Category: USD Radio

I’ve been sitting on Gold Motel’s most recent release, Summer House, for the past few days, soaking it up and really trying to put together an accurate review on this one. I’ve now listened to it a few times over and boy did I really soak up its summer sound. […]

With more than a decade of making music, Slightly Stoopid has gained a large and loyal fan base that embraces the band’s “fusion of acoustic rock and blues with reggae, hip-hop, and punk”.  It’s no surprise that their chill, elusive sound originated not far from USD in Ocean Beach, California. […]

Bedford Grove has got a lot going for them. The six-member coalition have, according to their official website www.bedfordgrove music.com, opened for Pat Benatar and are scheduled to open for the John Legend and Macy Grey’s upcoming Petco Park concert. They’ve appeared on a movie soundtrack (although I couldn’t find […]

“Is it just me or do you wonder if we were put here just to see / how much heartache we can take without hanging from the tallest tree?” Buddy Nielsen poses this question in the album’s first single, “Saint Anthony,” and will spend the rest of the album making […]

What would you say your major influences are? A whole bunch of different things because we are all song writers and we all listen to different things so there are like 4 bunches of things. I grew up playing jazz quite a lot. Ted grew up as a blues guitarist. […]

  Sometimes it’s nice to get exactly what you expected. That is exactly how I felt after seeing Jack Johnson play at Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre in Chula Vista on October 9. Jack delivered just what I had gone to see- album-precise versions of his hit songs, a few special guests, […]

The sun has taken a sabbatical from ‘sunny’ San Diego for what feels like weeks, but there is one event that never fails to brighten my day: The spectacle that is a command, a date, and a band all wrapped into one eccentric, sequined, hodgepodge, pirate-skank package that is March […]

Not often enough does music leave its traditional medium and embrace other opportunities to the touch the listener. Album art has become increasingly dull and no one seems to even touch physical albums anymore. Labels still give us this art (as thumbnails for iTunes) but no one really looks at […]

I am the type of music lover that thrives on predictability, regularity, and fundamental rhythms. Due to that fact, I was almost deterred from one of the most unique, interesting albums that I have heard in a long time. Cerulean is the debut album from Baths, the creation of musician/producer […]

The UK born and US bred Mark Ronson is easily one of the most underrated musicians/producers currently on the scene. Known for its jazzy, poppy, and eclectic sounds, Ronson’s repertoire includes a variety of fresh covers as well as some amazing original masterpieces. While his first album Here Comes the […]