Josh Weinstein

I am proud and humbled to announce that my song “Jesus of Neverland” won the 2025 San Diego Music Award for Best Acoustic Song. It was unexpected and a great honor.

This is a song about making one's way as…

I'm very proud to have my record nominated for an SDMA this year! Thank you to the San Diego Music Award academy for the honor. See the full list here:

https://www.sandiegomusicawards.com/nominees/

"An epic recording...cinematic quality...a truly adventurous work, with repeated listens yielding rewards. Lyrically, the passing of time and love, drinking, laments, and the human condition play a huge part. Weinstein does an amazing job of curating the sounds and textures...…

My April 2024 column for the San Diego Troubadour.

OK, let’s get to it. 

My father had lung cancer. He lived in Florida, where medical care is…shall we gently say, inconsistent. After a complicated operation to address a side-effect…

 My March 2024 column for the San Diego Troubadour.

Let’s get morbid together, shall we? Hopefully this is not the first you are hearing about this, but: one day you will die. Actuarily speaking, that “one day” might be…

My February 2024 column for the San Diego Troubadour.

The gig is over. You leave the stage. Someone turns to you and says, “You played great.” What do you do?

If you’re like most of the musicians and other…

My January column for the San Diego Troubadour.

 

Dear Music Presenter:

Many of you–clubs, concert venues, private party-contractors–compensate us very nicely for the services we provide, and we spend much of our time feeling fortunate and valued. We are…

My December column for the San Diego Troubadour.

Dear Music-Maker:

Last month I addressed our audiences. This month I am talking to us. 

What we get to do for a living is fundamentally amazing. We put sound into the…

My November column for the San Diego Troubadour

Dear Music-Goer:

First, thank you. Anyone willing to leave the comfort of their home — where all the world’s listening and viewing options are available at will — and deal with traffic,…

My October column for the San Diego Troubadour.

Music is a time art. The same way that painters, sculptors, and architects “adorn” space, musicians decorate time. 

You may have heard the saying, “it’s the notes you don’t play that…

My September column for the San Diego Troubadour.

In this space I’ll be sharing some ideas and perspectives that I hope will be useful for you. Some of these ideas have been shaped by decades as a musician, some…

I'm proud to share my newest single with you. "Ghost of Christmas Present" is a song for anyone who is missing their family or others on the holidays. This link will take you to the hearnow page that lets you…