Music

B.B. Dickerson: Bassist for Band War, Dead at 71

Earlier this month Los Angeles Harbor Area native B.B. Dickerson died following a long bout with an undisclosed illness at…

4 years ago

Chris Pierce’s <i>American Silence</i> Testifies Trauma Through Grace

Chris Pierce is a brilliant storyteller. On his ninth album, released Feb. 26, called American Silence, Pierce guides you through…

5 years ago

Ed Pearl: A Dedicated Life

By B. Noel Barr, Music Columnist “If you’re terrified of offending everybody, you usually say nothing. I never did that…

5 years ago

<strong><em>Breathing Free</em></strong><strong>: An Operatic Take on the Black American Struggle</strong>

Say you’re White (like me) and MLK has been your hero as far back as you can remember. Say you’ve…

5 years ago

Lila Downs, Beautiful New Song to Essential Workers

Iconic Grammy and Latin Grammy Award winning singer Lila Downs is one of the most singular and powerful voices, whose…

5 years ago

Sunny War Plays Tune In During Time of COVID

Musicians and poets from across the United States, Canada and Latin America will hold court from  Oct. 28 through 31…

5 years ago

5th Annual Peace Week

Join a week's worth of events in the harbor area to promote peace

5 years ago

Black is King

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s gift to the world By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor My assignment is to mount an expedition deep into…

5 years ago

Long Beach Blues Society Receives RuMBa Grant

Long Beach Blues Society received $50,000 of the 1 million dollars awarded which allows development of a comprehensive online music…

5 years ago

Think: George Floyd

https://soundcloud.com/terencetoy/thinkgeorge-floyd DJ Terence Toy Photo credit, Ken Hollis As uprisings sparked by the murder of George Floyd spread like wildfire…

5 years ago