Can an instrumental recording tell a story? Redfox Tails’ mostly instrumental new release, Aloha, certainly boasts an inherent narrative quality. When I tweet about this album...
Bosen & Suede’s self-titled debut EP is a six-song set of acoustic pop sung by the local singer/ songwriter duo, featuring Brian Bosen and Craig Furnivall...
Whereas in past decades it was the norm for a band to wear its influences on its sleeve, being a hard rock band, a rockabilly band,...
Aaron Bowen — dyed-in-the-wool mercurial madman-genius — is on a perpetually morphing crusade. Several, actually. When the Troubadour last checked in with him via January’s cover...
Earl Thomas relocated to Northern California some time ago, but he still has a huge local fan base, as well as one in the Bay Area,...
San Diego’s Blaze Eisner’s 2011 EP, An Unquiet Mind was acoustic-based soft-rock music with bass and drum bottom; several tunes blended his clever lyrical messages with...
Don’t tell anyone I told you this, but there’s a bootleg recording from 1973 of Jack Tempchin (with his friend Tom Waits) performing a song called...
A case can be made for a thriving subgenre of emo-folk music. Combining lyrical obsessions with themes like social isolation, depression, suicide, and all manner of...
Fingerstyle guitar, a traditional technique of plucking multiple strings with multiple fingers, is almost magical. The simplest tunes and compositions that may fall flat were they...
