One Drop from San Diego, California embraces the spirit of classic Roots Reggae and Dub music with a calculated blend of R&B, Pop and Rock subtleties. Inspired by artists like Steel Pulse, Gregory Isaacs and The Police.
One Drop’s music is infectious and well received by a wide range of age and cultural demographics. Critics describe their sound as genuine and captivating, filled with melodic choruses, refreshing vintage guitar/organ tones all cleverly layered over seductive bass lines. A recipe earning the group numerous awards including a top 10 position on BILLBOARDS Reggae charts. The voice of One Drop is soulful with brutally honest lyrics rooted from true life experiences of love and social & politcal taboos.
Prepare yourselves, if you can, for cover songs performed with such energy and attitude, with voices so pure and performances so transcendent, that you might just find yourself, against your better judgment, dancing so hard that your legs snap off, leaving your torso flopping helplessly — yet happily — into a musical oblivion. Such is the power of The Pine Mountain Logs.
For these are no ordinary covers. Surprises lurk around every corner. The Police’s “Message in a Bottle” might unexpectedly turn into the theme from “Gilligan’s Island.” The chorus to David Bowie’s “Fame” could transition into the chorus from Irene Cara’s 80s anthem, “Fame: I’m Gonna Live Forever.” Any song could end with the 70s tag “Solid Gold” — and often does.
ALO is more than a band. It’s a musical relationship that has endured for over two decades, with band members playing in numerous projects together and apart. Following the 2012 release of their freewheeling Sounds Like This, the band took time off to work on various side projects. Zach Gill (keys/vocals) toured the world with the band’s college pal Jack Johnson; Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz (guitar/vocals) played shows with the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh; Steve Adams (bass/vocals) toured and recorded with Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers; Dave Brogan (drums/vocals) joined up with Utah band, Mokie. These and other endeavors have all influenced the band’s new album Tangle Of Time.
More than previous releases, Tangle Of Time really taps into what makes ALO unique. It’s that special blend of classic songwriting and the ability to stretch out jams and distill dance floor grooves. It’s heartfelt lyrics that make you smile, reflect and just want to sing along either way. It’s four great musicians who all write and sing. And four friends who’ve been through a lot together and still support, challenge and inspire one another.
“I really appreciate the guys right now, more so than ever,” Gill shared, excitedly adding, “Years ago the feeling was, ‘I wanna get to my songs and see how they sound while we’re all here’, whereas now I’m rooting for everyone else’s songs. It’s great.”
Lebo described the shared respect and admiration the band felt during the recording process this way: “There are four strong opinions in the room, but playing together for so long we’ve all become pretty good at the empathy thing at this point; we can be very Zen about it. We truly value being together at this point in our careers, and whatever we get from our solo and side gigs, no matter how much fun we have, it’s not this.”
Put the record on your turntable, and you can clearly hear the band’s excitement to get back on the road and explore these songs with their audience. Improvisation is a staple of what the band does, and as Adams stated: “Being in that unknown is such a great life lesson beyond just the music. For all the careful planning and preparing we do, being in the moment is really when it all matters.”
Jeremy Moss • Drums, Lead Vocals
Anthony Sanudo • Guitar, Vocals
Evan Polselli • Keys, Guitar, Vocals
Harley Orion • Bass, Vocals
Stripes and Lines create a continuously fresh and inventive style of independent rock that has made
them a draw throughout southern California for many years – packing San Diego venues and touring
throughout California as well as the east and west coasts.
Avoiding the synth-pop cliches of much current “indie” music, Stripes and Lines have always done their
own thing – backgrounds in psychedelic rock, punk, and jazz as well as straight-ahead rock combine in
ways that defy easy comparisons. “There’s no formula – we’re constantly experimenting, and if we like
how something sounds, we roll with it,” says drummer and lead vocalist Jeremy Moss.
Stripes and Lines bring the old and new together with hints of Built To Spill; a driving rhythm section
reminiscent of U2 or The Police; and a touch of Velvet Underground; topped off with vocal harmonies
that suggest the great vocalists of the 60s. It’s a potent combination of high energy with musicality that
could only have been achieved after years on the road; both as Stripes and Lines and in previous
groups, these guys have covered a lot of miles.
“The major labels created genres to help retailers sell product,” adds lead vocalist and drummer Moss.
“But now that music is accessible without major label distribution, you don’t need to sound like anything
else. We bring every influence we have.” Judging from the buzz they’ve been drawing in San Diego,
and their increasing regional following, Stripes and Lines has been achieving that goal.
Sold-out shows with Company of Thieves and The Growlers as well as performances with
Manzarek-Rogers (featuring Ray Manzarek of the Doors); Switchfoot; Bedouin Soundclash; The Whigs;
The Cat Empire; and more, have further confirmed Stripes and Lines as one of the top bands to watch
in San Diego. They are regular headliners to packed houses at the Belly Up Tavern as well as
numerous other southern California venues including Los Angeles’ Viper Room, El Rey and Wiltern
Theater. They’ve been featured on both FM 94.9 and 91X, as well as LiveNation Entertainment.
On their two full-length records Slave to the New Drug and Mutiny on the Coast of Excess, as well as
their self-titled EP, they tackle the indie-rock genre with passion and creativity.
“When we got this group together, our one vision was that we would create music that every one of us
was 100% excited about, all the time, and if anyone else likes it, then that’s just a bonus,” says Orion.
“We’ve been amazed at the response and that has led us to continue pushing further.”
The B-Side Players are a 9-piece band part of a new movement in popular music. A band that honors the international
cross-pollination that has always made music the universal language. They use any beat that catches their ear,
regardless of geography or genre, to create a compelling, horn driven polyrhythmic groove.
They continue exploring the multifaceted grooves of Latin America and the Caribbean, incorporating the sounds of
Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico and Brazil with the funk, rock, jazz and hip-hop rhythms of their homeland, dropping bits of
Cumbia, Salsa, gritty street Samba, Son Montuno, Jarocho and Boogaloo into the mix.
The B*Side Players have been laying down their own inimitable latin global funk since they came together in 1994.
Their incendiary live shows have defined them as local favorites with 10 San Diego Music awards. Meanwhile their
albums showcase a band with restless musical intelligence, effortlessly blending genres to fashion their own forward
looking, latin flavored soul music. As an eight piece band the players are known for igniting crowds with their fierce
rhythms and uplifting message of unity and consciousness. Meanwhile always keeping their focus on the political
climate of the world and nation. The B-Side Players are a living and breathing cultural art experience for the mind
body and soul.
With their tight harmonies, flawless note for note renditions of Beatles hits, custom–tailored costumes, vintage instruments, Liverpudlian dialect and precise attention to every detail, Abbey Road has honed their show to become one of the most musically and visually satisfying Beatle tribute acts in the world. Abbey Road recreates the magic, music, wit and charm of the Beatles, including the Fab Four’s cheeky personalities, familiar onstage banter and patter between songs.
Three costume changes cover the full range of the Beatle experience and beyond, with authentic early black Beatle suits, Sgt. Pepper’s regalia and Abbey Road attire. Hear the piccolo trumpet solo on Penny Lane and the full orchestration of A Day in the Life. Relive the emotional intensity of Paul’s moving Yesterday solo, as well as the high energy of stadium songs like Twist and Shout and other Beatle hits.
Lauren Mulderrig, the frontwoman of the enlivening indie-rock reggae band Aloha Radio, grew up in the sun-drenched suburbs of Orange County, California. Daughter of a working-class Irish immigrant and a California transplant, she spent her formative years along the legendary Southern California coastlines.
Although Lauren’s home was broken at a young age her spirit was not. Entering her teenage years, Lauren discovered a passion for surfing. “I had finally found a way to connect with the ocean I had been talking to my whole life. Harnessing the immense energy of a wave was immediately addicting and therapeutic… a perfect escape”. It’s no surprise at this same time she began playing guitar and writing songs. Just like far-off tropical weather systems swirling into an unforgiving hurricane, these two events in her adolescent life would forever change her.
Surfing and music became her church. In a world filled with cover songs and karaoke game shows, Lauren knew she was always meant to tell her own story her own way. By the age of 15, she was already recording a full-length album and releasing it on her own record label. Lauren eventually elected for independent study for her senior year of high school in order to tour the country with her acoustic guitar performing the emotionally reflective stories she had written.
Between the surf trips, studio sessions, and wayfaring escapades she found herself surrounded by a family of other musicians and decided to form a band. Inspired by a new landscape of possibilities and a song written in Maui on her first Ukulele when she was just 17, Aloha Radio was born.
Aloha Radio is authentically familiar, using the full-color wheel of southern California’s many sounds, painting a buzzing neon sign of California punk rock reggae, soaked in reverberated foot stomping surf rock while standing on a foundation of ukulele driven anthems and west coast hip-hop rhythms. Aloha Radio is Lauren Mulderrig on lead vocals, ukulele, and guitar; Alex Barnett – Lead guitar and Lap-steel; Andrew Russell – Bass; Chris Hori; Drums
The journey to share Aloha Radio with the world began in 2012. Since their humble beginnings as a local bar act, Aloha Radio has been nominated for an OC Music Award, named Music Connection Magazine’s Top Live Band 2 years in a row, named OC Weekly’s “Next Reggae-Pop-Rock Band to Watch” and made a number of TV Performances. They have toured nationally with Pepper, Tribal Seeds, Grammy-nominated Raging Fyah, Fortunate Youth, Anuhea and The Movement; and have joined the lineup on festivals such as Doheny Days, Reggae on the River and One Love Cali Fest.
On stage the band’s chemistry is palpable. A family of otherwise lost souls intertwined by a love of music, storytelling, and connecting with others all while anxiously searching for somewhere to belong. At the head of it all stands the empowered soul seeking and flirtatious, Lauren Mulderrig. Lauren’s one of kind expression channels a sweet tenor voice reminiscent of the girl rock powered 90’s such as Edie Brickel and Shirly Manson, the punk rock energy of Gwen Stefani and Haley Williams and existential angst of Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis. Together, Aloha Radio crashes the stage with arena-sized chants, high flying jumps, and a contagious electric vivacity.
Originally inspired by lyrical visionaries such as Bob Dylan, Conor Oberst, and Gillian Welch, Lauren found herself in a new home built by the words of Bob Marley and Bradley Nowell. “I have scars on my heart just like them, and there’s something freeing knowing that, that’s what I want others to feel when they hear my words”, she states.
In 2015, Aloha Radio released two full-length albums catching the world up with their struggles, victories, and lessons in love, friendship, and family. A year and a half later in 2017, the band released the 14 track album, Golden State of Mind, a perfect blend of poppy inspirational anthems and heartfelt open letters.
“I needed to focus on the positive things in my life. It’s so easy to get bogged down by the layers we let settle on top of us, but we have the strength to shake the sediment of the past and future off of us so we can enjoy the moment for what it is; that’s what this album is all about, keeping a Golden State of Mind”, Lauren confesses.
Golden State of Mind’s rich soundscape is teeming with a California-Hawaii connection. Recorded at Kona Inn Studios, home to bands such as Pepper and Pennywise, the songs articulate Aloha Radio’s finger on the pulse of present-day indie rock as well as their love for tropical reggae music. The layers of catchy guitar riffs, bass lines and beats, demonstrate the band’s songwriting skills and pop sensibility. The album’s modern production, contributed mostly by the band itself features heavy 808’s, warm pads, and unforgettable electronic synth leads, making it a meaningful sonic adventure.
“With the release of Golden State of Mind, local reggae-rock band Aloha Radio has put on display just how much they’ve grown over the last 18 months. Their latest record still contains the group’s signature upbeat poppy tunes behind Lauren Mulderrig’s catchy vocals, but Golden State of Mind also brings layers of depth and complexity that make it appropriate for more than just an extended smoke session or cheap beer-fueled party.” – Josh Chesler, OC Weekly
The album opens with the upbeat, beefy bass driven title track – a gospel-inspired reggae reckoning. The heavy-hearted “One Drop At A Time” is a self-medicating downbeat space to find one’s breath under a sea of doubt. The cage rattling ukulele manifesto “Break The Ceiling” is trap inspired indie jam that lifts the underdog in all of us onto the shoulders of triumph. “Sipping on Summer” and “Rock Me” splash the album with true to life playful party love songs. “Tune You Out” is a rattling pop punk battle cry begging the listener to turn it up. “My favorite song is ‘This Is Goodbye’, the last on the album,” says Lauren. “It’s one of those deeply personal confessionals about growing up, shedding my skin and discovering who I am meant to be.”
Tower 7 is our local surf spot at Torrey Pines State Beach in Del Mar, California. We grew up surfing this spot and our surf instrumental music is inspired from years of surfing along the coast of North County San Diego. Unlike many surf instrumental bands that simply copy older classics, Tower 7 enjoys writing much of our own material inspired by the life we live in paradise! We also write many “songs” that are thus “sung” with words and love nearly all styles of pop, rock, R&B, country and Jazz.
The Professors are a dynamic sound force. From Dwayne Eddie to Eddie Van Halen, Led Zeppelin to Link Wray, P Funk to Pink Floyd, the Professors’ influences show in their music. A thick and juicy blend of surf, rock, blues and funk, the Professors bring a dynamic mix that entertains every time.
Atomic Groove is North County San Diego’s best in variety dance band entertainment for ALL occasions, since 1995!
This quintessential high energy cover band recreates renditions of all of your favorite dance jams from present to past. Delivered beyond expectation with enthusiasm, credibility, and a distinctive, ever-evolving personality, Atomic Groove keeps setting themselves apart from the rest with their versatility and danceability for any event. Atomic Groove features The AG Fly Girlz back up dancers, exclusive to Atomic Groove, that catapults the AG presentation to an even higher level of dance frenzy fun! Atomic Groove boasts an incredible following they’ve developed at The Belly Up Friday night Happy Hours since 2005, with packed shows full of unbelievable good vibes and dance therapy for the local community.
Many words can be used to describe award-winning recording artist Torrey Mercer: advocate, lyricist, activist, composer, survivor, vocalist. Inspired by the likes of Lady Gaga, Hayley Kiyoko and Billie Eilish, Torrey has tapped into the power of using art to draw attention to some of the world’s most pressing social issues. She has logged performances at legendary venues like Nashville’s Bluebird Café and West Hollywood’s Whisky A Go Go in addition to performing on the deck of the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego.
Torrey is currently preparing for the release of her newest EP, entitled Boys/Girls. The titular song from the EP has already generated considerable buzz for Torrey, accumulating more than 40,000 streams on Spotify while the official music video for “Boys/Girls” debuted in November on Pride.com. It is being recorded at Killingsworth Recording Company in Sherman Oaks, California and is produced by Tyler Connaghan. A second single from the EP, “Boy’s Club,” released in April. Boys/Girls is set to release late summer and will be available for streaming and digital purchase on all major platforms.
Away from music, Torrey is an outspoken advocate for several platforms, including the LGBTQ community. Torrey also has a passion for writing and motivational speaking and can often be found discussing social issues on her livestreams.
Atomic Groove is North County San Diego’s best in variety dance band entertainment for ALL occasions, since 1995!
This quintessential high energy cover band recreates renditions of all of your favorite dance jams from present to past. Delivered beyond expectation with enthusiasm, credibility, and a distinctive, ever-evolving personality, Atomic Groove keeps setting themselves apart from the rest with their versatility and danceability for any event. Atomic Groove features The AG Fly Girlz back up dancers, exclusive to Atomic Groove, that catapults the AG presentation to an even higher level of dance frenzy fun! Atomic Groove boasts an incredible following they’ve developed at The Belly Up Friday night Happy Hours since 2005, with packed shows full of unbelievable good vibes and dance therapy for the local community.
Robert “Sully” Sullivan is a noted talk show host who is best known for two programs in the “Business Meets Lifestyle” space: The Big Biz Show and Sully’s Biz Brew. He is also a business news commentator, television/radio studio owner, and singer/songwriter with a background in capital formation and investment consulting. In his personal life, he is the father of two college-age daughters who have inspired him to develop an educational investment curriculum targeted at the millennial audience.
In addition to his television and radio programs, Sully provides a daily two-minute “Business and Lifestyle” report called “Sully’s Biz Bite” to radio stations nationwide and has been a frequent contributor to FOX Business and MSNBC. He has covered business and political topics on-air and on other media outlets such as Inc.com, Forbes.com and WSJ Radio.
