Author Archives: Dirty Jeff
Ticket giveaway for guitar legend Phil Keaggy!
Hendrix, Clapton, Keaggy: forgotten legend plays Brixton
The legendary Phil Keaggy plays Brixton Sunday night, located on Redondo Beach pier.
Hiding in the shadows of rock and roll’s guitar greats, like a bursting blast of light for those who find him, and a legend to those who always knew him, is one of the more gifted giants who simply slipped away from common knowledge. Regardless of whether his name is spoken across the dinner table, he remains in rank with the [...]
DHR Presents live at South Bay Customs w/ Cab 20, Temporal Love, and Hang Dog Expression 3/31/12
Jason Almanza, Eric Contreras, and Bert Hoover of Cab 20 during a live performance at KXLU 88.9 FM Los Angeles. The band is performing at South Bay Customs in El Segundo on Saturday, Mar. 31. Photo by Jeff Friebourg
If the South Bay music scene lacks in anything, it’s a selection of venues beyond the boxy paradigm of the bar-club circuit, joined hand in hand by a sparsity in all age shows. Patrons and bands alike go wanting [...]
Laike acid folk LP just added from Sweden!
The first and only words to us from Christofer Ståhle were, “I’m a dirty hippie who just released an acid folk album…” Boy, did he pick the right website to reach out to…
Ståhle hardly could have known that I, co-founder of DHR, possess one of those strangely unique penchants for acid folk music. In particular: U.K. acid folk, which is the realm wandered by Laike: Ståhle’s solo project that brings us the LP “Långt från stadslivets dån” (Far From the [...]
DHR hosts Latin-psych hour on Levitation Radio KXLU 88.9 FM Los Angeles 3/22/12
DHR will be co-hosting a special show tomorrow Mar. 22 on Levitation Radio 88.9 KXLU Los Angeles. It’s KXLU’s noon-3 Thursday slot for garage and psych from today and yesteryear – as well as whatever the DJ damn well feels like spinning; be it blues, funk, or some freaky French cuts. And tomorrow we got Latin psych!
Over a year ago, Levitation Radio granted us a birthday wish: to play 3 hours of Latin American psych and Brasilian Tropicalia. It was [...]
C-horse March residency at Casey’s Irish Pub
Mr. Mack Marquard holds down keys in what is otherwise the all-girl retro-pop act from Pasadena, C-horse. Continue reading
VUM LP “Night Sun” recently added!
As wolves serenade the Moon,
She smiles at their croon,
While wading in glimmering pools,
Rolling eyes at crazed fools,
Admiring herself with silver giggle,
Hiding beneath the shimmering riddle,
That no creature dances tonight,
Below magical moonlight,
For she knows she has none,
They worship the Night Sun.
Night Sun, by Jeff Vincent (inspired by The Moon, Donner Pass, and VUM)
Our placid pools were so disturbed by VUM’s debut release of “Strange Attractor,” that we tossed and turned sweaty nights away in angst-riddled anticipation for the follow up [...]
Grit Dogs play Hot Rod Magazine Cruise official after party at South Bay Customs American Motorcycles
Grit Dogs perfrom this Saturday at South Bay Customs in El Segundo
“My grandfather Bob Adkison was a real character: a cowboy, a gambler, and a man who kept his word and expected the same. Ever since he first heard me play guitar, probably when I was 10, he insisted that I learn and play ‘Streets of Laredo’ at his funeral; a request he morbidly reminded me of till the day he died. For years [...]
Soul Seeking with Kevin Sousa
“There was a seminal moment where I asked myself how honest I was going to be with this, with the reader… and I said fuck it, I gotta put out what’s me.”
Bold and powerful words, if not raw, from 41-year old Hermosa Beach resident, former Mira Costa High School teacher and Beach Sports instructor, waterman, therapist, and musician Kevin Sousa. He’s a bighearted man, known and regarded warmly by many throughout the South Bay. [...]
