A band that formed in middle school in Los Angeles and stayed together through all of it has an advantage nobody can buy — the interplay is instinctive, and the audience that grew up alongside them treats the records as a shared diary. The sound moved from bedroom psych toward something funkier and more precise without ever losing the haze. Their following is heavily Latino, heavily local, and unusually young, which makes the rooms feel different from a standard indie show; people sing along to instrumental sections. Out in the high desert on a Wednesday, two hours from the neighborhoods most of that crowd comes from, the trip becomes part of the event. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Bands who came up with their audience rather than in front of it produce rooms where everyone seems to already know each other.
A band that formed in middle school in Los Angeles and stayed together through all of it has an advantage nobody can buy — the interplay is instinctive, and the audience that grew up alongside them treats the records as a shared diary. The sound moved from bedroom psych toward something funkier and more precise without ever losing the haze. Their following is heavily Latino, heavily local, and unusually young, which makes the rooms feel different from a standard indie show; people sing along to instrumental sections. Out in the high desert on a Wednesday, two hours from the neighborhoods most of that crowd comes from, the trip becomes part of the event. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Bands who came up with their audience rather than in front of it produce rooms where everyone seems to already know each other.
A band that formed in middle school in Los Angeles and stayed together through all of it has an advantage nobody can buy — the interplay is instinctive, and the audience that grew up alongside them treats the records as a shared diary. The sound moved from bedroom psych toward something funkier and more precise without ever losing the haze. Their following is heavily Latino, heavily local, and unusually young, which makes the rooms feel different from a standard indie show; people sing along to instrumental sections. Out in the high desert on a Wednesday, two hours from the neighborhoods most of that crowd comes from, the trip becomes part of the event. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Bands who came up with their audience rather than in front of it produce rooms where everyone seems to already know each other.