Allensworth is a Southern California quintet that fuses rock and soul into a melting pot of true life anthemic stories. The authentic sound derives from the bands diverse cultural backgrounds and surroundings. Comprised of musicians from Northern and Southern California, Allensworth unites their influences from the Bay area to LA.
Instagram: @allensworthmusic
VV Friendly & Easy Joe is the joint creative project of Steve Ryu and Rocco Rivetti. With the recent addition of Trapper Piatt on drums, the project has avalanched from a series of bedroom tapes into its current, fuller sound. The project embodies a creative urgency due to the fact that Ryu has to return to his native country of South Korea to enlist in mandatory military service for the next two years in mid-October, making this show the band’s final performance in its current form.
Armand Paul is an experimental folk singer from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. As a songwriter, he draws influence from ancient mystics as much as from his
personal experiences and observations; the result is by turns earnest verging on innocent as often as austere and haunting. Much of Armand’s music is a meditation on the subtle strength and the tension that simmers beneath quiet moments, encouraging self-reflection.
His recent album Fault Lines & Other Songs (released in March of 2018, available on cassette and online) explores the importance of honoring the ephemeral, both mourning and celebrating the transience of life and nature.
Instagram: @armandpaul
At the end of 2013, Cynthia took a long awaited step in her music career when she moved from quiet Northern California to the city of Los Angeles. In those years, she developed a connection with fellow musicians and appreciators as a performer all across the Los Angeles region and beyond-sharing her unique “vintage vibe” powerful vocals and steady folk rock rhythms in clubs, homes and as a street performer. In 2015, Cynthia started “Music Emerging”-a project of inspiring artist interviews, articles and a successful concert series. Music Emerging is growing to include a portal of resources and emotional support for artists. Cynthia has been published as a guest writer on the music sites Music Clout and Music Industry How To, and she has received honorable mentions for her music in the Songdoor International Songwriting Competition and the American Songwriter Magazine Lyric Contest. Cynthia is a 2017 recipient of a Hemera Foundation Fellowship Award for her music. Her new album, “The Treehouse Trio Sessions” was released in June of 2018 with a month tour in the Northwest and Southwestern United States.
Kawalea Polynesian Dance, founded in 1988, under the direction of Kathleen Jaime “Kawalea” Jones, has shared its passion for the Polynesian culture, dance and music with many students and families over the years. From learning dances representative of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti, Samoa and New Zealand to fire knife dancing and Tahitian drumming, our members develop a deep-felt connection and passion for Polynesian culture.
Over the years, Kawalea has performed for many events, including The City of Los Angeles Lotus Festival, Parks and Recreation Ho’olauleas, The LA Chinatown Firecracker Festival, Make-A-Wish Foundation, School Events and private functions.
Under the Creative Direction of Cathy Maile Perez and Club Management of Kathleen M Jones, Kawalea continues to share its passion for Polynesian Dance and music with its members and the surrounding communities. From our Kawalea Ohana to yours, we wish you a fond ALOHA!
GLIFOS is Los Angeles meets Inland Empire music project based in Pomona, CA. GLIFOS is influenced by heavy afro-funk, Afrobeat, LatinSoul, and a blend of funkdafied Black Jazz, from the 1970’s. GLIFOS’ high energy and political flavors will take you back to an era, where not by choice but for the sake of prosecution, needed to remain underground. After afrobeat started to surface in Los Angeles, GLIFOS went with Vodou (voodoo) funk as a genre. Since Vodou is a ritualistic faith system, which involves ceremonies that consist of singing, drumming community and dancing, GLIFOS felt the project connected the same musically, spiritually, and brotherly. The result brought the audience a unique style of funk fairly new in the L.A music scene and is guaranteed to move your feet.
BEBOLUZ- literally means:
“drinking light.” A more accurate interpretation would be “Receiving Light”,this Rock en Español band delves into everything from Rock,Lounge,Jazz Afrobeat and Cumbia.From New York to Mexico City,they are now based in Los Angeles.
Hard to classified but easy to listen, BEBOLUZ has been called hybrid, mestizo, Latin fusion, and even música bastarda (bastard music!). All we know is that music is our momma…peace!
Ricardo Hernandez : Vocals Guitar (México)
Julio Montero : Synthesizer and Sax( Ecuador)
Josel Cruz : Bass Vocals ( Puerto Rico)
Mitchell Lestner: Drums (USA)
Clinton and the Love Me Nauts are a soul swingin’, roots rockin’ band, baptized in swamp boogie. Come ready to sing, dance, and get your ya-yas out.
Dead Wren is Americana, blues, country, rock, and roots music from the mind of Andrew Christian Haun. Born and raised in Arizona and residing in Los Angeles, Andrew Haun is a self-taught singer, songwriter, harmonica player. His songs range from lighthearted love songs to epic murder ballads, and sonically span from soft acoustic to heavy electric.
Some songs have hooks. Jackass songs have lassos… Compelling riffs that rope you in & won’t let you go. With genuine “punk-ranchero” styled originals, combined with their infectious “cowpunk” sneer at bubblegum-pop-radio covers, this outfit is one of the most distinctive out there.
Explosive, passionate, & raw, their music is honest (& honestly rocks) in the truest sense. Rough and rootsy, this raucous bunch fleshes out honky-tonk rhythms with an edgy tongue-in-cheek sensibility.
It’s an entertaining and wildly unorthodox take on modern music, and Jackass’s live shows exemplify both the bizarre paths that so-called “popular music” has taken through the decades, as well as the capabilities of its well-honed musicians. Having shared the stage with legendary artists like the late punk-rock poet laureate Joe Strummer (R.I.P.), George Jones, Bad Religion, X, The Reverend Horton Heat, Throw Rag, The Blasters, Los Lobos, Hank Williams III, Manic Hispanic, Exene & The Original Sinners, Flogging Molly, The Supersuckers and Nashville Pussy, the boys in Jackass are making waves in the new music world, wherever and whenever they’re playing.
With founding-member of Bad Religion Peter Finestone joining the group, the Jackass sound has evolved into an explosive and decadent version of “post-everything” American music. Finestone’s high-energy percussion is enhanced by Toby Emery ‘s undisciplined vocal approach and acoustic rhythms, as well as Billy McGraw’s commanding electric guitar. And who knows rounds out the driving rhythm section.
Overall, this is a dynamic and boisterous live show, an intoxicating mix of country-western nostalgia with the power of the early west-coast punk movement.
So, you are now officially invited to one of the funnest honky-tonk shows that modern rock has ever seen. Bred from the scattered oilfields of the Southern California coastline, Jackass slings hard licks ranging from the down-home rebelliousness of American rock ‘n’ roll and C&W to classic punk, with a couple of ass-thumpin’, teeth-grindin’ dips into mainstream top-forty to boot.
Learn ‘yerselves a useful lesson in modern thrash-based punk-ranchero, music fans: Jackass is like Madonna on a gallon of moonshine, Johnny Cash on crack, and the Backstreet Boys with beat-up black eyes! Musically speaking, Jackass fires a shotgun-blast at modern popular-culture, and it’s a shot that’s right on target.