Port of LA Lobster Festival
The annual Port of LA Lobster Festival gathers even more rock relevancy this year with a three-day bill of steadily ascendant stars. Crack through a carapace or two on Saturday to the Henry Clay People’s Replacement rock, and watch as South Bay journeymen dios emit cosmic rays. Come Sunday for Happy [...]

Cabeza de Vaca Arcestra brings ‘Faust’ to Long Beach

With his sturdy cane and no-fly-list facial hair, Jimi Cabeza de Vaca has been a fixture of the South Bay music scene for the last decade, providing ample cushioning for Joel Morales’ finely-tuned pop songs as the keyboardist for psychedelic-pop magnates dios and stringing his banjo over [...]

Jackie O points out how the strict-punk diet of Alex’s early days has dissolved now into a diverse calendar including funk instrumentals by Slippers and Odyssey and Oracle-ization by Greater California—but this is a birthday for a bar at a bar and that demands as much or more power as pop.
FRIDAY, JAN. 25
THROWRAG Salton [...]