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 ...

Christmas concerts in July take place about as often as, well, Thanksgiving dinners in June or Easter egg-hunts in October. But that isn’t going to stop El Vez, whose December 2021 edition of his ...

SAN DIEGO — Lenny Kaye has performed in San Diego a fair number of times since making his area debut in 1976 with the Patti Smith Group at San Diego State University’s long sadly defunct Back Door.

The annual Sunset Junction Street Festival in Silver Lake has expanded so much in recent years that it’s grown far beyond its original roots as a neighborhood fair that booked primarily underground ...

American icon Elvis Presley inspired many emulators. But El Vez is matchless, drawing upon the King as a point of departure for singing about the Mexican-American experience. Who else would have the ...

You may have seen a poster of a Ricky Ricardo-looking fellow with a santa hat around town. That would be Robert Lopez -- and he is literally all over the place: DJ gigs in Pittsburg, performing at ...

If not for lowbrow art and a lackluster Elvis impersonator, El Vez might never have been born. But history conspired to have Robert Lopez — the man behind the Mexican Elvis — curate an Elvis-inspired ...