As one of the leaders of the Los Angeles band The Blasters, Dave Alvin was a driving force in the then-insurgent roots-rock movement. In the case of The Blasters, "roots" referred to the earliest days ...

Roots music legends GRAMMY Award winner Dave Alvin and GRAMMY Award nominee Jimmie Dale Gilmore share "Borderland" featuring The Guilty Ones, a new digital single that pays tribute to the Rio Grande.

KPCC's Alex Cohen talks to Dave Alvin, musician and songwriter, on the solved mystery of a So Cal poet and explorer gone missing in the 1920s and the song dedicated to his disappearance. Song plays] ...

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 ...

Dave Alvin and his big brother, Phil, made roots-rock cool in the ‘80s with The Blasters. Between Phil’s phenomenally soulful singing and Dave’s incisive songwriting and searing licks, they stirred up ...

Dave Alvin has never written an overt protest song, partly because by the time a song is written, recorded and released, its subject matter is ancient history. So he deals with topical matters in ...

Dave Alvin was barely into his 20s when he wrote “American Music,” the roots-rock anthem that serves as his watchword. With the Blasters, the Knitters, and on his own, Alvin surveys the expanse of ...

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 ...

Guitarist, singer and songwriter Dave Alvin will intermingle honky-tonk and roots rock with his band the Guilty Ones at Rock 'n' Bowl on Tuesday, Aug. 12. (Beth Herzhaft) Veteran California roots-rock ...