Staff Blog Entries

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roy Rapid CD Release Show - Better Late Than Never

It’s been said that timing is everything, so it is that on November 3, rock-a-billy quartet Roy Rapid and the ...

Strange Stage Stories from San Diego Musicians

Sven Erik Seaholm: “(At) the Spirit Club one ne night, I got pretty excited during a performance there and being ...

4th & B debuts new Side Stage with local music series, promoter Chris Leyva responds to his critics

Every Wednesday throughout October and November, 4th & B will devote a night to local music, to be called $4 ...

Casey Turner on forthcoming Hawaiian Tour and Mainland Invaders

On October 14, singer-songwriter Casey Turner heads to Hawaii for a tour of Hawaii, with over a dozen gigs booked. ...

Strange Stage Stories from San Diego Musicians

Unusual Stage Happenings from San Diego Musicians: Dan Luko (Neon Cough): “Last year, we were invited to play at a ...

Swallowed by the stage

From the Stage Can Be Strange files: Roni Lee (Venus & the Razorblades): “In November 2011 I opened for Missing ...

Local Pyle of Pioneers

This Sunday's edition of the Local Pyle, FM94/9's local music show hosted by Tim Pyles, won't be touting the current ...

Vista's Grand Marshal Fiddler

On March 17, downtown Vista will host their first St. Patrick's Day Parade and Festival, from 10 a.m. to 4 ...