Music

Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new local music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now.

Bottles and other debris flew through the air, prompting one witness to say “It felt like those stories you hear on the news.”

The former accordion store turned 30 before disco was a thing.

Today would have been Andrew Duncan Brown’s 30th birthday. Just over three years ago, the well-respected local singer/songwriter lost his life under mysterious circumstances while vacationing and performing in France. At the time he was experiencing something of a musical renaissance of his own, having released his self-titled album on…

It’s a space designed to be intimate and focused entirely on the artist.

Beginning in the 1930s, “border blaster” radio stations began lining the southern divide of the United States. Unencumbered by American frequency restrictions, these Mexican superpower stations — dubbed “X stations” after the first letter of their corresponding call signs — pumped music via high-wattage frequencies across much of North America…