Notes from Vivace Show Alerts (Los Angeles): Jan 26th - Feb 1st

A Handful of Show Alerts 

Tuesday, Jan 28th: Desperate Hauswives at Moroccan Lounge. Doors at 7 p.m.
The band is made up of talker and Fiona Grey. It is Fiona Grey's birthday party. 

Wednesday, Jan 29th: The Blushes at The Redwood Bar. Doors at 8 p.m.

One of my favorite bands. The band played Echo Park Rising in 2024. You can read my review of the festival for US Rocker here.

Thursday, Jan 30th: Blu Jay and The Lovebombs at Bar Lubitsch. Doors at 7 p.m.

Friday, Jan 31st: Boy Deluxe at The Roxy. Doors at 7 p.m.

You can read my post on their song "Bait" here.

Cancelled. Friday, Jan 31st: Harry the Nightgown at Permanent Records Roadhouse. Doors at 9 p.m.

Lead singer Sami Perez is also in bands SadGirl (that I covered for US Rocker - here) and Cherry Glazerr (also covered for US Rocker - here).

Friday, Jan 31st: Groop at Zebulon. Doors at 7 p.m.

One of the side bands for Groop is Primitive Ring. I wrote about it on my blog here.

Song Spotlight: The Darbies' Every Bitter Sun (a night at Harvard & Stone)

I do love residencies. I've been going to residencies for well over a decade. It is one of my favorite things to do when it comes to the Los Angeles music scene. I happened to notice that The Darbies were doing a three Tuesday night residency at Harvard & Stone for the month of December. I believe I didn't figure this out until their second Tuesday (Dec 10th). I ended up going elsewhere that night. I did want to catch their set, but I decided to head to The Fable to catch a wonderful singer-songwriter set by LINNEA. I have to mention, because that is such a significant contrast to what I experienced the following Tuesday when I got to catch the Darbies final residency night. 

The Darbies at Harvard & Stone

Song Spotlight: Kennedy Williams' Better Days (a night at Hotel Ziggy)

Kennedy Williams was up first on a WFNM night at Hotel Ziggy. I primarily went to this specific WFNM to catch Night Talks and Beck Pete. I had no idea what to expect when Williams took to the stage. As with many musicians who are up first at WFNM, she did a solo set. It was just her, a multi-color sweater, and a guitar. 

Kennedy Williams at Hotel Ziggy

Song Spotlight: unpolished*' nobody knows (a night at Bar 10)

I've known about Bar 10 at the Corbin Bowl for a very long time now, but I've always considered it to be way too far away. I live in Glendale and Glendale to Tarzana is 18 miles. The farthest venue from Glendale that is on my rotation is Hotel Ziggy, which is 10 miles away. So that venue fits into my claim to various people that I hate traveling more than 10 miles to a venue. Heck, I only make it to the Sunset Strip once or twice a year, primarily because I hate the long drive. 

unpolished* at Bar 10

Notes from Vivace Show Alerts (Los Angeles): Jan 19th - Jan 25th

A Handful of Show Alerts 

Sunday, Jan 19th: Spare Parts for Broken Hearts at Alex's Bar. Doors at 2 p.m.
I covered the band back in 2022 for Buzzbands.

Cancelled. Monday, Jan 20th: Blu Jay and The Lovebombs at Harvard & Stone. Doors at 8 p.m.

Thursday, Jan 23rd: Tropa Magica at Alex's Bar. Doors at 8 p.m.
I covered the band back in 2022 for Buzzbands.

Friday, Jan 24th: Gottlieb at The Smell. Doors at 9 p.m.

The band was one of my favorite "new to me, but maybe not to you" bands of 2024.

Friday, Jan 24th: Night Talks at Permanent Records Roadhouse. Doors at 6 p.m.

You can read my NFV Show Spotlight of their song "Running on a Cloud" here.

Friday, Jan 24th: Nutt at The Redwood Bar. Doors at 8 p.m.
The band was one of my favorite "new to me, but maybe not to you" bands of 2024.

Saturday, Jan 25th: unpolished* at Bar 10. Doors at 7 p.m.

You can read my NFV Show Spotlight of their song "nobody knows" here.

Song Spotlight: Tashaki Miyaki's City (a night at Zebulon)

I've noticed that Tashaki Miyaki has a rather passionate following amount photographers who have shot the scene for a number of years. Though I am perhaps not as passionate as my other photographers, I do have a long history with the band. I saw the band way back in 2012 when they opened up for Family of the Year. In my notes from the night, the reason I went was for Family of the Year (I am a big Family of the Year fan), but also because I noticed a band called Tashaki Miyaki was playing and I found the band name intriguing. A couple years later, I saw the band at Make Music Pasadena. Looking through my records, it looks like the last time I saw them was at their Echo residency in 2017 when they played with L.A. Witch and Z Berg. That was a line-up. 

Tashaki Miyaki at Zebulon

Song Spotlight: LINNEA's Tough Luck (a night at The Fable)

I'll occasionally head out to The Fable to catch a Ryan Pollie hosted Tuesday night. Sometimes I go out to The Fable because I know a band that he booked such as Janelane. Other times I'll go there even though I don't know a single person or band on the bill. That was the case when I went out on a recent December night. First up was LINNEA (Linnea Delaney Johansen). It took about 5 seconds, let's say, to come to the conclusion that I made the right decision to head out on this particular Tuesday night.

LINNEA at The Fable

Song Spotlight: Lovecolor's Hearts on Fire (a night at Hotel Cafe)

Lovecolor came on through Los Angeles in support of their (at the time) soon to be released debut album "LOVECOLOR." The Hotel Cafe was the place to be to catch the set. The band played seven of the nine songs off the album as well as two of lead singer Vanessa Silberman's own previous releases.

Lovecolor at The Hotel Cafe

Notes from Vivace Show Alerts (Los Angeles): Jan 12th - Jan 18th

A Handful of Show Alerts 

Cancelled. Monday: Jan 13th: Hannah Hughes at Harvard & Stone. Doors at 8 p.m.
Hannah Hughes is also in the band Julez and the Rollerz. I covered their Is This Where The party Is? EP release party at Non Plus Ultra for US Rocker Music.

Cancelled. Tuesday: Jan 14th: Devon Ross at Zebulon. Doors at 8 p.m.

You can my review of one of her sets here.

Cancelled. Tuesday Jan 14th: Kat French at Hotel Ziggy. Doors at 7 p.m.
You can read my NFV Song Spotlight of "Casket" here.

Wednesday Jan 5th: Eugene Edwards at Harvard & Stone. Doors at 8 p.m.

You can read my review of a Western Edge Tribute night at Zebulon that I wrote for US Rocker Music here which included Eugene Edwards.

Saturday Jan 18th: Bruvvy at The Viper Room. Doors at 4:30 p.m.

One of my favorite "new to me, but maybe not to you" 2024 bands. You can see the full list here.

Saturday Jan 18th: Kills Birds at the Moroccan Lounge. Doors at 9:30 p.m.

You can read my NFV Song Spotlight of their song "Glisten" here.

Saturday Jan 18th: Mating Ritual at Gold-Diggers. Doors at 7 p.m.
If interested, you can read my review of their Songs for the Morning and Evening Times album release party at Zebulon for Buzzbands.

Postponed. Saturday Jan 18th: Tolliver and TwoLips at The Echo. Doors at 7 p.m.

Interestingly, I covered both bands for Buzzbands at Echo Park Rising across the years. You can read my brief mention of Tolliver as well as photos of both in my 2023 Echo Park Rising coverage. If you want to flashback to 2019, you can read the short quote that TwoLips provided me. 

Song Spotlight: Eleven Green's Fixed Tool (a night at Hotel Ziggy)

When random encounters happen, you've got to mention it. The setup is that I caught Eleven Green on the Tuesday night prior to Thanksgiving. The band was playing a WFNM night at Hotel Ziggy. Fast forward to Black Friday. I was at Best Buy picking up an external hard drive to store all the photos and videos I take of the Los Angeles music scene. After being handed the external hard drive, I did a beeline towards the exit. Walking right past me was the lead singer, Nare Nikoyan. I didn't know her name at the time of this random encounter so I yell out, "Eleven Green." She turns and I told her that I saw her Wednesday night. She looked slightly confused, perhaps because I got the days messed up. I saw the band on Tuesday night. My excuse is that I went to Hotel Ziggy on both Tuesday and Wednesday night. I added, "Hotel Ziggy. I was one of the photographers." 

Eleven Green at Hotel Ziggy

Song Spotlight: Dove Armitage's Glass In Me (a night at the Fonda Theatre)

I've seen Dove Armitage (Quincy Larsen) twice this year. Interestingly enough, she was opening on nights that I was covering for US Rocker Music. In October, she was opening up for Sunflower Bean at Zebulon. In December, she was playing The Fonda Theatre in support for Zaho de Sagazan. To clarify, the year 2024 is not the first time I've come across Dove Armitage or, for that matter, Larsen. 

Dove Armitage at The Fonda Theatre

Song Spotlight: Beck Pete's Scared of Everything (a night at Hotel Ziggy)

I first came across Beck Pete at El Cid in 2019. It wasn't a full set. El Cid double booked the day and so the bands playing in the afternoon were all restricted to 20 minutes or less. In fact, the last band of the night played maybe less than 10 minutes. 

Beck Pete at Hotel Ziggy

Night Talks' Running On A Cloud (a night at Hotel Ziggy)

Like many a band, my first introduction to Night Talks happened at a venue now since closed called the Bootleg Theater. It was July 2016. I then caught the band a month later at Chinatown Summer Nights. That was a fun weekend of music. Echo Park Rising and Chinatown Summer Nights were both on that same weekend so I spent Friday night at Echo Park Rising, Saturday night at Chinatown Summer Nights, and Sunday night back at Echo Park Rising. 

Night Talks at Hotel Ziggy