of therapy....
With his fourth and newest CD, Desert Diamonds, songster Michael Crossman continues his presentations of his country and country/pop crossover songs. With greater production values than...
Forget everything about what you think rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, symphonic orchestral scores, or perhaps even what the avant-garde are all about. As the title of...
San Diego’s legacy of great female torch singers tilts toward the blues side of the aisle: Jeannie Cheatham, Ella Ruth Piggee, Missy Andersen. As far as...
Contemporary Christian music was relatively new in the late ’60s when this writer was strumming a green Fender Jaguar in churches that included St Louise in...
Although Joe Garrison has played music around San Diego for a long time, he is not as well known as many of his colleagues. That’s unfortunate,...
