No serious music aficionado will admit to relying on Pandora. But if I were to rely on a Pandora-like algorithm, I’d place Karl Denson’s Gnomes and...
The walls are alive with trippy concert posters boasting psychedelic images, vivid colors and flowery, often illegible font—the treasured artifacts of a proud Dead Head. San...
Q&A with local performer and songwriter Astra Kelly about her new transformative songwriting workshop series, called soulsong.life 1. Who is Astra Kelly? I‘m a good ol’...
Veteran singer-songwriters teaming for tours is not new. For Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter, appearing on stage together in the fashion of the old school...
When asked to sum up what this column is all about to those unfamiliar with it, I usually say something like recording tools and their applications,...
According to Albert Einstein, the most important question facing humanity is, “Is the universe a friendly place?” Do you believe the universe is abundant, generative, safe,...
Sitting in a Clairemont hotel’s outdoor patio, it’s quickly evident that there are few pleasures in the world as great as humor. In the company of...
Bluegrass music, for sure, is characterized by high intensity, virtuosic musicianship on all the acoustic instruments—banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, sometimes Dobro, and upright bass. But, the...
Now for the “something completely different” department, folk songs from the opposite corner of America by Mark Alan Lovewell, who bills himself as a Martha’s Vineyard...