Still looking for something to do over the holiday weekend? Check out our list of upcoming events. There's tons of live music, including the 2010 Summer of Music Festival on the Redondo Beach pier. Click the title link to visit our site!
Have a safe and happy Fourth of July!
The LA Galaxy take on Seattle Sounders, July 4th at the Home Depot Center. There will be post game fireworks and upper deck trading cards for the first 5,000 fans!!! Come enjoy some soccer and celebrate Independence Day!
For tickets and more info, CLICK HERE!!
Start your summer fun with the Riviera Village Summer Festival at the corner of Catalina and Avenue I in Redondo Beach.
See artisan crafts, sample great food, and have the kids play on carnival rides. Watch local acts perform on the Community Stage and visit the Hawaiian Village, which will include Polynesian dancing. Or you can just hang in the ocean view Beer Garden, listening to great live bands all day. There will be music for all musical tastes during the two-day festival.
Email rvsummerfestival@earthlink.net , call 310-531-8939 or visit rvsummerfestival.com for more information.
The event does start at 7:30pm and will have 10 tastings that happen through out the event. Please be on time so you don't miss anything. Pre Buying your ticket saves you $5.00! Ticket includes: Dinner, 10 tastings, Ucc pint glass and a raffle ticket to enter to win $1.00 beers for one month. Dinner menu will include assorted Ucc dishes (Burgers, Sandwiches, Salads, Appetizers) PreSale $25.00
Union Cattle Company
1301 Manhattan Ave.
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
(310) 798-8227
www.unioncattleco.com
The B-Side Players are part of a new movement in popular music, a band that honors the international cross-pollination that has always made music the universal language. They use any beat that catches their ear, regardless of geography or genre, to create a compelling, horn driven, polyrhythmic groove. “The root of all pop music is African,” says Karlos Paez, the band’s lead vocalist, trumpet player and founder. “Our sound acknowledges that fact. That’s why the music is so soulful. We’re playing the ancient beats that came from Africa to create reggae, son, Afro-beat and funk and mixing ’em all together.”
The band has been laying down their own inimitable global funk since they came together in 1994. Their incendiary live shows made them local legends, while their albums showcased a band with a restless musical intelligence, effortlessly blending genres to fashion their own forward looking, Latin flavored, future-funk.
Fire In The Youth was produced by the band with the help of Quetzal Flores, leader of the Los Angeles band Quetzal, another group with a wide-ranging style based in the Latin American continuum. “Quetzal performed all the guitar tracks on the record,” Paez explains. “His eclectic arrangements helped polish our Latin, Mexican, Cuban, Funk and Rock vibe. He also brought a folkloric feel to some of the tracks with his knowledge of Jarocho (a syncopated Afro/Spanish style from Vera Cruz, Mexico) and bajo sexto ( a 12 string instrument with a sound somewhere between 12-string guitar and acoustic bass.) We recorded the whole record in 10 days, live in the studio, then added the vocals, percussion and horns.”
Like their past recordings, Fire In The Youth captures the band’s scorching musicianship and fierce political energy. The album kicks off with “Alegria”, an earth shaking reggatron groove marked by a strong salsa flava. “(Unplug) This Armageddon” rides a high stepping disco funk backbeat while Paez delivers a sizzling Bob Marley-influenced vocal full of soul and sufferation. The song explores the lives of the people that drift from San Diego, to Tijuana, to Los Angeles in search of a better life. The band suggests a return to the Earth and community as an antidote for the technology that seems to be sucking the soul out of modern life. “Fire In The Youth” combines a subtle trip hop pulse, a hint of more reggae, a lush string section and a children’s choir to offer a prayer for the salvation of the next generation. It’s one of the most moving songs the band’s ever recorded.
Saint Rocke
142 Pacific Coast Hwy
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
(310) 372-0035
www.saintrocke.com
Tickets are $12 advance and $15 day of show & are available via the box office and http://tickets.brixtonsouthbay.com/
There is no mistaking Brad Roberts’ voice. He may look like an average guy, now in his mid-40s, but then he opens his mouth and his majestic baritone voice immediately conjures fond memories of such Crash Test Dummies hits at “Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm” and “Superman.” Perhaps best remembered for the acerbic folk rock sound of 1991’s The Ghosts That Haunt Me and 1993’s God Shuffled His Feet, there have nonetheless been enough hits for the band over the years to merit a couple of greatest hits packages. Through it all, the band with Roberts at the helm has touched on funk and soul, folk, electronic music and even Christmas tunes. Yet it is Roberts’ voice and offbeat lyrical sensibility that have been this beloved band’s calling cards since their founding twenty years ago.
Brixton
100 W. Torrance Blvd.
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
(310) 406-1931
www.brixtonsouthbay.com
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