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USD Radio caught up with Paul Hodgson, guitarist of South Afrian rock band, The Parlotones prior to their 6/2 performance at The Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach.  We talked about California, hamburgers, and the band’s wine label before the band’s set. By: Chuck Cartwright The Belly Up Tavern is […]

  USD Radio had the great pleasure of covering the Lightning In A Bottle festival in Silverado, CA, over Memorial Day weekend, May 27th-30th.  This Do Lab production featured Pretty Lights, MiMOSA, Thievery Corporation, Beats Antique, yoga, workshops, art installations and infinitely more. By: Chuck Cartwright The Do Lab laid […]

San Diego electronica lovers, be ready to rock out to some fuzzy, banging beats Saturday, June 4th at the 2nd annual Revenge of the Nerds electronic festival. With 2 stages and a lineup stacked with LA and San Diego’s best up and coming DJ’s, this event is sure to blow […]

      By Tom Roth I had the opportunity to sit down with Grieves during the Rhymesayers tour stop in Portland on May 10. Tom Roth: In May 2010, you’d just played Bamboozle Festival in New Jersey. How does where you are now compare to where you were last […]

By Tom Roth Hip-hop fans hear Blueprint and think of Jay Z. The famed album went twice platinum as the radio-favorite track, “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)” charted at #8 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in October of 2001. At that time, a little-known Ohio rapper was nursing an early career, promoting his 1999 […]

By Sarah Jorgensen I’m not afraid to admit it: I’m a huge Lady Gaga fan. However, even I was a little nervous for her new album, Born This Way, to drop. How could she ever top the tremendous commercial success of The Fame and its follow-up, The Fame Monster? The […]

By Tom Roth “What a diva” Clutching her Nikon, Tara shook her head. “He was pulling that crap the entire time I was shooting.” I’d brought Tara with me to cover the Maroon 5 concert at Dubai’s World Trade Center on April 21. We had taken turns photographing the opening […]

USD Radio checked out the Portugal the Man show May 7th at the House of Blues in Anaheim.   The band performed a variety of new songs and old favorites for a sold out crowd in support of their new album, “In the Mountain, In the Cloud”, set to be […]

By Tom Roth Tom “Wonderboy” Roth sat down with Elias Araya and Jose Gonzalez of Swedish band Junip before their show at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom to discuss touring, their new album, and Santa Claus. Wonderboy: How far back has the current tour gone and how much is remaining? Jose Gonzalez: […]

By Alex Floro The much anticipated, hyped-out beast that is Tyler the Creator’s “Goblin” slaps you in the face with musings of suicide, thoughts of rape and therapy sessions with an ominous psychiatrist Dr. TC (who could very well be a cousin of Dr. Trevis from Redman joints).  But aside […]