Look Daggers look to Long Beach with new album and DVD

There’s a moment halfway through the live performance/documentary DVD Alive For Now in Long Beach when Lord Zen (of Visionaries/Writer’s Block/LVX Collective) joins Look Daggers onstage at the Prospector during “The Youth is Getting Restless” and we see the band captured at or very close [...]

Visionaries acting seasonal

Visionaries are becoming some kind of independent elders in local hip-hop: kids in ’89, learning listeners in ’93, and promising vanguard in ’98 when they released their first album on Key Kool’s own Up Above Records. And last year’s We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For was an unabashedly personal album—Kool, Dannu, [...]