Music

This category shouldn’t be confused with performing arts. Articles in the music category are more contemporary music, focusing more on contemporary bands and solo artists. This category will also be a home for album reviews.

Long Beach, stand up

West Coast gangsta rap seems to be making a comeback after Snoop Dogg, staying true to his Long Beach roots, brought together local hip-hop artists to collaborate on the mixtape “Beach City.” “This is some groovy sh-t right here…all coming together for one cause: making that good music, keeping it[Read More…]

‘Strangest Things’ makes sweet music

It’s said the bedroom is where the magic happens. It’s a refuge that is at once intimate yet isolated… A place of otherness… A heterotopia. Door closed, away from judgment, daydreaming, self-reflection and imagination are free to flourish, blurring the borders between headspace and meatspace. [sidebar title=”” align=”right” background=”on” border=”all”[Read More…]

Review: Toxic Boy’s ‘Troubled’

Toxic Boy’s debut album “Troubled” opens with an eponymous force of fuzz full of slacker growls that verge on the Cobain-esque. While Toxic Boy, whose real-life name is Andy Groke, may at times exude punk bravado, in his quieter moments he reveals himself to be an introspective over-thinker. Vice gripped[Read More…]

Music Calendar

Thursday Live after Five: The Nightmare Before Christmas on Elm Street RIOTstage DJ Polyester Stars at Night Broadway and Elm Avenue Long Beach, CA, 90831 6 p.m. All ages Free Friday Mr. Moonshine Solar bear Cold Shoulders Rebel Bite 649 E Broadway, Long Beach, CA, 90802 7p.m. All ages Free[Read More…]

Live Music Calendar

The weekend is night, good people. And you know what that means: Time to close the books and burn a rug. I know you’ve all been waiting for this calendar all week, so without further ado: Thursday: Strange Lot Platonic The War Toys Moondreamzzz Que Sera 1923 East 7th Street,[Read More…]

Live music calendar

People: I have a bone to pick. This weekend I was at an undisclosed show. I was in the pit, dead center, and the band was positively killing it. So there I was two-stepping and doing a little scuttle when I looked up at the crowd around me. To my[Read More…]

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