Musician Interviews
Interview with Grossmont College’s Raul Sandelin, who is near completion of the film A Box Full of Rocks: The El Cajon Years of Lester Bangs. Sandlein: "I'm an El Cajon cheerleader."
Better than music is sex, says Nocturnals guitarist Scott Tournet, who recently released a solo album recorded at Earthling Studios.
Interview with the Material, a San Diego band that started about five years ago and is often compared to Paramore due to their rock sound and frontwoman.
Nine Inch Nails drummer Ilan Rubin talks about his band Regime’s EPs.
Truckee Brothers bassist Greg Friedman releases solo album Can’t Talk Now.
I Wish I, a band from the late ’90s, reunites to release Convolutions.
‘We decided to have this third record be self-titled, ’cause we feel like we really found our own sound,” says Alfred Howard of the Heavy Guilt, who will celebrate the release of their new full-length …
‘In December, we changed the name to Stone Horse.” I tell Danielle Spade the new name rings of Linda Ronstadt. She giggles: “Yeah. Stone Ponys. But my sister said our other name was too long. …
Can we all agree that garage rock has reached an impasse? Don’t get me wrong. I love fuzzed-out guitars, lo-fi drum tracks, and retro vocals as much as the next guy — and San Diego …
A.K. Skurgis gives you the one-man acoustic band live, but recorded he’s full-band electric.
Interview with Joe Waters of the Swarmius Trio and the Hausmann String Quartet, which merges classical music with rock, hip-hop, jazz, and world-music genres.
Golf, fishing, and rock and roll: Jon Goodhue emails that he is just leaving the course at Carmel Mountain Ranch at one point during the month that I spend interviewing him. A San Diego transplant …
Clairemont rapper Joseph Sardina, aka Lil’ Joe, is now known as the Clinic.
Interview with poet/producer Lizzie Wann, who used to be able to do one side of a Rubik’s cube with her feet.
The deafening, complex roar of urban movement finds kindred company in Tristan Shone’s homespun sound machines.