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.

Chet Happens is a community of musicians that got its start in the practice halls of Pasadena City College. The group is comprised of Drums, Bass, Keys, Trumpet, Sax, and Guitar/Vox. They write original arrangements of popular classics from The Great American Songbook (Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, and Miles Davis).

Christian Brox Bhogwani – Guitar/vox
Sevan Kendir -Bass
Max Dearth – Trumpet
Soichiro Tanabe – Drums
Josh Bernardo -Sax
Jacob Song – Keyboard

Instagram: @chethappensmusic

Growing up in Eaglerock through the 80’s , Eddie & Joel Domantay established a musical scene from a back house that their parents built in order to separate the loudness and chaos of having musicians develop in the household. This Jam house became popular amongst the local musicians and jams became a regular scene at the Domantay house. Popular Eaglerock local bands such as ATLAS, Brothers Under The Skin, & Bleeding Lizards developed their craft at this pad.

Eddie & Joel continued to follow their musical passions well beyond the 80s and developed a funky jazzy blues band with guitarist Patrick Dore, vocalist Grace Marquez, and keyboardist Curtis Roush. Ardent fans of Haitus Kayote, Rihanna, Grateful Dead, Brand New Heavies, Toto, & Steely Dan………EYE-5 celebrates and creates music by mixing up their beloved influences into a bluesy, funky, jazzy, soulful boufage of grooves. Catch them live and experience for yourselves the sonic dish EYE-5 can cook up!

Rhythm Real is the brainchild of Los Angeles drummer, bandleader, and educator Dean Mucetti. In order to find a way for a couple of his former music students from an underserved area to gain playing experience past high school, Dean formed the band in August of 2015 as a type of workshop ensemble. Since then, the band has been bringing together the talents of these younger players with a few more experienced musicians in order to facilitate a collaborative meeting of diverse musical, cultural, and generational backgrounds. This has resulted in the band playing some of L.A.’s most coveted jazz clubs such as The Baked Potato in Studio City and the Blue Whale in Little Tokyo.

The music itself is a tapestry type of sound where the James Brown funk of Clyde Stubblefield, Bootsy Collins, and Jimmy Nolen combines with jazz standards by the likes of Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and John Coltrane. This setting facilitates a uniquely improvised performance that is never quite the same twice, and these perhaps thought to be disparate sounds collide to reveal a common sonic thread. In addition, Dean Mucetti and Rhythm Real also happens to feature a rotating frontline of some of Los Angeles’ finest improvisers. Recently, the band has featured saxophonists Gavin Templeton and Tom Wilson along with vocalist/emcees Osmith and Ventage in addition to whoever else may show up to throw down, such as Stevie Wonder/Janet Jackson guitarist Errol Cooney. The short of it: Dean Mucetti and Rhythm Real play funky-off the cuff improv with a tinge of melodic madness, a bevy of harmonic bliss, and an onslaught of danceable rhythm.

Química Humana is a 1st-gen Latin-Alt band that celebrates cultural diversity one dance floor at a time. This 8-piece LA outfit has performed on Sofar Sounds following a performance opening up for Ozomatli and was recently featured at Hunnypot. Kansas-born and Colombian-bred, this music is what NPR Music describes as “pack[ing] a great big joyful sound

The stretch of Pacific Coast Highway from Malibu to Santa Monica embodies the great dualism of Southern California. Warm breezes through cracked car windows, the soft sound of waves crashing and receding into the Pacific, and the silhouette of Los Angeles are beautiful in a timeless, almost dreamlike sort of way. However, those who haven’t stuck around long enough often fail to notice the effects of erosion; buildings and signs that line the coast are faded and rusty from the salt air, evoking feelings of loneliness and emptiness. Primaveras’ debut LP, Echoes in the Well of Being, also embodies this dualism. Channeling various sonic aspects of the past to create something unmistakably of the present, songwriter/brainchild James Clifford creates psych-pop songs that are equally bright and sunny as they are full of longing and introspection. For example, ‘Can’t Undo My Love’ begins like a lazy diary entry written on a beach towel before reaching euphoric heights by way of a falsetto-layered hook. Conversely, the groove of ‘Better Off’ struts like a half-drunken walk out of a noisy dive bar, only to confront one’s feelings in the night air behind a backdrop of moving cars and neon lights.

Side B kicks off with the motor city riffage of ‘In the Lilacs,’ which showcases Clifford’s ability to tastefully weave various musical elements into something coherent and fluid. In fact, the record at times can feel like a journey through the evolution of pop music from the second half of the 20th century—60’s pop-inspired melodies are complemented by 70’s guitar licks and early 80’s synth lines, which makes for a listening experience that is somewhere between Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii and Chic’s second album. Side B’s penultimate track, ‘Send Me an Angel,’ is an acoustic and vulnerable palette cleanser before the rock ‘n roll excess of ‘Before You Say Goodbye,’ which ends like the final parade in Animal House—joy and bombast riddled with bits of truth about the human condition. Whether one takes the Coast Highway out of the city or into it, Primaveras’ debut record is the perfect soundtrack for a blissful escape.

Growing up in a musical family in California, Clifford began playing guitar in early adolescence and played in garage bands throughout high school. Foregoing a formal musical education, he is a largely self-taught multi-instrumentalist and producer. However, his passion for playing and writing stems from a much deeper passion for music in general. It is not uncommon for him to scour music stores for vintage guitars and synths or stay up all night listening to records. Regarding his musical vision, he seeks to employ a sense of old-school musicality while maintaining a forward-thinking and singular artistic voice; he also considers Bowie, Prince, the Clash, Funkadelic, Chic, Todd Rundgren, Roxy Music, Steely Dan, The Beach Boys, and the Beatles as some of his greatest inspirations.