Sun, Dec 6
Ozomatli
The band that plays your city's actual soundtrack is rarely the one on the billboard. Ozomatli formed out of a Los Angeles labour dispute in the mid-nineties and have spent thirty years refusing to be filed — Latin funk, hip-hop, cumbia, ska, a horn section that treats the stage as a starting position rather than a destination. They are known for ending shows by walking the drum line out into the crowd and off the premises entirely.
Seeing them two and a half hours from the city they belong to is the interesting part. A band whose whole language is urban Los Angeles, playing a cattle-town roadhouse in the high desert, to a room that will be half Angelenos who drove and half locals who were always coming anyway — that mix is the entire appeal, and it is the kind of crossing that does not happen at a festival.
Nine at night, Pioneertown, doors at eight. Thirty years in and the drum line still ends up outside.
The band that plays your city's actual soundtrack is rarely the one on the billboard. Ozomatli formed out of a Los Angeles labour dispute in the mid-nineties and have spent thirty years refusing to be filed — Latin funk, hip-hop, cumbia, ska, a horn section that treats the stage as a starting position rather than a destination. They are known for ending shows by walking the drum line out into the crowd and off the premises entirely.
Seeing them two and a half hours from the city they belong to is the interesting part. A band whose whole language is urban Los Angeles, playing a cattle-town roadhouse in the high desert, to a room that will be half Angelenos who drove and half locals who were always coming anyway — that mix is the entire appeal, and it is the kind of crossing that does not happen at a festival.
Nine at night, Pioneertown, doors at eight. Thirty years in and the drum line still ends up outside.
Seeing them two and a half hours from the city they belong to is the interesting part. A band whose whole language is urban Los Angeles, playing a cattle-town roadhouse in the high desert, to a room that will be half Angelenos who drove and half locals who were always coming anyway — that mix is the entire appeal, and it is the kind of crossing that does not happen at a festival.
Nine at night, Pioneertown, doors at eight. Thirty years in and the drum line still ends up outside.
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The band that plays your city's actual soundtrack is rarely the one on the billboard. Ozomatli formed out of a Los Angeles labour dispute in the mid-nineties and have spent thirty years refusing to be filed — Latin funk, hip-hop, cumbia, ska, a horn section that treats the stage as a starting position rather than a destination. They are known for ending shows by walking the drum line out into the crowd and off the premises entirely.
Seeing them two and a half hours from the city they belong to is the interesting part. A band whose whole language is urban Los Angeles, playing a cattle-town roadhouse in the high desert, to a room that will be half Angelenos who drove and half locals who were always coming anyway — that mix is the entire appeal, and it is the kind of crossing that does not happen at a festival.
Nine at night, Pioneertown, doors at eight. Thirty years in and the drum line still ends up outside.
Seeing them two and a half hours from the city they belong to is the interesting part. A band whose whole language is urban Los Angeles, playing a cattle-town roadhouse in the high desert, to a room that will be half Angelenos who drove and half locals who were always coming anyway — that mix is the entire appeal, and it is the kind of crossing that does not happen at a festival.
Nine at night, Pioneertown, doors at eight. Thirty years in and the drum line still ends up outside.
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