Music: Taking a Hardline, out of necessity
Hardline Entertainment’s Ken Seaton. Hermosa Beach resident Ken Seaton has been a man deeply seated behind South Bay’s music scene for decades. Over the years, he’s worked with bands across the board, enduring the fluctuating volatility of the music industry while proactively conjuring ever progressive strategies and methods to assist bands through the treacherous tides. This Saturday, at Waterman’s, Seaton will host CD release party for Lionize, one of a dozen bands on his Hardline Entertainment roster. Lionize is a rock-reggae band, featuring guest vocals from Reggae legends David Hinds and Selwyn Brown of Steel Pulse, as well as guitar work from Tim Sult. The band is currently on world tour, which will include the entire Vans Warped tour this summer. “I have been living in Hermosa Beach over 30 years, and one of the first people I met was Fletcher from Pennywise,” says Ken Seaton of Hardline Entertainment. “Shortly after, he and Jason Thirsk decided to form a band that later became Pennywise… Around that same time, I had started Beachfront Printing… We built a practice space for the band at my shop… I did their first tees, stickers, flyers, and printed their first EP covers…
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