Book Review Author Greil Marcus made a name as rock critic by insisting that the tide of history is directly mirrored by the pop music of...
“Blonde” Bruce Thorpe was once a living legend in San Diego, and today he passed on to perhaps live another larger-than-life existence in some other far...
The question was: How did you get here? How did you make the journey from musician to concert photographer? Thinking on that, I found that the...
(To recap, from part one) Bigger things were looming on the horizon, although the route toward them was going to be circuitous. “I was playing a...
Dear Friends, We’re making a documentary film about our own Lou Curtiss, called Recordially Yours: The Lou Curtiss Story and we need your help. Readers of...
PART ONE It’s undoubtedly a common misperception among music fans that people in “the business” exist in some rarified dimension apart from regular folk. They descend...
“Registered California Voter?” “Yeah.” The signature gatherer held up a clipboard with a sheet and looked at me earnestly. “This would allow Uber and Lyft drivers...
Many fans of local music are undoubtedly familiar with the keyboard wizardry of Wolfgang Grasekamp. The German-born musician plays a whole range of venues throughout the...
The first thing that you notice about the Sea Monks is that the local San Diego band has a couple of very young band members—a tall...