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Hailing from the East Coast, the Los Angeles-based Michael Collins (ringleader of the band Drugdealer) began making music after leaving art school to ride trains across the United States. The band’s most recent album, Raw Honey, finds Collins reducing, reusing, and recycling the traditional fabrics and threads of pop music, and weaving them into something both contemporary, reverential, and timeless. They'll be performing at the Lodge Room on Thursday, August 5th. Photo courtesy of shows.lodgeroomhlp.com  

Bully is the solo project of guitarist and singer Alicia Bognanno, and they will be performing at The Lodge Room on September 11th with Lightning Bug. The American rock band formed in 2013 in Nashville. They signed to Columbia Records label Startime International and released their first album Feels Like in 2015, then moved to Sub Pop to release Losing in 2017. Their third full-length album SUGAREGG was released in 2020 via SubPop Records. Photo courtesy of shows.lodgeroomhlp.com  

Nation of Language is an American indie pop band formed in Brooklyn in 2016. Their debut album, Introduction, Please, was self-released in 2020 to high praise from the likes of NME, FADER, Stereogum, and Pitchfork. Photo courtesy of Nation of Language

Lodge Room presents Wavves featuring Harmless and Cuffed Up, live at the Lodge Room on Thursday, November 18th. Their latest album Hideaway was released earlier this year via Fat Possum Records. Photo courtesy of lodgeroomhlp.com

Lodge Room presents DIIV live on New Years Eve. DIIV is the project of singer/songwriter/guitarist Zachary Cole Smith, who creates music that combines shoegaze bliss with grunge catharsis. Their latest album Deceiver was released via Captured Tracks in 2019. Photo courtesy of lodgeroomhlp.com

KCRW favorite Mauri Tapia (Los Retros) hails from Oxnard, California where he began crafting his sweet throwback sounds as a high-school student. He'll bring his multi-instrumental prowess to the stage of beloved Highland Park venue The Lodge Room on Valentine's Day 2022. Swoon! Photo credit: Ross Harris

Back by popular demand after a sold out show, KCRW favorite Mauri Tapia (Los Retros) returns for a second Valentine's Day performance on February 15th. Originally from Oxnard, California, Tapia developed his sweet, throwback soundscapes in his high school years and carries that multi-instrumentalist prowess to the beloved Highland Park venue of The Lodge Room for soft hearted singles and daydreaming couples. Swoon! Photo credit: Ross Harris

Atlanta-based Mattiel will play a show with Stolen Nova at the Lodge Room on April 8th. Their newest album release, "Georgia Gothic," takes Mattiel Brown's strong and pointed vocals and Jonah Swilley's fiery instrumentals and melts them into a new and golden sound. Photo courtesy of the Lodge Room.

Acclaimed Los Angeles singer-songwriters Alex Brown Church and Matt Costa have announced a joint US tour for the spring of 2022. At long last hitting the road in support of their most recent releases - Sea Wolf’s Through A Dark Wood (Deluxe) and Matt Costa’s Yellow Coat (Deluxe) – the tour will stop in Los Angeles on April 25th at the Lodge Room.

Veteran saxophonist Ronnie Laws has released over a dozen albums in his decades spent with Jazz, Funk, R&B, and Soul. His debut album, Pressure Sensitive, released on the famous Blue Note record label in 1975, immediately landing him on the top 100 charts where he planned to stay. Also known as the first saxophonist for Earth, Wind & Fire, Laws has worked with musical legends Stevie Wonder, BB King, Ramsey Lewis, and many more. He is joined by young talents…

Austin, Texas based indie rock duo Hovvdy are extending the celebration of the October 2021 release of their latest album True Love well into the next year. Catch them for an intimate set at the Lodge Room in Highland Park with support from L.A. based "living room pop" artist Mini Trees. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Stones Throw Records founder, and KCRW superfriend Peanut Butter Wolf teams up with label mate, and current Top 30 Chart topper J. Rocc for what will surely be an epic Friday night at Highland Park's Lodge Room. Photo by B+.

Are you "Cool Like Dat"? You could be by making your way over to Lodge Room to check out legendary jazz/hip-hop trio Digable Planets at either the early or late show option. Photo by Bruce Talamon.

The Witching Hours Presents Goon, Milly, and Draag at the Lodge Room on Friday September 2, in support of Goon's latest LP "Hour of Green Evening".

Sofie Royer comes to the Lodge Room on Tuesday, September 27th with special guests Teebs, Miss World, John Keek, Folerio (Peanut Butter Wolf) B2B Flaunt Edwards (J Rocc), and Stones Throw DJs.   Photo Credit: Kyle Keese

Say She She will be live the Lodge Room on Friday, November 11 as part of the Lodge Room's 5 Year Anniversary shows.   Photo by Milton Arellano.

Lodge Room presents: DeVotchKa featuring Brian Lopez on Tuesday, February 14.

ARTDONTSLEEP Presents Jazz is Dead with a live performance from Braxton Cook at the Lodge Room on Thursday, March 2. Not only does he exhibit world-class virtuosity on the sax, but he's also a talented vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist whose sound blends jazz, soul, and alt R&B into a new sound.

Vinyl Williams, Brendan Eder Ensemble, Scott Gilmore will be live at the Lodge Room on Sunday, March 5.

Lodge Room Presents Colin Stetson on Wednesday March 8, featuring Justin Garett Walter.

Dumbo Gets Mad will be live at the Lodge Room on Friday, March 10.

Drugdealer will be live at the Lodge Room on Friday March 17, with support from Kamikaze Palm Tree.

Lodge Room and Decibel Present Luke Vibert on Saturday, March 18, and the world debut of Optometry (John Tejada and March Adstrum) with a live A/V performance. Also on the lineup, Nordic Soul b2b DJ Warp.

Lodge Room Presents Warmduscher on Monday, March 20 - featuring Band Aparte and June Swoon.

N8NOFACE will be live at the Lodge Room on Wednesday, March 22, with support from Nervous Gender Reloaded and Gel Set.

ARTDONTSLEEP Presents Jazz is Dead: Adi Oasis at the Lodge Room on Saturday, March 25.

ARTDONTSLEEP Presents Jazz is Dead: A Live Performance of Hotel San Claudio by Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shigeto, and Melanie Charles at the Lodge Room on Thursday, April 6. Revered composer, pianist, DJ and two decade-long bridge between jazz, dance and hip-hop, Mark de Clive-Lowe (MdCL), links up with Brooklyn-based, Haitian-rooted, jazz vocalist and artist Melanie Charles and Detroit drummer/producer/DJ, Shigeto on Hotel San Claudio, a collaborative LP of spiritual jazz, live deconstructed beats, including a three-track set of Pharoah Sanders…

Lodge Room and ZZK Records Present Meridian Brothers, with support from Uji, El G, and The Gaslamp Killer on Friday, April 7.

The Voices of Creation are a community-based choir led by vocalist, songwriter, arranger, producer and main stay of the Los Angeles scene, Jimetta Rose. Made up of a multi-generational group of mainly non-professional singers backed by some of the city’s finest musicians, their music marries hip strains of gospel with layers of jazz, soul and funk. While aspects of their music might recall Kamasi Washington, The Staple Singers or Sly Stone, Jimetta’s unique vision has resulted in new spiritually-charged form…

(((folkYEAH!))) & Lodge Room Present Eddie Chacon with John Carroll Kirby at the Lodge Room on Wednesday, April 19, with support from latest Stones Throw addition Gabriel da Rosa. Revisit Eddie Chacon and John Carroll Kirby's Live From KCRW HQ set here.  

Tei Shi (pronounced “tay-shee”) is the moniker of singer/songwriter and producer Valerie Teicher. Growing up between Bogotá, Colombia and Vancouver, Canada, Tei Shi is heavily influenced by her ever changing environment and cross-cultural identity. Since her first two EPs, Saudade (2013) and Verde (2015) “introduced her to the world as a skilled and fluid vocalist… has fully stepped into her own, brewing up confections centered on trusting your own intuition.” (Pitchfork). Her groundbreaking song Bassically garnered over 17 million streams on Spotify alone and set…

Pearl & The Oysters is the French-American duo of Juliette Pearl Davis and Joachim Polack. The pair met at high school in Paris and immediately bonded over their mutual love for ’70s jazz and ‘90s space age pop. They have been writing and performing together ever since, and moved across the Atlantic together in 2015. Pearl & The Oysters signed to Stones Throw in 2022 and have since released the singles “Pacific Ave” and “Konami”. They will be playing an…

To declare one thematic narrative from Lucha, Y La Bamba’s seventh album, would be to chisel away a story within a story within a story into the illusion of something singular. “Lucha is a symbol of how hard it is for me to tackle healing, live life, and be present,” Luz Elena Mendoza Ramos, lead vocalist and producer of Y La Bamba, says of the title behind the album which translates from Spanish to English as ‘fight’ and is also…

The latest third full-length album from Overcoats, "Winner", takes place in the kind of New York City spaces meant for unencumbered dreaming: fire escapes and rooftops, downtown late at night, the majestic Manhattan skyline as glimpsed from the George Washington Bridge. But in paying homage to the city that formed them, singer/songwriters Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell set their storytelling against a sonic backdrop more reminiscent of wide-open landscapes—an unbridled and euphoric sound that evokes the wild rush of hitting…

End of Everything is the intrepid seventh album from Mega Bog, a nightmarish experimental pop ensemble led by Erin Elizabeth Birgy. In 2020, Birgy was surrounded by seemingly endless turmoil: mass death, a burning planet, and a personal reckoning when past traumas met fresh ones. Living in Los Angeles, against the backdrop of brilliantly horrifying forest fires, she questioned what perspective to use moving forward in such dumbfounded awe. Deciding to seize something tangible, she produced a record that spoke…

UK artist Westerman returns with his first offering in two years with the song “Idol; RE-run” out via Partisan Records. The new track, produced by James Krivchenia and Westerman, juxtaposes gentle and celestial sonics with an aggrieved disposition and features artwork by renowned New York via Portugal Graphic Designer and Illustrator Bráulio Amado. The song was written after Westerman emerged from a period of disenchantment with making music, and with the future of his career feeling abstract, it seemed unclear…

Ondara, formerly known as J.S. Ondara, brings his Rebirth tour to the Lodge Room on Wednesday, June 7.

Sessa, the São Paulo musician known for his enchanting 2019 debut album ‘Grandeza,’ returns with an expansive collection of songs built with reverence for the deep historical traditions of Brazilian music, now adorned with elegant strings, cascades of hypnotic rhythm, draped with his graceful backing choir. Whereas ‘Grandeza’ was about the softness of the human body, and the drunkenness of being in love, ‘Estrela Acesa’ is about love’s fragility and the hangover of it all. Recorded between June and September…

Los Angeles-based Fabiano do Nascimento is a multi-string guitarist and songwriter who melds the traditional idioms of his native Brazil (i.e., samba, choro) with the more contemporary and experimental strains of jazz, pop, and electronic music. Das Nuvens (“From the Clouds”), out July 21st on Leaving Records, is a crisp, frequently blissful, and deceptively groove-oriented showcase from a consummate musician — a rich and varied collection of songs, all of which seem to prioritize, and thrive in, the soft and…

Lodge Room Presents: Plaid - Feorm Falorx 2023 North American Tour on Friday, July 28, with support from Optometry (John Tejada and March Adstrum).

The Lodge Room presents Optometry live including a stacked line-up featuring Silent Servant, Baths, and Dntel on Wednesday, August 30, 2023. Both Dntel (Jimmy Tamborello of The Postal Service) and Silent Servant (Juan Mendez) contributed remixes to Optometry's latest EP, In-Visible-Distance. The indie electronic duo, comprised of John Tejada and March Adstrum, released the EP in July, proceeded in March by After-Image, its debut album. Baths, aka Will Wiesenfeld, recently released a two-volume original soundtrack and composed his first film…

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto have been the most important gaita and traditional cumbia ensemble in Colombia since the mid-1950s. Gaita is a term used to name a Colombian musical instrument, various musical genres, and an ensemble (the conjunto de gaitas), all from the Caribbean region of Colombia, from where much commercially available Colombian traditional and popular music comes. In the mid 1950s, they undertook their first tour throughout Colombia, under the leadership of folklorists Manuel and Delia Zapata Olivella.…

Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, director, and muse Niia appears and disappears with all of the silent pomp and circumstance of a ghostly succubus or a nightclub chanteuse in some Lynchian fever dream on a spaceship. At the same time, she’s not just on screen…No, she’s also behind-the-camera, pulling the strings, and playing god with the emotions of any voyeur curious enough to listen, watch, and feel. She’s completely tapped in, yet wholly removed from this world. Rather, she’s…

Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer knew they had balked before they even got home. In the Fall of 2021, Joyner and Widmer—for a dozen years, the beguiling garage-pop pair known as Generationals—wrapped the second of two sessions in Georgia for a new EP. They’d opted out of the process of file-sharing they had used for years. Choosing instead to cut songs straight to tape in Athens, a spiritual epicenter for their brand of twinkling tunes. The results sounded great, but…

Hailing from Assam in northeast India, Jitwam, the self-proclaimed “psychedelic soul savant”, has steadily carved out his own lane and cemented himself as a global sector and live performer and label front at The Jazz Diaries. With a signature style that moves across an array of genres, Jitwam’s music bounces between dance-floor tempos, jazz influences and soulful beatscapes that burst with a palpable rhythm section, drawing in listeners time and time again. Incorporating sounds from across the world, Jitwam marries…

Multi-instrumentalist and perhaps one of the hardest working artists around, GUM (aka Jay Watson) has somehow found the time to write and record a fresh collection of solo tracks for the first time since 2020. The newest release“Race to the Air”soars into view like a gigantic interplanetary craft, it takes in a sparkling vista of cosmic disco-all robo-grooves and quivering strings. GUM has gifted five studio albums since 2014, somehow finding time between his commitments with Pond and Tame Impala.…

Theon Cross is one of those rare musicians whose vision has redefined their instrument. His unique approach to the tuba has expanded the instrument’s sonic possibilities in revolutionary fashion, restoring it to a long-forgotten prominence as a crucial part of the contemporary jazz ensemble. Through his combination of technical mastery, studio smarts, deep musical knowledge and expansive vision, the power and originality of Theon’s playing has reinvented the tuba’s place in modern music. His most recent album, Intra-I (meaning ‘Within…

“I didn’t feel like being introspective,” says Laetitia Tamko of her playful and adventurous new album Sorry I Haven’t Called. “I just wanted to have fun.” As Vagabon, Tamko is no stranger to reinvention. Following her intimate 2017 debut Infinite Worlds, the New York artist favored expansive and evocative electronic textures in her breakthrough 2019 self-titled follow-up. But her latest LP, which is out September 15 via Nonesuch, feels like a wholly new era for Tamko, one that’s transformational and…

Nick Waterhouse will be live at the Lodge Room on Saturday, December 30.