Dave Alvin isn’t making any promises, but it’s possible his headlining April 29 performance at the 2023 Adams Avenue Unplugged festival might include cameos by some of his longtime San Diego musical ...

On Saturday, June 29, The Stone Pine Sessions presents an evening with roots music legend Dave Alvin and multi-instrumentalist/producer Greg Leisz in concert at Stone Pine Hall in Lompoc, CA. This ...

After multiple cancer diagnoses in recent years, it’s a not-so-minor miracle that guitarist Dave Alvin is returning to the Mystic Theatre stage with Jimmie Dale Gilmore. “It’s one of my favorite ...

We are so spoiled with live music in this town. On any given night, it can be a dilemma picking between what show to go see. Sometimes, however, you get twice as much for your money, and the choice is ...

West Texas troubadour Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Southern California roots-rocker Dave Alvin were born worlds apart. Gilmore in Lubbock, where he co-founded the Flatlanders. He left music to join an ...

Dave Alvin - Grammy award winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Dave Alvin started his career along side his brother, Phil, in the seminal roots rock band The Blasters that they formed together in 1979.

Dave Alvin's songs have an exquisite sense of place. Names such as Abilene, the Rio Grande, and the late Los Angeles club the Ashgrove stud his lyrics. Conversely, the song's narrators are transients, ...

This baker’s dozen of odds and ends from Dave Alvin’s extensive post-Blasters career is not just a welcome release for longtime fans of the singer/songwriter ...

Dave Alvin last visited Spokane in the summer of 2016 on one of his Roots on the Rails tours. The roots-rock legend would gather a bunch of ace musicians, hop on a set of vintage train cars and barrel ...

TROY — Dave Alvin helped pioneer the roots-rock movement back in the late-'70s and early '80s with the Blasters. But he wasn't a musician to be tied down stylistically. He explored punk with the ...