Pop music critic for U-T San Diego. I walk the beat (as befits a drummer who doesn't drive). Now perfecting my closed-mouth ventriloquism. Eh? Can you speak up?
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Sax great @Joshua_Redman will open the 2026/2027 Athenaeum Jazz at TSR concert series, which has presented an array of legends and rising young stars over the past 30 years. We chat with series mastermind Daniel Atkinson and others about its legacy. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
U.S.-bound pianist @atharaud and cellist @QueyrasJG are celebrating the 30th year of their artistic partnership. Queyras discusses the duo's history and much more in this new interview. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
R.I.P., #ThePenetrators singer and lyricist #GaryHeffern. His death last weekend in his native Finland may have occurred within hours of The Penetrators being inducted at the San Diego Music Hall of Fame @SDMHOF. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
This week's top San Diego concert picks include @GaryClarkJr at @HumphreysShows, @julian_lage at @UCSD, John Scofield at @BellyUpMusic and Mark Dresser at UCSD. What shows are you going to? sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
Congrats to the 2026 San Diego MusicHall of Fame honorees: @bigmountainband, Lady Dottie & The Diamonds, Dr. Oliver Luck, The Penetrators, Claudia Russell, double-threat drummer and singer Larry Grano and the late Mojo Nixon. @SDMHOF sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
Indian music legend #AmjadAliKhan and his sons will perform his sarod concerto, Samaagam, with #SameerPatel and @LaJollaSymphony & Chorus next weekend. “He is musical royalty, artistic royalty," Patel says of Khan. Beth Wood, has the story. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
On and on: #StephenBishop will launch his farewell tour next year and play a final hometown show at San Diego's Balboa Theater with @JackTempchin. Here's all the info on the tour and the show here. Who's going? @BishSongs sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
Our top San Diego concert picks include Voices Of Our City Choir's album-release gug at JULEP, @rolemodel at @SDSU, @rockhall of famer @benmont_tench's solo gig at @MusicBoxSD, and @Geese at Gallagher Square at @PetcoPark. What shows are you going to? sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
R.I.P., #FreddieJackson, dead at 69. “For no reason have I ever felt like I was a sex symbol,” he told me during our 1989 interview. “I see kids on TV sitcoms who probably haven’t even reached puberty yet, and people are calling them sex symbols!" sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
#hayleywilliams had a choice word for @USCIS at her San Diego concert Saturday at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre. Here's the story. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
Moving up fast: San Diego DJ and produce Bolo tells us all about the banner year he is having and how his mariachi roots have helped him as a producer, songwriter and DJ. sandiegouniontribune.com/202… put-out-a-bolo-on-bolo-the-san-diego-djs-career-is-taking-off-in-a-big-way/
BEat club: @THEadrianbelew tells us all about Beat, his San Diego-bound King Crimson (@DGMHQ) offshoot band with bassist @tonylevin, Rancho Santa Fe guitar ace @stevevai and drum wiz @terrybozzio. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
The coming week's top San Diego concert picks include @shabakah at @QuartyardSD, Julieta Venegas (@julietav) at @SDSU, Fantastic Negrito (@MusicNegrito) at Lou Lou's, and the @christhile-led @punchbrothers at @UCSD. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
French conductor @LudovicMalot lost his home in the Palisades Fire last year while rehearsing with the @SanDiegoSymph. His return is one likely highlight of the orchestra's new season. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
This week's San Diego concert picks include #ErykahBadu & The Alchemist at @SDSU, Linda May Han Oh at The JAI, and @GeordieGreep at The Observatory North Park. What shows are you going to? sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
A new era begins for @WinstonsOB, with partial new ownership, a new name and rebranding, a new GM who was previously the GM at Spin, the addition of a kitchen and an expanded musical format that will include electronica. Here's the full story. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
This fall's classical concert picks are coming courtesy of @SanDiegoSymph, @ljmusicsociety, Camarada, @ArtofElan, @SalonDeMusiques, @UCSD, @bachcollegiumsd, @HausmannQuartet, @SDMasterChorale and @LaJollaSymphony. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
Our top fall concert picks range from @IamBrandiCarlil, @geese_band and @carinleonofi to @punchbrothers, @GaryClarkJr and @Vieuxfarkatoure. What are yours? sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
Anastasya Korol shines equally with a microphone and a camera. The @SDSU alum sings in Phantom Twins and Fistfights With Wolves. She is also the founder of Anastasya Photography. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
The worlds of opera and rugby converge for Alexis Alfaro, a San Diego Opera chorister and @USARugby /Southern California referee. “I think of my career less as two competing identities than as one lifelong artist-athlete education,” he says. sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
