Hometown runs at the end of a year are less about the setlist than about who turns up, and for a band that formed behind the counter of a record store in this city the answer is most of a scene. The music is sixties-derived and unmistakably Californian — reverb, jangle, a melancholy that sits underneath rather than on top. A decade in, the deeper catalog is where the interesting material lives and second nights are where they play it. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall on a Sunday in December, wood floors, balcony above, the last stretch of the year. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56. Sunday closing nights of a two-night hometown stand draw the people who have been going since the beginning, and it shows in the room.
Hometown runs at the end of a year are less about the setlist than about who turns up, and for a band that formed behind the counter of a record store in this city the answer is most of a scene. The music is sixties-derived and unmistakably Californian — reverb, jangle, a melancholy that sits underneath rather than on top. A decade in, the deeper catalog is where the interesting material lives and second nights are where they play it. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall on a Sunday in December, wood floors, balcony above, the last stretch of the year. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56. Sunday closing nights of a two-night hometown stand draw the people who have been going since the beginning, and it shows in the room.
Hometown runs at the end of a year are less about the setlist than about who turns up, and for a band that formed behind the counter of a record store in this city the answer is most of a scene. The music is sixties-derived and unmistakably Californian — reverb, jangle, a melancholy that sits underneath rather than on top. A decade in, the deeper catalog is where the interesting material lives and second nights are where they play it. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall on a Sunday in December, wood floors, balcony above, the last stretch of the year. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56. Sunday closing nights of a two-night hometown stand draw the people who have been going since the beginning, and it shows in the room.