Artists
T. Irie Dread WAS FOUNDED BY FREDERICK AND RODERICK (THE TWINS) BACK IN THE DAY. MAJOR INFLUENCES AT THAT TIME WERE PARLIAMENT/ FUNKADELIC AND BLACK UHURU. THEY SAW THESE BANDS ON A REGULAR BASIS AND CONFIGURED BOTH STYLES INTO THEIR OWN… (Read More)
Taj Mahal: Celebrating 40 Years
The mythology of American blues is filled with images of the lone musician standing at the crossroads, caught in that gray area between light and shadow, cutting impossible deals with dark forces, offering up nothing less than his soul as collateral… (Read More)
Like nothing the Pacific Northwest has seen before, Talkdemonic melds the primal, the classical and the modern to create songs that are as sweeping in scope as they are shattering in intensity. The band has an ability to capture the most… (Read More)
My name is Taryn, and I am a musician from San Diego,Ca. I have been playing the piano for almost twenty years, and performing professionally for almost 14 of those years…...I discovered blues at the age of eleven, and since then… (Read More)
The members of the Taylor Harvey Band have been performing music on stages of all sizes long enough to have gotten plenty of attention. Since coming together in October of 2003 through a long series of trial and error adventures, they… (Read More)
San Francisco’s Tea Leaf Green is poised to take the music scene by storm. Having amazed growing audiences in the Bay Area throughout the past few years, they have become one of the fastest evolving musical acts on the West Coast… (Read More)
After experiencing a number of professional setbacks while promoting his critically acclaimed Anghellic and Absolute Power albums, Tech N9ne felt that Everready (The Religion) was an affirmation of his staying power. “I wanted to name it Everready because if you look… (Read More)
“As strange as it may seem, country music was the music I was brought up on,” says the Englishman, whose parents are British folk-rock legends Richard and Linda Thompson. “It’s the music that’s closest to my heart and the music that… (Read More)
The history of Modern Rock music and Metal is a little vague for many younger people. Most kids these days grow up listening to Emo and soft core bubble gum pop punk. This is an opinion of where Testing Tomorrow fits… (Read More)
“Has the makings of an international pop icon. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? That 1 Guy knows (Read More)
It’s a powerhouse quartet that plays roots music with a freshness that’s hard to match. They formed as a band while on the road in Sturgis South Dakota for the Motorcycle Rally and have been blasting out Gritty, Hard Hitting Blues… (Read More)
The group separated in 1980, during the separation group co-founder Donald Manning performed internationally under the name The Abyssinians with his brother Carlton Manning (of Carlton & The Shoes) and singer David Morrison. In Jamaica, Bernard Collins performed on stage with… (Read More)
If not for the great Jamaica ska singer Derrick Morgan, the Aggrolites would quite honestly not exist. The band was borne out of a small collective of Southern Californian reggae and ska artists who, after backing the singer in a local… (Read More)
Life as a traveling musician can become monotonous. Sleep, eat, perform. Load in, load out, pass out. Repeat. This is your day, and before you realize it, your life. After a decade of the three-step grind James LaVallethe classically trained multi-instrumentalist… (Read More)
Many beers and shows later, we decided to carry forward and re-surface as The Amalgamated – a band compromised of many former members of The Hi-Lites plus a few new faces. Our influences within the group vary greatly from the original… (Read More)
The Amazing World of Arthur Brown
Arthur Brown: Uncrowned King of the Underground, Last Disciple of the First Spiritual Awakening, Enduring Champion of Freedom and Love, Charlatan, Fool, Genius, Innovator, Ordained Minister of the Lord, God of Hellfire, or simply the greatest singer we have never… (Read More)
Dave cemented his admiration and appreciation for the Punks’ talents by hiring original axeman Bart Walsh to play guitar on his “DLR Band” tours from 1999-2001. Bart’s replacement, Brian Young, recreated Eddie Van Halen’s sound and furious guitar playing so precisely… (Read More)
It is not New Year’s, and it is not a political convention. It is neither a prime time game-show, nor a music video countdown, bloated with fame and sponsorship. What you are hearing is the love for a music. It is… (Read More)
“What you see is what you get.” – The Bacon Brothers Kevin and Michael Bacon have been writing songs and playing music together since about the same time they may have been fighting over Lincoln Logs or little green Army guys… (Read More)
THE BAD PLUS Suspicious Activity? Reid Anderson – bass Ethan Iverson – piano David King – drums A billboard outside the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport advises travelers to report “Suspicious Activity,” a phrase which typifies the “paranoid security conscious society in… (Read More)
Born of the streets of Normal Heights, The Bankhead Press brings new meaning to soul music in San Diego. Their influences include The Meters, Booker T. and the MG’s, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy McGriff, Bernard Purdie, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Steely Dan… (Read More)
After the release of Blue Horse (2000) and Chinatown (2003), the Vancouver-based band played a handful of amazing live shows, but they took a break from serious touring and busied themselves with other projects. In Frazey Ford’s case, one “project” was… (Read More)
The release of We’re Already Gone and Water (a compilation), in the U.S. saw the beautiful girls morph and trim their touring party slightly. In a “back to their roots” move the band, who have worked with a series of different… (Read More)
Two hard working, hard playing brothers from Northern California and a rock solid Philadelphia drummer. The three hooked up through a near catastrophic finger laceration and almost immediately formed what has become one of San Diegos most consistent draws, rocking club… (Read More)
The Big Sound started as an idea over the phone in 2002. Jimpy had a drum set and Jakey had a guitar, that he used as a bass. Colin came home from Australia and bought Jake a bass. Colin took Jakes… (Read More)
Picture a red moonlit night, deep in the heart of Texas, with the ghosts of Nico and Timothy Leary being called back from the dead to guide you on a journey through Heaven & Hell and back again.The Black Angels are… (Read More)
There are many reasons to put a band together; Black Kids have one of their own. Ask Reggie Youngblood, Black Kids co founder, what drives this much talked about group and he replies. “Our goal is to create music that would… (Read More)
The Black Lips are what you could call true visionaries of a skeptical age. Even from their very first 7” EP, you could tell they were doing their own thing on their own terms, and of course it didn’t sit well… (Read More)
In Spring 2002, the original Blasters—Dave Alvin, Phil Alvin, John Bazz, Bill Bateman, and Gene Taylor—took California by storm with six high-energy reunion shows. These concerts were the first in almost 18 years to include all the… (Read More)
