Category: USD Radio

When I was three, I took a black piece of construction paper, drew a line down the middle with a white crayon and told my teacher I was finished with my art project. Fifteen years later, I saw the same piece of art, by a different artist, for sale in […]

I recently caught up with one of my personal heroes, Buddy from Senses Fail while the band was in town for their Out With The In Crowd Tour. Buddy has always been known for his blatant honesty, so I got to enjoy that while we discussed their new album, the tour, and […]

In contrast to a latter track title off his premiere mixtape “A Kid Named Cudi”, Kid Cudi is by no means “spazzin’” anymore. On his most recent studio album “Man On The Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager”, Cudi’s wild side which was so prevalent on AKNC is eclipsed […]

  When Story of the Year stopped by on their tour with Flyleaf, I had the opportunity to conduct this very insightful interview with guitarist Ryan Phillips: How has it been touring with Flyleaf? It’s amazing. It’s kind of weird like, I wouldn’t say we have a whole lot in […]

John Legend’s and The Roots latest collaboration album Wake Up! deserves a special concert and a special concert, it got. Following stellar openings by San Diego’s own Bedford Grove and R n’ B superstar Macy Gray, Legend took the stage at Petco Park’s Western Metal Theatre and served up precisely […]

Kristiana and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Alex and Tim from Or, the Whale this past Sunday before they played at the House of Blues here in San Diego. We immediately hit it off thanks to a shared love of Northern California- the band calls San Francisco […]

– a review of their new unreleased album Would It Kill You? By Niko Pascua For those of you USD students who attended Hellogoodbye’s Concert this homecoming and heard a few new, unfamiliar songs, the band has officially confirmed that they will be releasing a new album November 9 via […]

For those Southern Californian listeners of USD Radio, Bethany Cosentino and the lo-fi beach gems of Best Coast have probably found a comfortable home on your sonic rotation over the past five months since Crazy For You was released. If you’ve not yet given it a listen (iTunes link below), […]

Christmas came early this year, courtesy of a fresh little release from everybody’s favorite Minnesotan rap duo, Atmosphere. Sorry, let me revise that. Christmas came early this year courtesy of a monstrous twelve track EP release from Minnesota’s only rap duo, Atmosphere. There. That’s better. Once again, the collabo of […]

Who likes candy? In case you didn’t get your fill from trick-or-treating on Halloween (or mom threw out all your loot because of an irrational fear that it was poisoned) I’ve got some for you. Don’t worry, I don’t drive an unmarked white van and I don’t have any puppies […]