Mini Trees, Illuminati Hotties, Baths

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Three Los Angeles projects on one bill in the desert reads like a coincidence and is closer to a family reunion — these are people who have played on each other's records, share producers, and came up through the same small rooms in the eastside. Illuminati Hotties makes the loudest and funniest music of the three; Baths has been making meticulous electronic pop since the blog era and has a following that treats those records as private property; Mini Trees writes the quiet ones. Together it is a fair snapshot of what one corner of this city actually sounds like right now. Watching that travel two hours into the high desert and land in a wooden saloon is the specific pleasure on offer. Music at 8:30 PM in Pioneertown. Bills like this are how a scene shows a town what it has been building, and how the people in it find out who else drove out.