Category: USD Radio

“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 […]

Ludo’s fourth album Prepare the Preparations takes a bold stylistic step forward for the eccentric quartet from St. Louis. No longer too sheepish to put some of that major-label money to work, the band’s second effort under the Island Records banner looks and feels like a pop album, losing some […]

The local band charts the uncertain waters of being a new band in a treacherous time for music. Adrift on a sea of eyeliner, I make my way for the first time to the stage room at the back of SOMA, weaving through a very dimly lit lobby loosely packed […]

Loads of sunshine and an awesome line-up made West Beach this past weekend an undeniably festive affair.  Coming off some serious city-council related drama from last years West Beach Music Festival, Friday started off slow but picked up momentum as the sun set over the palms in Santa Barbara. With […]