Some bands make music that sounds like remembering a drive you took once with someone who doesn't call anymore. Hovvdy is two guys from Austin who have been quietly building a catalog of songs that feel like that — warm, unhurried, the kind of slowcore-adjacent indie rock that rewards the people who find it with the private conviction that this band belongs to them.
The Quartyard show puts Hovvdy in one of San Diego's most distinctive outdoor spaces — a repurposed shipping-container venue in East Village with open sky overhead and the kind of loose energy that lets a band like this breathe. Their latest work sits somewhere between Bon Iver's restraint and Yo La Tengo's patience, and live it translates into something gentler and more present than a recording can hold.
You know someone who needs to hear this band. You've probably already thought of their name while reading this. Thursday evening, 6:30 PM. Quartyard, 1102 Market St, San Diego. 21+.
Some bands make music that sounds like remembering a drive you took once with someone who doesn't call anymore. Hovvdy is two guys from Austin who have been quietly building a catalog of songs that feel like that — warm, unhurried, the kind of slowcore-adjacent indie rock that rewards the people who find it with the private conviction that this band belongs to them.
The Quartyard show puts Hovvdy in one of San Diego's most distinctive outdoor spaces — a repurposed shipping-container venue in East Village with open sky overhead and the kind of loose energy that lets a band like this breathe. Their latest work sits somewhere between Bon Iver's restraint and Yo La Tengo's patience, and live it translates into something gentler and more present than a recording can hold.
You know someone who needs to hear this band. You've probably already thought of their name while reading this. Thursday evening, 6:30 PM. Quartyard, 1102 Market St, San Diego. 21+.
Some bands make music that sounds like remembering a drive you took once with someone who doesn't call anymore. Hovvdy is two guys from Austin who have been quietly building a catalog of songs that feel like that — warm, unhurried, the kind of slowcore-adjacent indie rock that rewards the people who find it with the private conviction that this band belongs to them.
The Quartyard show puts Hovvdy in one of San Diego's most distinctive outdoor spaces — a repurposed shipping-container venue in East Village with open sky overhead and the kind of loose energy that lets a band like this breathe. Their latest work sits somewhere between Bon Iver's restraint and Yo La Tengo's patience, and live it translates into something gentler and more present than a recording can hold.
You know someone who needs to hear this band. You've probably already thought of their name while reading this. Thursday evening, 6:30 PM. Quartyard, 1102 Market St, San Diego. 21+.