Music

DirtyHippieRadio.com Presents: Tune In Tuesdays

DirtyHippieRadio.com Presents: Tune In Tuesdays

Dirty Hippie Radio brings a free live music night to Hermosa Beach, kicking off last week with The Cigarette Bums, the Cobalt Cranes, and the Allah Las.

Sousaphone Colossus

Sousaphone Colossus

It’s hard to keep a good tuba player down. Phillip “Tuba” Frazier, stalwart sousaphonist for the Rebirth Brass Band, was kept off the stage for the first time in a quarter century after suffering a stroke in December of 2008. [...]

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars


They spent a decade in exile, moving from camp to camp. Now they travel the world, playing songs of loss, hope, peace, and love. They are the true rolling stones.

Teenage Sex and Boner

Teenage Sex and Boner

Tall Cans and Teenage Sex, Boner Machine, WorkHorse and Smart Patrol put on a killer show Saturday night at Kilkenny’s on the Redondo Beach pier.

Dirty Hippie Radio: Kid Infinity makes musical history

Dirty Hippie Radio: Kid Infinity makes musical history

An Historic Music Event: Kid Infinity – The 3D Experience The Kid Infinity experience. It is not the intent of this column to cover the musical happenings beyond the borders of our hometown; however, nowhere throughout the annals of musical [...]

Kinky Rides Again

Kinky Rides Again


Texas gubernatorial candidate, author, columnist, cigar-maker, animal rescuer, and the famed leader of the Texas Jewboys, Kinky Friedman returns to California for the first time in two decades.

Rise of Gabriels Fallen

Rise of Gabriels Fallen

by Jeff Vincent DirtyHippieRadio.com It’s a curious process to watch a young band mature. Much like the maturation of an adolescent human, the young band comes on hot, eager, naive, and a bit crazed; it’s quite fun, and potentially self-destructive. [...]

The road-going of Joe Firstman

The road-going of Joe Firstman

The late great Townes Van Zandt meditated greatly, drunkenly, and profoundly on the philosophical state of the wandering songwriter. His great opus, “Pancho and Lefty,” is only ostensibly talking about gunfighters with this weary observation that was borne out of [...]