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As we continue to pair NFL teams with classical music indicative of their style, location, or history, we arrive at the NFC South and the AFC North. For decades, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were pirates …
Flogging Molly’s first new album in five years, Anthem, reunites the band with engineer Steve Albini. A video is streaming online for the album single “The Croppy Boy ’98,” and they released a lyric video …
The perks of playing for the Padres: Major League Baseball’s season is nearing its end, but musician Bobby Cressey is still living the dream. Not only is he one of the lucky few to make …
Giving the teams of the NFC North and AFC South their classical music patronus.
Dante Loaiza, late of Agua Dulce and currently of Maracuya, knows both sides of the border, and he allows that weirdness can break out on either side. “In Tijuana, we had one [gig] where some …
“My new song ‘Meet You’ was inspired by the news of becoming a father for the first time,” says Tolan Shaw. “I recorded my daughter Dela’s heartbeat at a doctor’s appointment within the first month, …
For many attendees, the annual Island Vibe Music Festival at Downtown’s Spanish Landing on August 13 radiated a hearty homeland vibe from the get-go. For others, the evocation of the islands was enough, and by …
When Arizona native Ashley E. Norton moved to Nashville, she landed an interesting gig hosting “songwriter rounds,” gatherings which featured groups of three or four songwriters on a stage. They rotated down the line, not …
With the NFL season upon us, I’ve decided to match each of the 32 teams with their own classical music soundtrack. We will look at eight teams each week for the month of September. This …
Guitarist/singer/songwriter Hugh Noble came to San Diego from the UK in 2014. Over the past eight years of gigging with his band Slum Summer (new album Living in Milk out now), he’s delineated the highs, …
Eighteen-year-old bassist John Murray has won multiple awards over the last few years, including “Outstanding Soloist” at both the Monterey Next Generation and Essentially Ellington competitions in 2018 and 2019. He had his pick of …
Sharing in the shell show “You don’t need tickets to enjoy the concert.” Downtown San Diego – After the Padres game on August 2nd, I cut through the Convention Center to catch my ferry home …
Having experienced studio fires, bus breakdowns, stolen gear, death, and despondency, Oceanside’s Sic Waiting calls itself “a force in the scene that will not go away. Kinda like a bad rash.” Their album A Fine …
As I stare down the barrel of yet another season of opera, for which I will need to travel, I can’t help but feel as though I’ve become less tolerant. I was once willing to …
“I had a brand and a character that looks very different from the character I portray now,” says Isabella Bennett, who plays Rabbit, one of the musical steampunk robots in Steam Powered Giraffe. The band …