Summer Darling, Birds and Batteries, Baron Von Luxxury
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1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Out of Town
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123 Astronaut E S Onizuka St., No. 301
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Chinatown/ Elysian Park
111 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Music Venues
Region: Out of Town
What's the beginning of a new year without a little lament for where the previous one went wrong? The Origami Vinyl–released LP from Los Angeles' Summer Darling was inspired by "alcoholism, divorce, interstate moves and a number of family deaths," plus frontman Ben Heywood's "dissolving faith and darkening worldview" (all of this from the band's official bio). Though the singer was raised by pastors in Northern California, his musical pedigree owes to the crushing bleakness of Midwesterners like Conor Oberst and his old post-hardcore act Desaparecidos, or really anyone on the original Saddle Creek roster. With angular guitars, pounding drums and an ever-shifting meter, the antithetically named outfit creates a thrilling (if not harrowing) atmosphere in person. The Bay Area's Birds and Batteries, meanwhile, cast a broad stylistic net that encompasses Randy Newman–like piano pop, bluesy psychedelic Americana and spooky synthesizer-driven elegies. —Chris Martins
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