Crazy, but Long Beach State basketball season is almost here! On Friday, Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. at Marine Stadium Park, help the Long Beach State Athletics Department kick off the men and women’s basketball season during this Concert in the Park featuring The Reel Band. They’re one of the most entertaining groups around with unreal stage presence and high energy. The Reel Band brings the best of R&B, hip-hop, Latin, salsa, and old school funk. Both men and women’s basketball teams

In 1986, somewhere between a Luau in Hawaii and the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, The Elm Street Band was born at the corner of Elm St. and Anaheim in Long Beach. They rocked a house party that night and the rest is history. Elm Street Band is one of the most well-known bands in our city and is basically a household name. I mean what other group of locals can say they headline the Long Beach Summer Concert Series along with the Municipal Band? Tens of thousands of