Artists
Forming in the summer of 2001, Sack Lunch set out to play straight ahead punk rock focusing on these three essential points: to play fast, aggressive, and loud. The style is simple – nothing fancy, nothing overdone. Their sound has found… (Read More)
Our Salsa Sunday features San Diego’s Orquesta Primo, a salsa combo started by three cousins (cousin es primo en Espanol), performs its version of traditional salsa music, layering tightly woven percussion intertwined with standup bass and piano. Salsa Dance Lessons at… (Read More)
SambaDá is one of the hottest emerging groups on the West Coast music scene, with their mixture of hard hitting dance music and exceptional live show earning them main stage slots at most of the major California music festivals this year… (Read More)
The Guild’s mission is to assist its members and interested public in the advancement of songwriting skills through educational programs, and to expose original songs to the recording, television and motion picture industries via pitch sessions with entertainment professionals. It is… (Read More)
Sankofa Center for African Dance and Culture- Changing the world through art
The Sankofa Center for African Dance and Culture is a California based charity fighting HIV/AIDS in Ghana, West Africa. S.C.A.D.C. partners with its sister charity there and uses traditional African dance, music, and drama merged with HIV/AIDS information to effectively educate… (Read More)
Following the release of her debut album The Ladder in January 2008 singer-songwriter Sara Haze was invited to perform in Toronto at Canadian Music Week (CMW). At CMW she was joined on stage by Grammy® Award winning producer/songwriter Glen Ballard and… (Read More)
She’s has been likened to June Carter, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, but Sara Petite is very much her own person; a singer-songwriter with rare vision. In her first-ever songwriting competition, two of Petite’s songs reached the semi-finals of the 2005… (Read More)
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion
The material – 11 originals plus a previously unrecorded Pete Seeger song – ranges from the stone country of “Swing of Things” and the high-lonesome folk of “In Lieu of Flowers” to the Burritos-style foot-stomper “Gotta Prove” and the rocking, biting… (Read More)
Saturna rises from the rainy haze of the Pacific Northwest, soaking in narcotic pop, racing with a super-charged engine, harnessing astral energy for a seductive sonic fix. (Read More)
There’s got to be something witty and wild about a band that names its debut album after a lingerie store in L.A. (Celebrity Trash)—but Saucy Monky’s playful sense of humor is just the beginning of the irresistible indie spirit… (Read More)
One of the most gratifying experiences any music lover can have is stumbling across an artist who has it all: brains, heart, chops, indelible melodies, songs that actually say something and an album that hangs together as a complete thought. Which… (Read More)
Sayvinyl is a rock band from San Diego that likes describing their music with made up words like eclecticistic americanismo. Sayvinyl looks great and sounds great and you want them on your radio station, record label, publishing roster, dating schedule, or… (Read More)
While inspired by the new wave of heavy metal bands like Korn, Incubus, and Deftones, Scar’d Sanity maintains their own unique identity. Brothers Paul and Adam Cunningham, Mike Prince, Casey Froke, and Clayton Payne are not afraid to let their diverse… (Read More)
On a gloomy night with the specter of diabolically horrible music looming over San Diego, a mad musical scientist leered over his table of experiments while rubbing his mustache, as mad scientists typically do. He began to add a little of… (Read More)
SCBP Presents The Solana Beach World Series of Beer Pong Satellite Tournament
For the past 18 months, Southern California Beer Pong has been hosting beer pong tournaments all around the San Diego/Los Angeles area. The Grand Prize for this double-elimination Belly Up tournament will be entry into the World Series of Beer Pong… (Read More)
Scott Wilson has extensive recording experience, in various analog studios, in Pro Tools digital environments, and also in his own digital home studio. He is a prolific songwriter, having written and recorded over 150 songs. Scott Wilson is an versatile aggressive… (Read More)
That singer/songwriter is Alex Church, a California native who looks to local authors like John Steinbeck and Jack London (whose 1904 novel The Sea Wolf provided the band name) for inspiration. Born in the small former gold rush town of Columbia… (Read More)
Sean Padrick Hayes is an American singer-songwriter. Sean Hayes plays Appalachian Ambient Folk music like an Irish rooster channeling Nick Drake (Read More)
The years between albums found Lennon collaborating with everyone from his mother, Yoko Ono, to Money Mark, Deltron 3030, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Vincent Gallo, Thurston Moore, John Zorn, Ryan Adams, The Boredoms, and Ben Lee, to name a few. But… (Read More)
“The band has always been more than our individual egos; we’re no less The Secret Machines now than we’ve ever been,” says singer/bassist/keyboardist Brandon Curtis. When his brother, co-founder/guitarist/vocalist Ben Curtis, left the band to focus on his band School of… (Read More)
A new breed of hip-hop, Serendipity Project works hard to promote conscious thought through positive vibes. Combining jaw-dropping lyricism and sultry female vocals with high-energy hip hop and funk, the band has won over crowds young and old. Having toured throughout… (Read More)
Busking is a European term for performing on city streets, subways and at outdoor markets for tips. The 7th Day Buskers came together when Shawn P. Rohlf opened up his banjo case at a Farmers Market on Sunday mornings and started… (Read More)
Dubbed “the American Rolling Stones”, the Shadows of Knight shot to the top of the music charts in 1966 with the rock anthem “GLORIA”. Over 8 million copies later, those three famous chords and that unashamed mating chant has found immortality… (Read More)
Shaka Black could alternately be called ‘hooksman’ or ‘vibesman’ because of the catchy choruses created sometimes on the fly, in the midst of ever-vibrant stageshows that run the gamut from ballads to dancehall (both U-Roy & Buju styles), but mostly groove… (Read More)
“Shaka Buku (pronounced Shocka Bookoo) Sound familiar? Dubbed “Music for the masses” by Reggae Reviews.com this band delivers a crowd shakin mix of Reggae, Rock, Funk, Jazz & Hip Hop. Anchored by the highly energetic and distinctive voice of singer/songwriter Chad… (Read More)
Shamarr Allen was born and raised in New Orleans and became immersed in music at the early age of 7. He began his professional career as a street musician in the French Quarter playing with Tuba Fats. Playing with street musicians… (Read More)
American songwriters create tunes that transcend time and space, with lyrics that intimately connect with listeners far and wide. It’s an art, but it’s also craft, one that often takes years to hone. Sometimes, though, an artist emerges fully formed, a… (Read More)
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Ms. Jones’s funk pedigree can be traced to her hometown of Augusta, Georgia, the same town that birthed the Godfather of Soul himself: James Brown. And like Mr. Brown and countless soul singers before her, Sharon honed her vocal chops in… (Read More)
