“I’m not really a professional songwriter,” Dave Alvin insists. “I tried it when I was living in Nashville in the late ‘80s. Tried the cowriting thing, but I just wasn’t good at it.Back then, the two ...

“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 didn’t set out to write a song when he started recounting a day in his life on paper 40 some years ago. But, years later, Alvin used that writing to create one of his classics, “Fourth of ...

Dave Alvin is one of our best songwriters. He wrote almost all the original material for the Blasters’ brilliant first four albums between 1981 and 1985. He wrote “Long White Cadillac,” a top-40 ...

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 ...

“The King of California” was the album that introduced Dave Alvin as a singer/songwriter. That sounds wrong, since he’d been playing guitar and writing songs for years, first as lead guitarist in The ...