Category: Radio Archive

By Alina Calva To the excitement of much of the campus community, Imagine Dragons was the feature band to rock the USD campus. Imagine Dragons started humbly out of Las Vegas and rocketed to fame with the release of their hit single “It’s Time.” Many fans eagerly awaited the release […]

By Drew Parrish Big Gigantic with GRiZ House of Blues, San Diego October 4, 2012   I walked out of the House of Blues around midnight unable to hear properly, exhausted, dripping in sweat, and utterly refreshed. The music I had just experienced rejuvenated my relationship with electronic dance music; […]

  by Eden Frost   The Shins Open Air Theatre at SDSU September 30th 2012   With their electronic rhythm and hypnotizing light show of purples and blues, opening act Washed Out put the crowd in a bit of a mellow trance before The Shins on Sunday at the Open Air Theatre at […]

By Juan Barragan Matisyahu Humphreys by the Bay September 19, 2012 Southern Californians are known for their love of reggae music, and many new and upcoming reggae artists have been able to become successful by garnering a huge amount of SoCal followers. Typically, these artists are born in California, but […]

By Kayleen Fulton Yann Tiersen & Piano Chat Belly Up May 15, 2012   Yann Tiersen’s music hit me like a ton of bricks the first time that I heard it. No surprise here – I first heard his stuff on the Amelie soundtrack. My sister had just seen the […]

By Tom Roth The Knux The Griffin 1310 Morena Boulevard San Diego, CA March 27, 2012 In autumn 2009, New Orleans native and LA based fraternal duo, The Knux, graced San Diego’s now-defunct outdoor music festival Street Scene with a raucous performance of tracks from their debut album, Remind Me […]

By Tom Roth Lady Antebellum: Own the Night 2012 World Tour with Darius Rucker and Thompson Square Saturday, March 24, 2012 Cricket Wireless Amphitheater The year is 2007. The location is a truck stop diner in rural Wisconsin. About fifteen lonely patrons are hunched over their breakfasts and a band from […]

By Matt Hose Bela Fleck & The Flecktones The Anthology 1337 India Street, San Diego, CA 92101 March 13 & March 14 at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm All Ages   Can the return of an original band member after twenty years raise a band to its former glory? With the 2011 […]

By Sarah Jorgensen   Punch Brothers El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles March 10, 2012   Punch Brothers bassist Paul Kowert hit the nail on the head in my interview with him when he said that seeing the band live was like hearing “the record on caffeine.” This energetic bluegrass and folk […]