Category Archives: Upcoming Shows

Working Class Country Music: The Midnight Screening

“Thanks for showing interest in our little hillbilly act.”

The first words offered me by a beautiful band. Beauty to begin with, because there’s omnipresent virtue in gratitude; some even say heaven. Beauty thereafter, because the music is true; and so is their story. They’re a good ol’ country band. Two brothers, from a working class desolation. A real band, an honest band. They’re The Midnight Screening.

Chuck and Matt Herman of The Midnight Screening performing at Kegs in Redondo Beach, [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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Whiskey Music, part two: Ok… Here’s The Plan

Bluegrass folk, with a hint of Punk. Like an upbeat version of The Devil Makes Three, Mumford & Sons, or Old Man Markley… laced with a hit of cocaine. Continue reading

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Rum Runners, Wharf Rats, and Roses

South Bay jam band The Rum Runners apply Jerry Garcia Band approach to favorite cover songs… performing at Kegs on the International Boardwalk in Redondo Beach, CA every other Saturday… Continue reading

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DHR guest DJs on KXLU 2/2/12

Dirty Hippie Radio is guest DJ-ing tomorrow, Thursday, Feb. 2 from noon-3 on KXLU’s Levitation Radio.

The program spins a seamless blend of new and old garage, psych, rock, and whatever penchants the DJ happens to be entertaining from week to week. Could be a bit of funk, a lot of soul, a dash of Latin garage, or a kiss of French psych. Always, the selection keeps listeners in tune with today’s beat, while reminding and unearthing what led up to [...]

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ZuhG visits second home in South Bay

ZuhG plays Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach, CA tomorrow night, Jan. 25.

It’s a fascinating accomplishment when a band from elsewhere, outside Los Angeles county, is able to secure a following here in the South Bay. I’m not talking about acts like Toots and The Maytals, Dickey Betts, or Tab Benoit, who enjoy throngs of predetermined fans flocking to their tour buses. I’m talking about everyday bands, and underground bands. Bands like Fartbarf and Temporal Love. Emerging bands on the [...]

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Assless Chaps & Fartbarf at Texas Loosey’s, Singer/Songwriters at Suzy’s

Fartbarf performs Texas Loosey's in Torrance, CA Jan. 6

 

Fartbarf

I still hear people mumble about how these guys shoot themselves in the foot with a name like Fartbarf. Bottom line: they sound good, they look good, they perform good; so, those incapable of accepting their silly name may as well make an appointment with the podiatrist.

Fartbarf call their sound more eclectic than the offspring of a Tijuana hooker, and have defined themselves as post-Neanderthal Analog Synthesizer Rock n’ [...]

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Beachbilly Bluegrass? Introducing the Green Blossom String Band.

The Green Blossom String Band, shown rehearsing for Dirty Hippie Radio, plays Saint Rock Dec. 23. Left to right, Caleb Caswell-Levy, Dan Geier, Ben and Alex Tauber. Photo by Jeff Vincent

Folk is the foundation of all spoken word music (music with song). It is the most malleable form of music, capable of adapting any variation – from Celtic jig to brazen punk, Andean folklorico to whiskey-drinkin’ cowboy… Even blues is a type of folk music, [...]

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The effervescent Vaudeville

Vaudeville plays Saint Rocke Dec. 21. Sean Johnson (L), Daniel Woods (C), Jacob Maltinsky (R), in their "best" band photo.

What sets a band apart? When everything has been done, is it enough to sound a bit like everyone in order to sound like no one? Is there anything left to do? For Vaudeville, there was one lingering thing…

“We scored an X-rated film… ‘Flesh Fantasy,’” says Sean Johnson, drummer of Vaudeville.

Actually, a la The Pretty Things/The Electric Banana, they composed [...]

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