Peter Blackstock • Special to Times of San Diego, Author at Times of San Diego

Two women, each holding guitars and sitting on folding chairs, perform in a venue with a glass wall behind them.

Arts

Five questions with Lonesome Roses: Songwriting duo goes unamplified in Encinitas

by Peter Blackstock • Special to Times of San Diego March 24, 2026, 4:49 p.m.March 24, 2026, 4:49 p.m.

Their monthly series at Fox Point Farms in Encinitas starts again Thursday, but Lonesome Roses also keeps busy writing music for television.

A woman, Sara Petite, onstage under bright lights playing an acoustic guitar.

Arts

Five questions with Sara Petite: San Diego’s Americana angel has a new album due soon

by Peter Blackstock • Special to Times of San Diego March 1, 2026, 1:30 p.m.

Arts

Five questions with David Lampley: Building Jacumba’s musical oasis in the desert

by Peter Blackstock • Special to Times of San Diego Jan. 23, 2026, 5:24 p.m.Jan. 23, 2026, 5:24 p.m.

Ed Stasium, Ramones and Talking Heads producer in his Poway studio

Arts

Five questions with Ed Stasium: The Ramones and Talking Heads producer who landed in Poway

by Peter Blackstock • Special to Times of San Diego Dec. 12, 2025, 4:04 p.m.Dec. 12, 2025, 4:04 p.m.

Arts

Where a teen rock journalist became ‘Almost Famous’ – Cameron Crowe recounts San Diego past

by Peter Blackstock • Special to Times of San Diego Nov. 14, 2025, 3:19 p.m.Nov. 14, 2025, 5:23 p.m.

Arts

John Reis, who helped define an era of the city’s music, is headed to the San Diego Music Hall of Fame

by Peter Blackstock • Special to Times of San Diego Sept. 25, 2025, 4:02 p.m.Sept. 25, 2025, 11:09 p.m.