December 2019
Poolside
Poolside is an American "Daytime Disco" group from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2010. The band currently consists of Jeff Paradise, Vito Roccoforte (The Rapture), Mattie Safer (The Rapture), Brijean Murphy (Toro y Moi) and Casey Butler (Pharaohs). They always put on a groovy set, get ready to dance.
Find out more »January 2020
Michael Kiwanuka
Michael Samuel Kiwanuka (born 3 May 1987) is a British singer-songwriter and record producer who is signed with Polydor Records. His 2012 debut album Home Again went gold in the United Kingdom and his second album, Love & Hate, debuted in 2016 at number one. He has been nominated for numerous honors, including the Brit Awards, MTV Europe Music Awards, Mercury Prize, BBC Music Awards. In January 2012, he won the BBC's Sound of 2012.
Find out more »Saint Motel
Saint Motel is an American indie pop band from Los Angeles, whose music has been described as everything from "dream pop" to "indie prog." The band consists of A. J. Jackson (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Aaron Sharp (lead guitar), Dak Lerdamornpong (bass), and Greg Erwin (drums) with their radio hit, "My Type."
Find out more »King Princess
Mikaela Mullaney Straus, known by her stage name King Princess, is an American singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer from Brooklyn, New York. She is signed to Mark Ronson's label Zelig Records, an imprint of Columbia Records. King Princess is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. The product of a musical family, she spent much of her childhood tinkering on the vintage Neve board in her father's Brooklyn studio, learning guitar and piano along the way. Her 2018 debut single, an ode to untold queer histories titled…
Find out more »February 2020
Magic Giant w/ American Authors
Magic Giant San Diego Magic Giant (often stylized as MAGIC GIANT) is an American indie folk band formed in Los Angeles, California in early 2014. The group consists of Austin Bisnow (lead vocals, cello, synthesizer, percussion), Zambricki Li (viola, fiddle, banjo, harmonica, cello, mandolin, octave mandolin, dobro, lap steel, backing vocals) and Zang (acoustic guitar, cello, bass, percussion, backing vocals). The band is best known for its single "Set On Fire" that charted top 30 in Billboard's Alternative chart, and…
Find out more »Electric Feels: Indie Rock + Indie Dance Party
Wanna groove to your all-time favorite indie bands? Come boogie to MGMT, Tame Impala, Glass Animals, The Strokes, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, and many more at the Observatory North Park Saturday, February 15th at the Electric Feels: Indie Rock + Indie Dance Party! Electric Feels is an experiential party from Los Angeles that plays a ridiculously fun blend of Indie Rock + Indie Dance music. Come experience the unique, inclusive and electric event with awesome DJs, live elements, special guests…
Find out more »August 2021
Olivia O’Brien
Olivia O'Brien Olivia O'Brien is an American singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in 2016 after collaborating with Gnash on the single "I Hate U, I Love U", where she wrote and featured on the single, it also peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States and number one in Australia, resulting in a recording contract with Island Records. Her debut studio album, Was It Even Real?, was released in April 2019. Her single "Josslyn" apart of her EP, The Results of My Poor…
Find out more »September 2021
Future Islands
Future Islands Future Islands are a band whose brilliance has always been hiding in plain sight. One viral moment might have catapulted them to worldwide recognition, but they were just doing what they always did - pouring their heart and soul into every moment, and channeling arts great power to spread love and hope. It was, quite simply, who they are. Yet success is a fickle beast. Burn out, self-doubt, and wrestling with expectations; Future Islands have been through them…
Find out more »Gogol Bordello
Gogol Bordello Gogol Bordello is an American punk rock band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 by musicians from all over the world and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring. Much of the band's sound is inspired by gypsy music mixed with punk and dub, incorporating accordion and violin (and on some albums, saxophone). The band has appeared in several popular films, most notably Everything Is Illuminated (2005) in which lead singer Eugene Hütz co-starred with Elijah Wood in a dramedy/adventure story about the Nazi purges in Ukraine. The group appears playing a brass band in a set that included…
Find out more »Gary Numan
Gary Anthony James Webb, better known as Gary Numan, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He entered the music industry as the frontman of the new wave band Tubeway Army. Catch him at Observatory North Park on September 18th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im3JzxlatUs
Find out more »Cold War Kids
Cold War Kids is an American indie rock band from Long Beach, California. Band members are Nathan Willett (vocals, piano, guitar), Matt Maust (bass guitar), David Quon (guitar, backing vocals), Matthew Schwartz (keyboards, backing vocals, guitar, percussion), and Joe Plummer (drums, percussion). Catch them at Observatory North Park on September 24th, 2021.
Find out more »October 2021
Japanese Breakfast
From the moment she began writing her new album, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner knew that she wanted to call it Jubilee. After all, a jubilee is a celebration of the passage of time—a festival to usher in the hope of a new era in brilliant technicolor. Zauner’s first two albums garnered acclaim for the way they grappled with anguish; Psychopomp was written as her mother underwent cancer treatment, while Soft Sounds From Another Planet took the grief she held from…
Find out more »Beach Goons
Hailing from San Diego’s Logan Heights neighborhood, Beach Goons was the brainchild of Pablo Cervantez, the band’s vocalist, guitarist, and sole constant member. Beach Goons started innocently enough with Cervantez and a couple friends picking up instruments and playing out, hitting up any place that would have them, from their middle school to Logan Heights’ library. As the band grew, their sound evolved with them. Their early singles showed a brash, garage-indebted take on punk, but by the time of…
Find out more »Kevin Morby and Hamilton Leithauser
Kevin Robert Morby (born April 2, 1988) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He has released five studio albums: Harlem River (2013), Still Life (2014), Singing Saw (2016), City Music (2017), and Oh My God (2019). During live performances, Morby is accompanied by his backing band consisting of Meg Duffy on guitar, Cyrus Gengras on bass, and Nick Kinsey on drums. Hamilton Leithauser, 39, was born and raised in D.C., but he moved to New York for college…
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