Kiev At The Bootleg Theater, Monday August 5th 2013
their compositions were complex, intellectual, and psychedelic going into some trippy and endless jams
Moses Sumney At The Bootleg Theater, Monday June 3rd 2013
Finalist for the UCLA Jazz Reggae Festival in 2012, he looked comfortable while performing but couldn’t hide his anxiety between the songs, … ‘I have been doing this for two years and it doesn’t stop being scary’ he said at one point while he had visibly already made a huge impression on the crowd
KING At The Bootleg Theater, Monday June 3rd 2013
Their voices were complementing themselves extremely well, their layered and complex harmonies were very precise, almost flexible in the way they were done, and the music was heartwarming, fluid and loose with some jazzy flavors. I have totally distanced myself from the current R&B trend
Kitten At The Bootleg Theater, Saturday November 24th 2012
Move over Gwen, this teen girl was a ball of fire! She was a lioness shaking her long mane and roaring in the mic over the band’s energetic electro-pop songs, she was jumping, shaking her body as if she had been possessed by the ghost of rock’ n’ roll, dancing, bouncing and doing even more dangerous acrobatics from one corner of the stage to the other.
The Mynabirds At The Bootleg Theater, Wednesday November 14th 2012
The set was heavy on their latest effort, the politically charged ‘Generals’, whose title song is a bluesy call for revolt with lyrics like ‘I need a political job/In a blue collar town/So I can pay my rent/When the music is on/I get my best blood drawn/But I haven’t made a dollar yet’
Goldenboy At The Bootleg Theater, Wednesday November 14th 2012, Reviewed
There were clashing guitars dueling with each other, some solo turning into fast or soothing tumults, songs fast recovering from dark synth, other flirting between rock numbers and angst-y ballads
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'The Chanteuse and the Devil’s Muse’ by David J
Former Bauhaus and Love and Rockets bassist David J has a new take on the famous murder mystery
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Manhattan Murder Mystery at the Bootleg on Monday April 18th, 2011
Matthew Teardrop was definitely all gone
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Seasick Steve at the Bootleg theater on Friday, April 7th, 2011
SeaSick Steve is a happy man