The California Diner brings you some of the finest American indie music available. Chef Mike Lidskin serves up these musical treats from his home base of Sacramento, California. Willie Wisely Trio - Kiss Her And Make It Right Throwback Suburbia - Give And Take Blake Jones & The Trike Shop - Sun Up (unplugged) Honeychain - Lucky One Braam Brothers -…

The California Diner brings you some of the finest American indie music available. Chef Mike Lidskin serves up these musical treats from his home base of Sacramento, California. John York - You Just Love Cocaine A Band Called Mithras - The Wayback Machine Kat Jones - One More Second Chance The Taters - Right B4 My Eyes Sexfresh - Dilemma Ruby Free …

The California Diner brings you some of the finest American indie music available. Chef Mike Lidskin serves up these musical treats from his home base of Sacramento, California. Rob Bonfiglio - React The Artist and Me - FadedGiants Kevin Seconds - Forever Try Sue Leonard - Bye Baby Felsen - Don't Turn Your Back On Me Today Melissa Phillips - Centra…

The California Diner brings you some of the finest American indie music available. Chef Mike Lidskin serves up these musical treats from his home base of Sacramento, California. Kevin Seconds - The Elements And You Popdudes - Desperation Time Lindy LaFontaine - Free To Breathe Felsen - Mary You Could Be Happy The Corner Laughers - 8:18 Kat Jones - …

The California Diner brings you some of the finest American indie music available. Chef Mike Lidskin serves up these musical treats from his home base of Sacramento, California. The Handcuffs - Baby I Love You Melissa Phillips - Centralia Throwback Suburbia - Give And Take A Band Called Mithras - Call Out The Captain The Corner Laughers - Bells Of …

The California Diner brings you some of the finest American indie music available. Chef Mike Lidskin serves up these musical treats from his home base of Sacramento, California. Braam Brothers - Hail Violet Kevin Seconds - Forever Try Sexfresh - Dilemma The Scratch - Homely Crackle The Whiskey Saints - Every Little Thing The Corner Laughers - Chick…

The California Diner brings you some of the finest American indie music available. Chef Mike Lidskin serves up these musical treats from his home base of Sacramento, California. The Artist & Me - Faded Giants Kat Jones - The Night Is A Veil Lannie Flowers - Give Me a Chance Rose Reiter - Where You Are Kevin Seconds - The Elements And You Poplord - …

The California Diner brings you some of the finest American indie music available. Chef Mike Lidskin serves up these musical treats from his home base of Sacramento, California. Mad Tea Party - Blues Slip In Rich McCulley - Far From My Angel Katelyn Berreth - The First Time Nelson Bragg - I'm In No Mood Allen Clapp & his Orchestra - Treeline Laurie…

Chef Mike is back with the all new California Diner! Its an hour of hot freshly made tunes all the way from California. Allyson Seconds - Dig My Pig The Taters - Such A Good Day Vegas With Randolph - Summertime Nelson Bragg - She Used To Love Me Blake Jones & The Trike Shop - Sun Up (unplugged version) Emily Zuzik Band - Motels Lannie Flowers - Giv…

Chef Mike is back with the all new California Diner! Its an hour of hot freshly made tunes all the way from California. Nelson Bragg - Welcome To Nowhereville David Houston and String Theory - Everybody Knows But You Throwback Suburbia - Give And Take The Corner Laughers - (Now That I Have You I'm) Bored Skip Heller - Fools Like Me Ruby Free - Bong…

Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you with a title like that--”Not-so-grand finale”. What a horrendous name--I mean that word--”finale”--it sounds so...final.So here’s the scoop. Nearly three years ago, I sent a fan letter to a presenter whose radio show I heard, and really liked. I thought this guy did a bang up job with his show. It was one of the mo…

Well, your old Chef Mike doesn’t have a lot of new news this week. As we say here in the States, “I got nothin’!”.Well, not really “nothin’”, poor grammar notwithstanding. I’ve simply got two hours of the finest indie music available for your ears. This week is spring break, the time that people take off before Easter. And since it is, I’m going to…

Maxi Dunn - How Was I To Know?Last Breath - It's My TimeThe Vinyl Junkies - GangsMaple Mars - Beautiful MessThe Corner Laughers - Bells Of El CaminoThe Mike Brown Band - PayPatrick Campbell-Lyons - All I Do Is For YouNatalie Cortez & The Ultraviolets - Three TimesLaurie Biagini Interview/SessionLaurie Biagini - The Heart of the SongLaurie Biagini -…

A brief history of the world. Way back in the day, commercial radio sounded good. Then people got greedy, and then commercial radio didn’t sound good anymore. The end.Okay, that’s not exactly the kind of bedtime story you want to tell your little ones, unless you want them to stay up half the night, scared and worried about the future. There is act…

I need to go back and check my records. I’ll bet that last year at this time, I whined and complained about the annual time change to Daylight Savings Time. You know, the one where we lose an hour. We set the clocks forward by one hour, in an effort to make evenings last longer. Great idea, right?I gripe about it every year. How wrong is this? Let …

In an effort to bring you the most tenuous of themes, this week I bring you Geology and Geography. Those are a couple of things I studied in college long ago.Believe it or not, Geography has changed some since then--a few countries changed their names, perhaps to keep it interesting, or maybe because they hired a marketing department. Some countrie…

So when it’s your birthday, what do you want for a present? In my case, I thought it would be pretty nice to have a chat with a singer-songwriter who’s earned multiple gold and platinum records, appeared on a couple of Grammy Awards broadcasts, and sang and toured with k.d. lang. Pretty far-fetched, huh?Unbelievably, this is exactly what we’re gett…

For some time now, I’ve been alluding to a musical mecca in California’s Central Valley, known as Fresno. It’s nearly a three hour drive south of where I sit in Sacramento. Most people don’t give Fresno its due--it’s inland, and it’s a bit out of the mainstream. When outsiders talk of California--they’re thinking of Los Angeles and visualizing San …

No, it’s not the Grammy Awards show. But it is a music awards show, and it does come from the same state--California, of course!I have an annual tradition of missing the Grammy Awards show. Not because it’s a political statement; more because I’m usually not interested. Well apparently, for the first time in a long time, it appears that I really mi…

Being here in California, one sure can get spoiled. And I don’t just mean the good weather, the forward-thinking vibe, or the proximity to great hamburgers and Mexican food. I’m talking about the music.So many genres right here, and so many great bands to listen to. This week, we’ll narrow it down a bit and focus on pure pop music.We’re debuting th…