Schooled in Song II

Last year’s Schooled in Song benefit concert, organized by Long Beach Arts Council President Justin Hectus and held at the Carpenter Center, brought together some of the city’s most-loved musicians on stage in a living room setting to benefit arts and music programs for children in Long Beach schools. This year, the [...]

The Fling: Not the Loneliest Grapefruit

PHOTO by GREGORY J. AUNE
When we asked Long Beach foursome The Fling—Dustin and Graham Lovelis, Justin Ivey and Scotty Cantino—to share a little bit about themselves, the retro rollers (Chilton/Parsons/Lennon DNA absorbed through what must be some very ratty pairs of headphones) in turn asked their pal Bobby Double to [...]

The band’s new album Loyalty to Loyalty is out 9/23.

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 [...]

Paul Sharar on the Replacements

FLYER by PAUL SHARRAR
I heard the Replacements’ Pleased to Meet Me for the first time in 1987. I was 14, a freshman at Miraleste High, and it would take two years for the band to catch me—to grab me and help me grow into the person I am today.
I had maybe [...]

AUGUST 28  SAMUELI THEATRE
Cheery audience sing-alongs, calls for hand clapping and impromptu choreography—bump up the set time by eight hours and this could have been a toddler bop show, the sort of thing that unbridled cynicism usually deflates but tonight was just my favorite bits of pop rock & roll, fully realized. The set began [...]

A Little Ol’ Place Where the Commotions Get Together

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Ruben Kaban thought that when his band the Commotions—who are set to play a breast cancer benefit this Saturday—started early last year, they’d be a natural fit for the mod crowd. And in theory, he was right: His band (in which he plays guitar [...]

Another side of the blues with Ana Popovic

Ana Popovic grew up in the former Yugoslavia at a time when fighting, unemployment, inflation and government propaganda ruled. Her country had been slowly crumbling for decades thanks to the Nazis, the communists and unremitting internal strife. And if the Balkans might not seem the likeliest of places [...]