"I'd heard from the School of Rock in Denver that they'd been able to get some of their kids on stage with Roger Waters, so I started looking around for contact information." Tyler Ward is the general manager and music …

It's a Saturday in May and borderline hot in spite of the relentless onshore breeze. 500 or so teenagers, all with music instruments, some of them held weapon-like are gathered under the shade trees on the campus of Coronado High …

Surf: A Double Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Violin, & Orchestra May 12, Swarmius, with Orchestra Nova, Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall (Five out of five stars) "I wanted to see how things sounded under water." This is how it starts …

Ernie Becquer sees trouble ahead for salsa music in San Diego. "It has been brought to my attention that a certain venue (he will not say which) is going to put a six-minute blockade on songs. No band will be …

Montalban Quintet Who is this band, and what were they thinking? No matter - fans are talking. Bright tones, driving rhythms, mildly dark and pensive at times. They say: post- punk, minimalism, jazz, new music, 50′s schmaltz and field recordings. …

"I grew up in a place called Elfin Forest. It's kind of between Stagecoach Park in La Costa and the Escondido Auto Park." Josh Ottum, 34, is on the phone from the campus of UC Irvine where he is completing …

While Monti Rock, 73, recuperates from heat exhaustion in a Las Vegas hospital his television likeness is at the center of a small controversy brewing in the East County. Last week, a San Diego drummer named Jim Daugherty found the …

"Let me just tell you what I'm looking at." Alyssa Jacey calls late on a Saturday morning from her new digs in Madison County, in Nashville Tennessee. "I'm on the patio and there are these beautiful trees blowing in the …

When Danny Tatulli and John Langan head up to Las Vegas this week they hope their band Danny and the Tramp will hit the jackpot. But the action won't be at the slots or on the tables. Instead, the gaming …

Kelsea Rae Little, indie rock harpist: "I love the expressions on sound guy's faces. Most of them have never miked a harp before." Little phones from the road; she and her boyfriend and her band, the 78s (drummer Jose Guerrero …

In January, on their web site, Kiss declared an overwhelming response to their own Kiss tribute contest. Over 200 bands from around the world had entered. They included: Kissexy from Italy, Spain's Kiss of Death, Kiss Czech Company from the …

"Smile and you'll chase Mr. Trouble away." They are singing which makes them not hard to find on this otherwise quiet evening. Barbershop quartets have a sound all their own, a cloying four-part harmony premeditated to draw listeners. In this …

It's gonna be like a Burning Man sideshow," says Tim Hines. "There's gonna be a lot of stuff going on, not just music." Hines, of La Mesa, is referring to an event being billed as the first annual Desert Daze …

There's trouble on the stage at Winston's. The sound guy has boosted the drums to full arena sound. The electric bass likewise thunders. The only place left to set Willie Nelson's guitar in the mix is at full gain, which …

"This," Bill Yeager says, "will probably be the biggest event in the history of the SDSU Jazz Studies Program." Yeager plays jazz 'bone, and he's an educator. For the past 27 years he has been the director of jazz studies …

**** stars out of five 1,815.7 miles from the mother ship of New Orleans the NOLA revival continues here on the West Coast. The Euphoria Brass Band, a San Diego group steeped in the traditional sounds of the second line …

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/24/21524/ Low-Budget Rockstar By Scott Ibex Orange Moon Press, Costa Mesa, CA Tip #4: Keep a Malleable Mind and Hone Your Crazy Alarm Rick Sparhawk, co-founder of the '70s band Montezuma's Revenge meets me at Cosmos in La Mesa. We …

John Pack Skypes early this morning from Baja California. He lives there year round. "After this call, I have to go up and chaperone about six bands through Mexicali and make sure they have a good experience." Pack checks his …

Reach your peak with Leroy Zeke!! There's a basketball hoop in many of Leroy Zeke's photos and for good reason: school gymnasiums were their first arenas. A San Diego band based out of Lemon Grove, they were active from 1969 …

If you listen carefully you can hear the one note on David Bowie's "Space Oddity," a glissando followed by a squawk that constitutes possibly the most famous sound in Stylophone history. Kraftwerk would come along later and play more Stylophone …