Indie Insider
Explore Long Beach’s Independent Book Shops, Record Stores, Coffee Shops, and More
Planted as it is between LA and the OC, Long Beach has staunchly refused to attach itself to either. The nation’s 36th largest city – bigger than Kansas City and Atlanta – has always been fiercely, proudly independent, developing its own distinct and vibrant music, art and food scenes. If you see yourself in similarly free-spirited terms, you might consider this Bohemian rhapsody of a day out at The Beach.