Obviously it was a woman that gave him the name Tomcat, and he’s got the scars to prove it. But the man who just celebrated his...
The band was tossed together. Hired to play for a housewarming party, the group only planned to play once. They had a guitar, drums, and a...
“Right now my plan is to gig like a maniac,” says Nina Francis. She smiles, but the determined look in her eye lets me know that...
It was 8 o’clock on Sunday. Like millions of other American households, the TV in the Intravaia household in Kearny Mesa was tuned in to the...
It’s been said you can tell a lot about a person from the company they keep. When asking friends, fans, and fellow musicians about Sharifah Muhammad...
“The White House?” I ask, almost incredulous. “Yes, Hanukkah at the White House,” says Yale Strom. It’s been a week since Strom was one of around...
I don’t speak Spanish, But I understand everything when I’m dancing! –“I Don’t Speak Spanish” by Bobby Matos and John Santos Alvin Toffler’s got nothing on...
Human nature is an ever-evolving magic trick out of the act of contrition: bowing one’s head to the laws of physics, and discovering how to work...
If you were a part of San Diego’s music community back in the late ’80s and remember ‘Bluesday Tuesdays’ or Sunday afternoons at Winston’s in OB,...
