ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
Over the past four years, Katie McCoy—aka Katie Kill, aka Kate—has booked at least one or two shows per week in Long Beach. “I have loved every minute!” she says. Beyond promoting, McCoy is also a songwriter—“and sometimes a singer.” We asked McCoy about where she spends her days and nights, and [...]

Rodi Delgadillo dedicates a song to you
It’s been nearly three years ago since Rodi Delgadillo and his wife left Long Beach for Japan. The Good Foot co-founder currently has a monthly night called “Grooving” at a bar in Osaka called Caliente. “The vibe is similar to the Good Foot but I play more reggae and [...]

DJ Angelina: You can take the girl out of the Good Foot–but you can’t take the Good Foot out of the Girl

After first assisting Dennis Owens behind the turntables when Good Foot DJ and partner Rodi Delgadillo moved away from Long Beach, DJ Angelina, aka Angie Lawson, was a regular DJ at the club.  In [...]

Ten years and 600 hours of dancing at the Good Foot

PHOTO by JENNIE WARREN
DJ Scott Weaver remembers the night six years ago when the crowd became the music. Asked to guest DJ at the Good Foot—the monthly soul club held every second Friday at Que Sera—he and fellow DJ Chris Hall had arrived at the [...]

Another top show piles on—by the way, didn’t look like Raekwon and Cappadonna showed yesterday, but it was a heartfelt effort—for Long Beach today at Alex’s with Platypus Beats’ (who had Dios at our very first release party) presentation of the venerable Very Be Careful, the loved-and-local Soft Hands (profiled here and here), the telenovelic [...]

Here’s a list of some LB things for you to think about if you’re not set on plans tonight…

The Sharar Brothers come right down Santa Claus Lane

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
What a seasonal sweetheart of a show—Long Beach and beyond invited for Christmas spirits under Alex’s cozy red roof, and anyone who’s not already rotating through a come-all-ye-local line-up gets to play whatever on whatever they brought just about as midnight rolls over. “It’s [...]

Sink the Breakwater: Bring back the waves with a benefit for Surfrider Long Beach. There’s music by Mention, The New Fidelity and Kevin Shima, too. $7. 21+.
THE BULL BAR 3316 E Seventh St, Long Beach 90804. 562.433.6282.
Joanna Newsom: The dry-voiced harpist in her proper setting: a concert hall backed by a 28-piece orchestra. 8pm. $30-50.
WALT [...]