Monday, May 19, 2008. Porterville is a band that will send you into a dancing frenzy. The band hails from Porterville -- therefore the name. Porterville is a three piece all male band. As I mentioned, the band will send you dancing, which is strange when you see the band, because one could describe them as geeky. It doesn't matter, because their sound will have you going. For a couple songs, they had a guest female take the lead vocals -- red hair flying.
Notes from Vivace
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Queen Kwong
I saw Queen Kwong at the Silverlake Lounge on May 14. It is a three piece band with a female lead singer. Per her website, the lead singer, Carre Callaway was the opening act for Nine Inch Nails in Fresno. This sort of explains things, because the set at the Silverlake Lounge was very good -- especially for a band that was only doing its third set (if I heard correctly.) So even if the band is new to the Los Angeles music scene, she is hardly a new face in music.
Queen Kwong has this Mazzy Star feel to it so this is hardly a band that has NIN influences. Most of the set was relatively mild focusing on Carre's vocals. For their last song, it picked up dramatically, which lead to an interesting situation. I guy in the audience got inspired and jumped to the front of the stage where he began to prostrate himself in front of the band. He hugged the monitor and then threw the microphone stand aside. Someone from the audience sort of looked at the situation and then pushed the guy back into the audience. Another person came over and put the microphone stand back together. Ah, the crazy drunk guy . . . every so often you see them around the Los Angeles music scene.
Notes from Vivace
Queen Kwong has this Mazzy Star feel to it so this is hardly a band that has NIN influences. Most of the set was relatively mild focusing on Carre's vocals. For their last song, it picked up dramatically, which lead to an interesting situation. I guy in the audience got inspired and jumped to the front of the stage where he began to prostrate himself in front of the band. He hugged the monitor and then threw the microphone stand aside. Someone from the audience sort of looked at the situation and then pushed the guy back into the audience. Another person came over and put the microphone stand back together. Ah, the crazy drunk guy . . . every so often you see them around the Los Angeles music scene.
Notes from Vivace
Friday, May 2, 2008
Eject at the Viper Room
I caught this band called Eject at the Viper Room recently. It is a four piece band. I guess I’d describe them as a Cure-like band without the depressing sound. I guess that is a strange sentence that might not make much sense. Their set was filled with some great catchy songs. There was a nice group of friends that had come out to see them. Most of them were rather hip looking folks. I wouldn't mind catching them another time.
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