Arts & Nightlife

Toad the Wet Sprocket was, and occasionally still is, a rock and roll band. But Toad was also an unusually varied enterprise, an adventure, and a fleeting phenomenon in its own right.

Toad the Wet Sprocket play Brixton South Bay on the Redondo Beach pier on Thursday night.

Live music is enjoying a resurgence in the South Bay, and Saint Rocke’s Allen Sanford is leading the charge.

Rico De’Alba, 32, has been working for Shellback Tavern owner Bob Beverly since he was 12 years old. Over the 20-year stint he has become one of the most well-known faces in the South Bay bar biz.

Indie supergroup The Rescues play Saint Rocke Tuesday night.