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The day The Byrds landed at Palos Verdes High
On the Friday before Halloween in 1965, the rumor spread quickly across the campus at Palos Verdes High School. The Byrds, the third most popular rock and roll band in the world, behind only the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, were going to perform at our high school?
Battle of the Bands goes virtual at Manhattan Beach Hometown Fair
The 48th annual Hometown Fair will take place online October 3 and 4, hosting arts and crafts vendors, local businesses, and a Battle of the Bands for high school aged bands.
The return of BeachLife
How do you top the most successful music festival in the history of the South Bay? by Mark McDermott Last May, the BeachLife Festival did something few thought possible. The festival not only drew 10,000 people to King Harbor in an astonishingly harmonious and celebratory fashion, brought in an array of legendary artists such as […]
BeachLife tickets photo contest
BeachLife contest Tag #welivethebeachlife on Instagram or Facebook and be entered to win.
Beach Boy’s Jardine returns to the beach
Al Jardine trio in rate performance at Saint Rocke by Don Ruane Original Beach Boys rhythm guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Al Jardine will perform at Saint Rocke on Sunday, Oct. 27, for what will be only his fourth South Bay performance in over five decades. The Beach Boys played at the opening Leonard’s department store […]
Ukulele Festival – Bakithi Kumalo, of ‘Graceland’ fame, brings his U-bass to Fest
by Mark McDermott A strange little instrument somehow found its way to a house in Soweto, a township in the Gauteng province of South Africa that forms part of the city of Johannesburg, sometime in the early 1960s. The instrument was small and whimsical and virtually unknown in that part of the world. Bakithi Kumalo […]
Bringing it all back home
David Benoit returns to El Camino College for a special night with Oleta Adams and the Asia American Youth Symphony Orchestra by Mark McDermott David Benoit’s first gig was at the Polynesian restaurant on the Redondo Beach Pier. It was 1971, and he was 16. He’d already been playing for a decade. His family’s piano […]
Spyder Surf Fest brings music, fashion, surfers to Hermosa Beach Pier Plaza
The 13th Annual Spyder Surf Fest will showcase local musicians, fashions and surf industry vendors on Saturday, April 27, following the Surfer Walk of Fame inductions.
The Beach Boys: 2019 Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame inductees
As much as any surfer on the Hermosa Beach Surfers Walk of Fame, the Beach Boys helped stoke surfing. They will be inducted in the Hermosa Beach Surfers Walk of Fame on Saturday, April 27.
Opinion: Saint Rocke’s Concerts on the Beach say goodbye to Hermosa Beach
Thank you to the people of Hermosa Beach for allowing our business, Saint Rocke, to bucket list throwing amazing live concerts on the beach every summer for the past decade. It’s been a tremendously rewarding experience and we’re saddened that this summer was our last year producing the Hermosa Beach Summer Concerts.