The same band two hours apart on the same tour draws two entirely different crowds, and the coastal date is where the Ventura County kids who cannot make the desert or the eastside finally get their turn. This is a Los Angeles group that formed in middle school and stayed together, with a following that is young, heavily Latino, and unusually devoted for a band this size. The music drifted from bedroom psych into something funkier without losing the haze that made people attach to it. Live the rhythm section is the surprise. A flat-floor room in Ventura on a Thursday, a few hundred people. Music at 8:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Bands who grew up alongside their audience make rooms where nobody feels like a customer.
The same band two hours apart on the same tour draws two entirely different crowds, and the coastal date is where the Ventura County kids who cannot make the desert or the eastside finally get their turn. This is a Los Angeles group that formed in middle school and stayed together, with a following that is young, heavily Latino, and unusually devoted for a band this size. The music drifted from bedroom psych into something funkier without losing the haze that made people attach to it. Live the rhythm section is the surprise. A flat-floor room in Ventura on a Thursday, a few hundred people. Music at 8:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Bands who grew up alongside their audience make rooms where nobody feels like a customer.
The same band two hours apart on the same tour draws two entirely different crowds, and the coastal date is where the Ventura County kids who cannot make the desert or the eastside finally get their turn. This is a Los Angeles group that formed in middle school and stayed together, with a following that is young, heavily Latino, and unusually devoted for a band this size. The music drifted from bedroom psych into something funkier without losing the haze that made people attach to it. Live the rhythm section is the surprise. A flat-floor room in Ventura on a Thursday, a few hundred people. Music at 8:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Bands who grew up alongside their audience make rooms where nobody feels like a customer.