Pawns: Not for the Ordinary is the most recent CD from 24-year-old Philadelphia pianist/composer Micah Graves. All eight of the original tracks (except the track “When...
I’d only been in San Diego about a week. It was September and it was hot. My uncle Tony called them Santa Ana winds. They sure...
BACKGROUND Getting signed to a record label is (and has been) the proverbial dream for many aspiring recording artists. However, what does the term “signed” mean?...
“I wanted to do something different.” With those words musician Tom Griesgraber describes his instrument, his music… And, for that matter, Tom Griesgraber describes his life....
Little else gets the blood pumping than the pulverizing rhythm of big band swing. Arms twitch, hands beat a tempo on tabletops, feet tap then turn...
The ghost of Townes Van Zandt pursues this San Diego singer-songwriter from a childhood immersed in music and travel, to hard-core punk, power-punk, noir, alt country-rock,...
One of the best things about early summer in San Diego has been the San Diego International Fringe Festival. Music acts, theatrical groups, stand-up comics, and...
Always the Outsider is the latest release from singer/songwriter Stacy Antonel, a native San Diegan who splits her time between here and Nashville, where she moved...
No, his mind is not for rent To any god or government Always hopeful, yet discontent He knows changes aren’t permanent But change is ––Neil Peart,...
On November 18, 1972 I reviewed the Loggins and Messina concert for my college newspaper at the Orrie de Noyer Auditorium in Hackensack, New Jersey. The...