Alyeska/Goon with Liv Slingerland at The Echo

It was off to The Echo to catch Alyeska. I've followed her for a little over a year and was so happy to hear that she was doing the residency at The Echo. I was familiar with all the musicians this night though most familiar with Alyeska. Liv Slingerland hit the stage first. I've seen her backing a number of musicians (Lauren Ruth Ward as well as Lucy and La Mer). I will admit I decided to head out this specific Alyeska night at The Echo to catch her set. I've always wanted to see what she brought when fronting her own band. She brought some deep vocals with an Americana sound.

Liv Slingerland

Goon is sharing the residency with Alyeska. I previously saw them at The Hi Hat when they were playing with Alyeska. Interesting how that all works. They brought their heavy, melodic sound to The Echo. I just really enjoyed their set. There is a joy to their sound.

Goon

Alyeska ended the night. There is this awesome youthful wisdom to her sound. And she approaches her set with a modest presence. To show how the night was filled with so many familiar faces, Wolf Woodcock who I also saw at The Hi Hat once, was a backing musician.

Alyeska

Love and a .38 with LANTERNS at The Satellite

It was a free Monday night at The Satellite. The free night wasn't due to a residency, but that didn't stop it from being a great night. Love and a .38 was like the Sunset Strip coming to the east side. They kept the energy up throughout the set to such a degree that I think the light guy got into it.

Love and a .38

LANTERNS opened up the night. The guitarist knows how to play at lightening speed. And the lead singer was chill with his Hawaiian inspired shirt.

LANTERNS

Space Diaries and Molino at the Silverlake Lounge

Space Diaries

Time passes and I hadn't been to Silverlake Lounge in a couple months. Molino and Space Diaries had the night. Space Diaries is the residency band for October. The lead singer hadn't had the best of days and so their set didn't go the full 30 minutes, but they still put out some solid tunes. Molino was dressed in black, but played with some smiles.

There was a solid crowd there to enjoy the night.

Molina

Janelane and French Vanilla at The Smell

It was off to The Smell to catch Janelane and French Vanilla. Janelane is one of my new favorite bands. As I believe I mentioned, the lyrics are filled with break-up emotions. French Vanilla turns it up on the hip-hop punk, especially when the saxophone comes out to play.

Opening up was Lunch Lady and Jody.

Decorator with The Mosaics and The Unending Thread at The Satellite

A new night for The Satellite's residency band hit this month of October. Decorator opened their residency with some awesome jazz infused RnB sounds. The night had that type of cool factor sound with The Mosaics and The Unending Thread opening up for them.

Lemolo at Hotel Cafe

So my story about Lemolo goes like something like this: I believe there were some stage delays at Music Tastes Good 2016. So I took a walk towards another stage to see what was going on there. I heard the lovely vocals of Lemolo and fell in love with the music.

A year later and this Seattle based band was playing Hotel Cafe on the Friday before Music Tastes Good 2017. Was I heading over to catch them? You bet. And from the looks of things, a number of friends of the band showed up, as well.

It was a set of some sweet sweet sounds.

Hopefully, during the rest of their US tour, they were able to get the keyboard working.

Jesse Jo Stark with Leroy from The North, Whispertown and Night Talks

It was Jesse Jo Stark's final residency night. I definitely was going to head on over for a second helping. Opening up were two top notch folk bands. Leroy from The North opened the night with a sound that got two women dancing on the floor. Whispertown is one of those bands I've followed for years and love to catch them whenever I can. Then Jesse Jo Stark hit the stage to an appreciative crowd. Loved the lights. Loved the sound. Loved her casual, but intense way with her performance. Night Talks was the midnight band. I couldn't stay long, but I did have to stick around to catch their first song. Always love their pop style.

Mara Connor, Desure and David (Bjorn and the Sun) at The Hi Hat

A couple Sundays back, The Hi Hat had a fundraiser to help those impacted by the hurricanes that have hit the US. Knowing that Mara Connor was going to play a set, I knew I was going to get to enjoy some folk music. David from Bjorn and the Sun opened up the day. Desure had that sound and look that reminded me of I Love Lucy and Tennessee Ernie Ford. Mara Connor was great as always. I love getting to catch her whenever I can.