So Monday night @ the Viper Room totally rocked it, props to Indie 103.1 for picking a brutally decent lineup.
(Golden Animals, The Growlers, My Pet Saddle)
Golden Animals opened.
They said they weren't used to the city lights yet and even though I've lived here for six months now, I know how they feel. It's really overwhelming to feel so tiny standing in a city with a sky that stays orange trapping in the lights that never go off. It used to terrify me, I think, the fact that I was virtually nothing in a city that already has everything. But shows like this and bands like Golden Animals make me realize that there is so much beauty in the tinyness.
If we can all stand next to each other, each one of us small and intimidated and entirely clueless, then through that togetherness we become something so much bigger. Music is such a fantastic way to highlight the significance found in being somewhat insignificant, and the bands just got it so so right.
Love, love, love is everywhere and I am right in the center of it all.
Anyway, everybody should check out Golden Animals. They sounds like what it would feel like to be driving through the desert at night time with the windows down and the radio quiet, and then pulling over to have sweaty, dirty sex on a kaftan your grandmother knit a million years ago, listening to another heart beating almost as loudly as your own.
My camera wasn't cooperating during their set, but here they are loading their shit into their badass van and being totally friendly with all the drunkasses outside.
The Growlers followed. So different that anything I've ever been into before, but the greatest thing about LA music is that it really doesn't matter. You can throw away any standards or preferences you've ever had, and going to concerts becomes so entirely liberating. Anywho, The Growlers had a yummy lead singer with a real bluesy/soulful/twangy sort of voice, not to mention the sickest dance moves I have ever, ever seen. Killer suspenders (Alaska Logger) + 2 free CDs = beauty beauty beauty.
My Pet Saddle closed and they were super fun. I love the girl on tambourine and vocals and the bassist who seriously never stopped smiling. The best part of going to shows here is literally being able to feel how stoked that musicians are to be playing for you. To be a part of some crazy LA scene and just knowing that everybody is watching them united by the same exact thing. I think that's fucking beautiful. Check them out kids.
All in all it was a fantastic show. Crowd was great and booze was cheap, music was brilliant and my best friends where by my side.
Life is beauty full.
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