Artists
Born in Seattle to dramatic-arts teacher parents, Alison moved to Los Angeles at the age five. With her newly single mother, Alison moved frequently around the city. She developed a strong love for the fantastic literary worlds of CS Lewis, EB… (Read More)
A Place to Bury Strangers are a power trio comprised of Oliver Ackermann (guitar/vocals), Jono MOFO (bass) and Jay Space (drums). The band play a heavy, atmospheric wall of sound-influenced blend of psychedelic rock, shoegaze and space rock. A Place to… (Read More)
Ever-tinkering and progressing, Aaron Bowen has earned a widespread recognition as both guitarist and songwriter due to his unique style and technique. Drawing influences from Hoagie Carmichael and Brian Wilson, Aaron has fused the traditional with the contemporary, blending the best… (Read More)
Abigail Washburn and The Sparrow Quartet featuring Bela Fleck with Casey Driessen and Ben Sollee
Banjo player/vocalist Abigail Washburn, cellist Ben Sollee, fiddler Casey Driessen, and banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck leap boundaries and bust genres like there’s no tomorrow as they spotlight tunes from the group’s self-titled EP. First assembled for several U.S. government-sponsored tours of… (Read More)
Aceyalone first stepped into the limelight in the early 90’s as one of the key figures in the legendary Los Angeles group the Freestyle Fellowship. Over the course of four albums, the Fellowship helped redefine West Coast hip hop. Defining albums… (Read More)
Action Andy and His Haunted Honky-Tonkers
Action Andy and His Haunted Honky-tonkers really dig playin’ primitive honky-tonk fit fer nothin’ else but drinkin’ and havin’ quite a time. Andy was raised down in south Texas and has played with a double-wide size amount of bands over the… (Read More)
Adam Hood, 28, hails from East-central Alabama, but you’d be out-of-luck trying to pigeon-hole his style geographically. First picking up a guitar at age ten, by fourteen he was playing live in church bands. By sixteen, Hood had dropped off the… (Read More)
British-Nigerian singer-songwriter Adama has been dreaming her songs ever since she was a small child. She still vividly recalls her first dream, one in which she was a conductor, dressed in black tie and tails, exquisitely attuned to each part that… (Read More)
Born Robert Steven Belew on December 23, 1949, in Covington, KY, Belew’s first instrument of interest was the drums, as he soon kept the backbeat in his high school’s marching band. But not long after his discovery of the Beatles, Belew… (Read More)
After a pair of self-released LPs (Appleseed, Music for Earthworms), he recorded Float for Mush in 2000. The former Ian Bavitz then issued a pair of singles—“Coma” and “Boom Box”—for another underground rap label paragon, Definitive… (Read More)
Welcome to the realm of Agent. As you may know, Agent 51 is defunct indefinately, but I thought I’d keep the page up so people who have enjoyed our music and shows can stop by and say hi. Here you will… (Read More)
Agua Dulce is the sweetwater that vibrates within each of our bodies when we feel the strike of the drum; the heart beat. It’s beautiful music that flows free like a waterfall pouring into the audience. The music is a fiery… (Read More)
The Forgotten Arm (SuperEgo), her fifth solo release, is exactly that: a dozen songs that tell, rather loosely, the story of John and Caroline as they meet, fall in love and road trip across America. As Mann was writing the songs… (Read More)
Printz is the musical director of the Black Eyed Peas and plays keyboards, bass, trumpet and has co-written many Black Eyed Peas songs including “Where is the Love” and “Don’t Funk With My Heart” (which won Best Rap Performance by Group… (Read More)
Al Howard and the K23 Orchestra
K23 has won the San Diego Music Award for Best Hip-Hop Band three consecutive years (2003 – 2006). The K23 Orchestra has shared the stage with such talents as Ozomatli, Soundtribe Sector 9, Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, Slightly Stoopid, Fishbone, the… (Read More)
The album was produced by Greg Lattimer who first came to attention as vocalist with New York’s Thin Lizard Dawn in the late-nineties. The album comes in addition to Albert’s role in The Strokes – he is not leaving the band… (Read More)
This June, Alejandro Escovedo released his 9th solo album Real Animal. Produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T.Rex, Thin Lizzy), Real Animal is a collective journey through Escovedo’s various musical incarnations from punk rock to string quintets and is as introspective… (Read More)
I live in a little beach town north of San Diego with my two dogs. I’ve released a few LPs, “Up With The Sun” being my fourth full-length album after two EPs in the late-90s. My most recent CD was produced… (Read More)
Alfred Howard & the K23 Orchestra
Alfred Howard & the K23 Orchestra (AH&K23) is a unique blend of hip-hop, rock, Latin, spoken word and jazz-fusion. The band consists of six pieces including; keyboard/organ, guitar, electric bass, drums, percussion/vibraphone, and a lyricist. AH&K23 is based in San Diego… (Read More)
Allied Gardens is a side project of San Diego veteran singer-songwriters Peter Bolland, Michael Tiernan and Sven-Erik Seaholm. Allied Gardens, named for the San Diego neighborhood where the album was recorded, grew out of the natural camraderie and organic friendship of… (Read More)
“The running thread – and I didn’t notice it at the time -is strength…Even if they’re not hitting you over the head,they are strong songs, coming from a worldly place?yet the language is really feminine…and people lose sight of that strength… (Read More)
ALO may be describing the inspiration for their forthcoming release Roses & Clover (out May 1st on Brushfire Records) however, it best surmises the band’s newfound approach to their music. For a band accustomed to performing songs live for years… (Read More)
“AM takes equal parts of classic Americana, folk-rock and pop, and melts them down into something entirely his own, and he does it with two things money can’t buy: imagination and taste. These sturdily built pop songs are graced with ingeniously… (Read More)
A.M. Vibe, the latest from San Diego’s rock scene, rise from the ashes of various groups Red Dye No.5, Dodgeball, and The Almighty Ultrasound—all who toured and released their music through Silver Girl, Candyfloss and Cargo. The trio admittedly… (Read More)
Hi everyone my name is Amber Ojeda. I am a singer/songwriter out of the San Diego/Los Angeles area. I am mainly influenced by the great old school jazz artist like: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington & Billy Holiday. My favorite… (Read More)
okay so one day right before graduating high school i was riding my bike through tahoe and i saw a little flyer blowing from a nail on a tree that said “wood sculpture apprenticeship” and i thought “wow, i would much… (Read More)
While fighting in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004 with the Marines, the members of American Hitmen started jamming on acoustic guitars and ammo cans to pass the time. Realizing they had something more than just casual jamming to offer, the guys formed… (Read More)
After a 10-year hiatus, American Music Club is back together!! They’ve recently completed work on a new album, Love Songs For Patriots, which will be released on Merge Records in October 2004. The band tracked the new songs in San… (Read More)
The bulk of the material on this album was penned either backstage, onstage at soundchecks, or in hotel rooms, as Lee and his band have spent the better part of 3 years on the road, sharing the stage with such legendary… (Read More)
