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Empty nesters open Craftlab Gallery

Craftlab Gallery in Oceanside opened its doors on April 6 with a solo exhibition by San Diego artist and musician Fernando Apodaca.

Music and Arts School Rock 'n' Roll San Diego to host concerts

Music and Arts School Rock 'n' Roll San Diego will begin hosting music concerts this weekend.

San Diego has lost a lot of music venues in recent months, including 4th & B, Anthology and the Calypso ...

Carl Durant is heading back to Belgium

Personal, political, economical

Belgian singer-songwriter Carl Durant, a mainstay of the local circuit for the past several years, is heading home. Durant arrived with his wife in San Diego during 2002 to work at an early-stages startup company ...

Strange Stage Stories from San Diego Musicians: Joel Kmak (The Farmers), Aquile, Tony Tonite (Sara Groban Band) and more...

Strange Stage Stories from San Diego Musicians: Aquile, Jan Tonnesen (of 1960's local heroes, The Contrasts), Tony Tonite (The Sara Groban Band), Joel Kmak (The Farmers, The Hitmakers) and Jarrod Lucas (The Phantoms, The Dragons) relate odd and interesting moments that have happened while performing...

Jan Tonnesen / The Contrasts: “In the mid-1960s my band was playing a New Years Eve gig at a Naval ...

Mission Bay High School Music Program Fundraiser April 19 to feature pianist Sue Palmer with The Preservationists

Mission Bay High School will host a pair of concerts, on April 19 (at Tango Del Rey) and May 18 (on campus) to raise funds for thier music programs.

Mission Bay High School will host a pair of fundraisers this spring for their music programs. First up will be ...

Strange Stage Stories from San Diego Musicians: Jessica Hull, Tolan Shaw (New Archaic), Paul Bell (Electric Waste Band) and more...

Strange Stage Stories from San Diego Musicians: Jessica Hull, Tolan Shaw (New Archaic), Paul Bell (Electric Waste Band), Heather Vorwerck (The Comeuppance) and Michael Inzunza (The Brandy Alexanders) relate odd and interesting moments that have happened while performing...

Michael Inzunza / The Brandy Alexanders: “In 1999, we opened up for Berlin at Cane's. Well, about three songs into ...

Real housewives, fake band

Tim Foley is best known in San Diego as a multi-instrumentalist performer with the Celtic-folk group Skelpin and for his solo work, but for his appearance in the upcoming season eight of Bravo television’s reality ...

Strange Stage Stories from San Diego Musicians: Chris Warner (Jet West), Bill Ray (Ike Turner), Nena Anderson and more...

Chris Warner of Jet West, Nena Anderson, Bill Ray of Ike Turner's Band, Drew Douglass aka Grandpadrew and Bob Sale of Rockola etc., relate odd and interesting moments that have happened while performing...

Nena Anderson - “At a show with Cash'd Out in Aspen, CO, I had a bottle of whiskey sitting on ...

Strange Stage Stories from San Diego Musicians: Skid Roper, CC (Little Hurricane), Stevie Harris (The Styletones) and more...

Skid Roper, CC from Little Hurricane, Vanja James, Stevie Harris of the Styletones and Mishey Touchie of the Touchies relate odd and interesting moments that have happened while performing...

Skid Roper: “I think it was in 1987, Mojo Nixon and I were playing at the Fillmore Auditorium in San ...

Holidazed and Confused: Led Zeppelin tunes for the holidays at Winston's Dec. 1

Anyone who would like some music to kick off the holidays which doesn’t involve a reindeer named Rudolph or other ...

Dizzy's sculpts its new space

Jazz nightspot Dizzy’s found a new home in the showroom at San Diego Jet Ski Rentals in P.B.