Dave Alvin knows that music isn’t created in a vacuum. And although he excels at all four styles, he’d be the first to tell you that he didn’t invent blues, country, folk or rock. Calling him the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a Texan who spent a few formative years in California. Dave Alvin is a Californian who has spent alot of time in Texas. So of course, when the Blaster and the Flatlander began ...

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 ...

Dave Alvin and the Guilty Ones had just violated a rule — “in roots rock, never, ever play a ballad at the Zoo Bar” doing “King of California” when Alvin took to the microphone for a little commentary ...

Manager and songwriter Dave Seville (Jason Lee) poses with Theodore, Alvin and Simon at a launch party for their album in Alvin and the Chipmunks. LITTLE ROCK — At an Alvin and the Chipmunks concert, ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

“Some of the stuff that’s in [the book] was written knowing that I may never play music again,” says Dave Alvin, chatting from his home in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood. “Or I may…. I may be ...

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.