BeachLife homecoming
The festival as a community reunion by Rachel Reeves For those of us who grew up in Redondo Beach, BeachLife Festival still feels surreal, even after its fourth cycle. It’s still weird and wonderful to watch tens of thousands of people stream into what we knew as Seaside Lagoon, the site of our elementary-school field trips, to watch bands whose songs people everywhere can recite. “I mean, come on, Gwen Stefani?” said Moi Juarez, vocalist of local band Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds, which has played every BeachLife since the festival’s inception in 2019. “This is the beach where we grew up–skating all over that area, surfing all over that area, working in places all along there, playing all those bars. … It’s just awesome, honestly.” To anyone who attends, BeachLife Festival is impressive. To those of us who remember soccer and baseball team parties at Seaside Lagoon, it’s “pretty wild,” in the assessment of my fourth-grade teacher, who I ran into on Saturday night before Sublime with Rome’s set. The last time Mr. Ross and I were on that waterfront together, I was nine, splashing around in a urine-filled pool of stagnant water with my friends, while he yelled at us not to run on the…
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