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HOMESPUN HOLIDAYS

December 23,

Chris Schlarb and brood deliver the best gift you'll get this year Everyone has a story about a misshapen sweater he or she received as a

gift from grandma or a poorly-knitted scarf given by a long-forgotten

ex. Trying to feign happiness for well-intentioned but badly-executed

gifts is a time-honored tradition. Conversely, one of the hardest [...]

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ROCK 'N' ROLL FUN

December 23,

The Potential Lunatics: Not kidz bop PHOTO by CECILLE SIMONS-ARAYA If the Potential Lunatics were 15 or 20 years older, we might lend them

the same skeptical ear that perks up any time a band cites Nirvana or

the Pixies as significant influences. But unlike the rest of us,

singer/guitarist Emma Simons-Araya can't remember the day Kurt [...]

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LIVE REVIEW

December 16,

Jonathan Richman PHOTO by DREW A. KELLEY DiPiazza's Fri., Dec. 11 Nights like this one are why a lot of us choose to live in Long Beach,

where Jonathan Richman (you know him from Something About Mary if you

don't know the Modern Lovers) heads on a rainy Friday evening for an

early show at DiPiazza's, after three performances [...]

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SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

December 16,

Union Name: Powered by positivity PHOTO by LAURIANO AND MILLER Local hip-hop/R&B duo Union Name—laid-back MC Barikuda (aka Jay

Martin) and soul singer Mr. Chadwick (aka Chad Bishop)—thrive on

balancing catchy club bangers with socially-conscious concepts. "Chad

and I came together when we realized we had similar senses of humor and

perspectives," says Martin. "We wanted to [...]

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FRANKENSTEREO

December 9,

Bethpage Black debut 'Opera Comique'

PHOTO by HAYLEY MURPHY Sitting in the stifling, pea-green lobby of a rehearsal studio in Signal

Hill, an interview with the members of Bethpage Black is interrupted by

a lucky proposition. As a neighboring musician in the building packs up

to leave town, he passes the band in the lobby and [...]

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ALBUM REVIEW

December 2,

Korey Dane For The Kite Flyers Self-Released Korey Dane's timing couldn't be more impeccable. On For the Kite Flyers,

he exquisitely mines the depths of depression and loneliness—nine

somber tracks based around little more than an acoustic guitar and

Dane's soft voice—becoming in the process the perfect companion to our

seasonally-affected misery. There's an incredible amount of good [...]

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POLYPHONIC ESPRIT!

December 2,

Christmas by the Caribbean with the CSULB steel-drum band PHOTO COURTESY CSULB COLLEGE OF THE ARTS With all due respect to famed cricketsman Brian Lara, it can be safely

said that the steel pan is Trinidad and Tobago's most reverberant

cultural contribution. Concave, refashioned, 55-gallon oil drums that

were heard vibrating like underwater xylophones behind the calypso [...]

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'AS LONG AS I'M VERTICAL'

November 25,

The tireless jazz raconteur Al Williams ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY Running a jazz club isn't the easiest way to take home wheelbarrows full

of cash. Fortunately, Long Beach has the determined Al

Williams—consummate drummer, passionate raconteur, wheelbarrow-less

entrepreneur. Starting out in the '70s drumming with some of the best

hard-bop talents to survive the '50s, Williams toured [...]

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'YOU SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT'

November 25,

Telomere Repair: Smash in your face

PHOTO by CARA GARCIA Creating art is a mysterious thing. No one knows where it comes from or

how it makes its way out. It just happens. Artists speak of their

inspiration, what they are into at the moment or some tragedy in their

life that catapulted them to move [...]

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ALBUM REVIEW

November 18,

Brown&Blue

'Second Chances' Self-Released So often when I hear a band, its influences date back only four or five

years, referencing the bands that listened to the bands that copied the

original band. This dilution of the original spark usually means we're

left with an inferior product. Fortunately, this isn't the case with

Long Beach five-piece Brown&Blue. [...]

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