By Tom Roth It’s always exciting to watch a band rise to stardom and that’s exactly what is happening with indie LA band, Foster the People. Formed in 2009 by Mark Foster, Mark Pontius, and Cubbie Fink, the group has blown up in the last few months. Starting with […]
Read moreBy Tom Roth It is impossible to do a casual review of Atmosphere. In fact, approaching Atmosphere casually in any regard is almost as inappropriate as describing Inception as a movie about dreams. With a canon of albums reaching back to 1997, Atmosphere established themselves as one of […]
Read moreUSD Radio spoke with Jesse Flemming, one of the creators of the infamous Do Lab collective. They discussed Coachella, Lightning In A Bottle, sustainability, and music. Be sure to check out The Do Lab’s music festival incarnation, Lightning In A Bottle, May 27-30th in Silverado, CA. By: Chuck Cartwright […]
Read moreUSD Radio’s Chuck Cartwright checks out NME’s “Best Live Act”, Biffy Clyro. The band headlined an installment of the FM 94.9 “About the Music” concert series at The Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach on 4/14. By: Chuck Cartwright From the very first note that came from Simon Neil’s guitar, […]
Read moreTom “Wonderboy” Roth is studying in Dubai, contributing concert and album reviews to USD Radio. Denver-based rap group Air Dubai was too appropriate not to review. Read on for his take on their latest album, Wonder Age. By: Tom “Wonderboy” Roth When Flobots updated their social media outlets with the […]
Read moreFive Minutes with The Hood Internet’s Steve Reidell: USD Radio caught up with The Hood Internet’s Steve Reidell before his performance at UCSD’s The Loft on February 22nd. Who would have thought Dead Prez worked well with Grizzly Bear, or Rusko and Soulja Boy… even DMX and The XX? By: […]
Read moreUSD Radio is proud to endorse and support The Better Bookstore. As a business started locally by USD alumni, The Better Bookstore has been providing students with better deals on textbooks for the last two and a half years. Priding itself on being a student advocacy group, The Better […]
Read moreNight Two of Dubai’s Chill Out Festival kept true to the form of the first night. The opening acts laid out smooth beats conducive to head nodding and splaying out on the sand to soak up rays until DJ Aim wrapped up his 5:30 set. Next on the stage was […]
Read moreThe 5th Annual Chill Out Festival at the Atlantis Resort celebrates jazz, R ‘n B, and soft rock in an intimate beach venue on Dubai’s Palm Island, from April 8th to 9th, 2011. Chill Out Festival in Dubai is at once two nights of mellow music and an immense, high-energy […]
Read moreFor those of us who procrastinated, NoChella weekend is upon us. This is sad for a number of reasons, though the good news is we can take advantage of Record Store Day! Record Store Day takes place once a year, on the third Saturday in April. It is a day […]
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