Niki Randa

OC/LBC Bands Head to South By Southwest

Class Is In Session at the University By the Sea/Schooled In Song Music and Arts Festival

DJ Nobody Gets on the Good Foot Tonight

Nobody (Elvin Estela): a highest uncommon denominator kind of DJ. Well, it looks like Elvin Estela Week here at the Weekly. My Sprawl of Sound column includes a review of his and Niki Randa's Blank Blue album on Ubiquity; we run his well-informed list of top albums with references to “blue” o ... More >>

[Sprawl of sound] Blank Blue's Highwater Mark, Dead Panda's Mellow Dub

Nobody (Elvin Estela): a highest uncommon denominator kind of DJ. Well, it looks like Elvin Estela Week here at the Weekly. My Sprawl of Sound column includes a review of his and Niki Randa's Blank Blue album on Ubiquity; we run his well-informed list of top albums with references to “blue” o ... More >>

Blank Blue In-store Show at Fingerprints

Long Beach folkadelic-funk duo Blank Blue will do a CD-release show at Fingerprints record shop (where Blank Blue members Elvin Estela and Niki Randa work when they're not creating excellent music) May 6 at 8 p.m. The event is free but you must RSVP to attend. To RSVP, call Fingerprints at (562) ... More >>

Blank Blue Announce Album Release Date

Blank Blue: Blissin' up. On May 6, Ubiquity Records will release Blank Blue's debut album, Western Water Music II. This is good news because, among other things, Blank Blue—the recording project of soulful Long Beach musicians Elvin “Nobody” Estela and Niki Randa—were named the Weekly's B ... More >>

Sprawl of Sound

Pacific Motion: The Fathomless Beauty of Blank Blue

The Arts and Other Highfalutin' Stuff

Actors, troubadours, campfire singers, cowboy poets & purty pictures (Please don’t  shoot the piano player!)

Blank Blue/Dublab Benefit Podcast

Blank Blue, soon to be rocking Europe with Prefuse 73. Photo by Plastic Nancy Dublab is an excellent web radio station run by some of SoCal's most skilled musicians and DJs, many of whom will be touring Europe with Prefuse 73 Sept. 1-15. Touring Europe isn't cheap without label support, so the La ... More >>

CD Review

Various Artists, ArtDontSleep Presents From L.A. With Love ((Milan)