Sid The Cat

Sid The Cat Presents

Ron Gallo

W/ 3LH, santa chiara

9/21/2023 at Gold-Diggers

21+

Hi, my name is Ron Gallo, I live on the line between two mindsets:

1\. The world is completely fucked

2\. The universe is inside you

This is my artist bio. Who has time to read this in 2022? With all that's happening? With these attention spans? I know I am not cool or important -- no one is -- I think it's a good thing. Listen to the music, come to a show, think for yourself. The best compliment I ever received was when someone told me they can never tell when I am serious. My two biggest fears are opposites -- having a child or killing someone. You're probably a little confused or annoyed, but at least you're not asleep. That's kind of my thing. I bet you made it this far. Success!!!

We have all been through a lot. Especially the last few years but also all the years before that. There was never time to collectively stop and question what has been considered "normal" for so long and it turns out nothing really is. These ways of thinking and doing in America were never serving everyone but now they're not serving anyone (except maybe 5 guys that all look identical and own everything). So, I spent an entire record trying to understand what is happening, what's wrong with this place and what's wrong with myself, it's called "FOREGROUND MUSIC" and it's going to come out on legendary label, Kill Rock Stars, on 3/3/23.

This is a 21+ event.

SID THE CAT

Ron Gallo

Young Lady, You're Scaring Me

Gigs

Los Angeles

Gold-Diggers

Sid The Cat & Bob Baker Marionette Theater Present

School House Rocks: Al Menne Album Release Show

W/ Mal

9/21/2023 at Bob Baker Marionette Theater

A portion of the proceeds will benefit Field Trips For LA Youth

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Al Menne has spent a lot of time driving in cars. Whether taking trips up and down the West Coast, touring in a van, or working as a delivery driver, they’ve become intimate with the possibility, at any moment, of disaster. “At the end of a very long driving shift,” Menne says, “there’s a moment when you realize, I shouldn’t be driving right now. Anything can happen. You really can’t be in control of everything that’s happening around you.” Freak Accident, their debut solo album, probes this feeling as it unfurls with the patient ease of a passing landscape while harboring the kinetic weight of life’s chaos at its core.

Menne came up in the music scene as the lead singer of Seattle-based rock band Great Grandpa. In this outfit, Menne’s remarkable voice was on full display, despite not being the primary songwriter. When Great Grandpa took a break in 2019 due to various life circumstances, Menne was free to explore new musical pockets and step into their own as a songwriter, which precipitated a move from their lifelong home in Seattle to Los Angeles in 2021. At just under thirty minutes, Freak Accident is an inviting meditation on seeking protection from life’s chaotic thunderbolts in our relationships and connections. These nine songs, like smooth rocks pocketed for self-soothing, serve to shore us up against situations that are ultimately out of our control. On tracks that veer through canyons, careen across highways, and wend through the avenues of memory, Menne offers us a way through.

This is an All Ages event.

School House Rocks: Al Menne Album Release Show

Al Menne

Bob Baker Marionette Theater

Sid The Cat Presents

La Perla

W/ El Marchante (DJ Set)

9/24/2023 at Genghis Cohen

La Perla is a musical project created by Karen Forero, Giovanna Mogollón and Diana Sanmiguel, musicians investigating the musical tradition of the Colombian Caribbean with more than 10 years of experience in interpreting the format of gaitas and drums and sung dances. It was born in 2014 and throughout these years they have maintained a basic training, where they have invited other members to join and build in different stages until defining the aesthetic and staging resources that have allowed them to stand out in the capital and national environment.

In 2015 they were winners of the Gaita’s Festival of Ovejas, Sucre, in the amateur category as the first group from Bogotá and the second group of women to win this recognition in the entire history of the festival. Since then it has been an innovative project that, inspired by the traditional sounds of the Caribbean, pays tribute to cultural legacies, which ventures through other routes of the greater Caribbean and which converge in spaces of innovation, until reaching an original sound with attitude and with a very unique charisma that fully represents the new Colombian music.

This is an All Ages event.

La Perla

La Perla - Bruja

Genghis Cohen

Sid The Cat Presents

Show Up!

Featuring Gracie Gray & Korey Dane

9/26/2023 at Gold-Diggers

21+

***RSVP does not guarantee entry. Show is first come, first served.***

This is a 21+ event.

Show Up! Featuring Gracie Gray & Korey Dane

Gracie Gray

Korey Dane

Sid The Cat Presents

Cece Coakley

W/ Ethansroom, Caity Krone

9/28/2023 at Genghis Cohen

Cece Coakley is hitting her stride. In the wake of her debut 2022 EP “Tender,” the 22-year old singer-songwriter is exploring a world beyond her native Knoxville, literally and metaphorically.

Fresh off touring with rising acts like Medium Build, Stephen Sanchez, Field Guide and Ella Jane, Coakley has no shortage of new experiences to draw from. “The first EP came out of living at my parents’ house,” she explains. “Now I’m writing new songs on the road and trying them out live the same night –– I’ve grown up so much making this new music.” Splitting her time between Nashville and LA, Coakley partnered with new collaborators like Andy Seltzer (Maggie Rogers, Samia) and Jake Munk (Miley Cyrus, Ethan Tasch) to help her cultivate her ideas without “dimming their light.”

Throughout her new writing, Coakley examines life on a larger scale –– from missing friends across time zones to the bittersweet feeling of returning home. The old version of Coakley is its own character in her writing, forcing her to look over her shoulder at the life she grew out of. In the lineage of other crossover artists like Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves, Coakley’s reflections on coming of age feel both universal and intimate, delivered in soaring pop hooks over beds of jangly acoustics, banjo and slide guitar. The influence of the country artists she grew up on shines through, delivering her narrative lyricism with an emotional, powerhouse voice.

This is an All Ages event.

Cece Coakley

Caity Krone

Sid The Cat Presents

shame

w/ Disq

9/28/2023 at Pappy & Harriet's

shame were tourists in their own adolescence - and nothing was quite like the postcard. The freefall of their early twenties, in all its delight and disaster, was tangled up in being hailed one of post-punk’s greatest hopes. In 2018, they took their incendiary debut album Songs of Praise for a cross-continental joyride for almost 350 relentless nights. They tried to bite off more than they could chew, just to prove their teeth were sharp enough – but eventually, you’ve got to learn to spit it out. Then came the hangover. shame’s frontman, Charlie Steen, suffered a series of panic attacks which led to the tour’s cancellation. For the first time, since being plucked from the stage of The Windmill and catapulted into notoriety, shame were confronted with who they’d become on the other side of it. This era, of being forced to endure reality and the terror that comes with your own company, would form shame’s second album, 2021’s Drunk Tank Pink, the band’s reinvention.

This is an All Ages event.

shame

shame - Water in the Well

Disq

Pioneertown

Pappy and Harriet's

Sid The Cat Presents

Mike Viola Record Release Show

W/ LA Exes

9/29/2023 at Pico Union Project

Mike Viola is a producer, musician, songwriter and singer. Viola may be best known for his work with Panic! at the Disco, Andrew Bird, Ryan Adams, Jenny Lewis, Fall Out Boy and Mandy Moore, but his solo career stands on its own starting with a number of acclaimed records as the leader of New York based cult favorite Candy Butchers and 7 critically adored Mike Viola records. His original music has been featured on soundtracks for movies such as That Thing You Do!, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Get Him to the Greek.

Decades into his career, his music continues to resonate with and inspire new generations of musicians and music lovers. Viola is cranking out more music than ever, notably the recent fan- favorites, 2019’s “The American Egypt” and 2021’s “Godmuffin.

A new Mike Viola album, “Paul McCarthy”, will be released on April 14, 2023 via Good Morning Monkey/Grand Phony in the US, Lojinx in Europe and Sony in Japan.

Paul McCarthy was recorded over the summer of 2022 on 1/2” tape at “Barebones”, Viola’s home studio in Los Angeles. Joined by his friends Jake Sinclair on bass and Brendon Urie on drums. Viola says, “I set out to make a sonic monster using the legs of ‘James Gang Rides Again,’ the heart of Black Sabbath ‘Paranoid,’ with my kid brain inside my greying middle-aged head on top. I’ve hit a point in my life where instinct has taken the reins fully, logic now waits in the wings to sweep up the stage and pay the taxi fare home. This album is the result of committing to this path fully and laughing all the way.”

This is an All Ages event.

Mike Viola Record Release Show

Mike Viola

L.A. Exes

Pico Union Project

Sid The Cat Presents

Rose City Band

W/ Swimming Bell

10/2/2023 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

Patio Show.

21+

Rose City Band’s country psychedelic rock evokes the wide-open spaces of the American west and free spirits who call it home. The project of acclaimed guitarist and vocalist Ripley Johnson, Rose City Band has extended beyond the studio and lives in tandem as a live ensemble featuring some of the finest players in contemporary rock: pedal steel guitarist Barry Walker, keyboardist Paul Hasenberg, bassist Dewey Mahood (aka Plankton Wat) and drummer Dustin Dybvig. Garden Party is a celebration of summer and all it brings: communal gatherings, the respites offered by nature, and an appreciation for even the simplest beauty, from 12-foot sunflowers to a contorted carrot planted in the spring. Freedom, contentment, and joy were the sources for the songs. From the soaring guitar solos, to the driving rhythms, the elegant pedal steel lines to the organ grooves, Garden Party has a live band’s energy captured in exquisite detail.

At its inception Rose City Band focused on what songwriter Johnson calls “porch music”. Recorded largely at Center for Sound, Light, and Color Therapy in Portland and mixed by John McEntire, Garden Party features guest appearances by Moon Duo bandmates John Jeffrey on drums and Sanae Yamada on synths, as well as Rose City Band live performers Hasenberg on keyboards and Walker on pedal steel. With the musicians in his life in mind, Ripley’s porch has opened up for each player to step into. Despite being tracked primarily as a solo endeavor the recordings capture the twists and bends of a fully realized ensemble, and in a nod to bands such as the Grateful Dead it doesn’t stop there. “The songs won’t really be finished until we play them on the road,” says Johnson.

This is a 21+ event.

Rose City Band

Rose City Band - Rip City

Swimming Bell

Permanent Records Roadhouse

Sid The Cat Presents

Flat Worms Record Release Show

W/ QWOS, Shannon Lay

10/6/2023 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

***Inside Show.***

Hitting flat and hard with their bass-drums-guitar and vocals alignment, Flat Worms use a buzzing combo of blunt force and surreal lyrics to hammer the absurdity of the status quo, as it deserves. Our social experiment continues to implode before our eyes; Witness Marks offers both critique and compassion, with songs that corkscrew through shades of exhilarating, dizzying and ambiguous spaces in between times of crisis and complacency.

This is a 21+ event.

Flat Worms Record Release Show

Red Hot Sand

Flat Worms

Shannon Lay

Sid The Cat Presents

SPELLLING

W/ My Brightest Diamond

10/7/2023 at South Pasadena Masonic Lodge

SPELLLING, the moniker of the Bay Area experimental pop mastermind Chrystia Cabral, has emerged as a visionary artist, pushing the boundaries of genre and captivating audiences with her richly envisioned albums and enchanting live performances.

SPELLLING gained widespread recognition with the release of her critically acclaimed debut album, Pantheon of Me, in 2017. The album showcased her prodigious talent as a songwriter,

producer, and multi-instrumentalist. In 2019, she signed to Sacred Bones and released her highly anticipated sophomore album, Mazy Fly, further elevating her artistic vision and expanding her sonic palette. In 2021 she released her breakthrough project The Turning Wheel, which saw her orchestrating and self-producing an album that features an ensemble of 31 collaborating musicians. The Turning Wheel has become a career-defining opus for the artist. The album received widespread unanimous praise, earning itself The Needle Drops #1 album of the year in 2021. As SPELLLING continues to evolve and explore new musical territories, she further solidifies herself as a once in a lifetime artist. Her ability to create beautiful soundscapes that transport listeners to other realms along with her transcendent live performances have earned her legions of dedicated fans. With each release, SPELLLING invites us on a mesmerizing journey into her world, leaving an indelible mark on the hearts and minds of her listeners.

This is an All Ages event.

SPELLLING

I Have Never Loved Someone

Spellling

My Brightest Diamond

South Pasadena Masonic Lodge

Sid The Cat & Bob Baker Marionette Theater Present

School House Rocks: SPELLLING

10/8/2023 at Bob Baker Marionette Theater

A portion of the proceeds will benefit Field Trips For LA Youth

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SPELLLING, the moniker of the Bay Area experimental pop mastermind Chrystia Cabral, has emerged as a visionary artist, pushing the boundaries of genre and captivating audiences with her richly envisioned albums and enchanting live performances.

SPELLLING gained widespread recognition with the release of her critically acclaimed debut album, Pantheon of Me, in 2017. The album showcased her prodigious talent as a songwriter,

producer, and multi-instrumentalist. In 2019, she signed to Sacred Bones and released her highly anticipated sophomore album, Mazy Fly, further elevating her artistic vision and expanding her sonic palette. In 2021 she released her breakthrough project The Turning Wheel, which saw her orchestrating and self-producing an album that features an ensemble of 31 collaborating musicians. The Turning Wheel has become a career-defining opus for the artist. The album received widespread unanimous praise, earning itself The Needle Drops #1 album of the year in 2021. As SPELLLING continues to evolve and explore new musical territories, she further solidifies herself as a once in a lifetime artist. Her ability to create beautiful soundscapes that transport listeners to other realms along with her transcendent live performances have earned her legions of dedicated fans. With each release, SPELLLING invites us on a mesmerizing journey into her world, leaving an indelible mark on the hearts and minds of her listeners.

This is an All Ages event.

School House Rocks: SPELLLING

Sid The Cat Presents

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

W/ Olivia Kaplan

10/12/2023 at Pico Union Project

One of the last authentic links to the great folk traditions of this country, with over 40 albums under his belt, two-time GRAMMY-winner Ramblin' Jack Elliott is considered one of the country's legendary foundations of folk music. Long before every kid in America wanted to play guitar — before Elvis, Dylan, the Beatles, or Led Zeppelin — Ramblin' Jack had picked it up and was passing it along. From Johnny Cash to Tom Waits, Beck to Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder to Bruce Springsteen, the Grateful Dead to The Rolling Stones, all pay homage to Ramblin' Jack Elliott. In the tradition of roving troubadours, Jack has carried the seeds and pollens of story and song for decades from one place to another, from one generation to the next. They are timeless songs that outlast whatever current musical fashion strikes today's fancy. His tone of voice is sharp, focused, and piercing; he plays the guitar effortlessly in a fluid, flat-picking, perfected style. A brilliant entertainer among fellow folk musicians waiting for you to come to them, Jack came out and grabbed you. Bob Dylan called him, "The King of the Folksingers".

This is an All Ages event.

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott

Olivia Kaplan

Sid The Cat Presents

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

10/13/2023 at Pappy + Harriet's

One of the last authentic links to the great folk traditions of this country, with over 40 albums under his belt, two-time GRAMMY-winner Ramblin' Jack Elliott is considered one of the country's legendary foundations of folk music. Long before every kid in America wanted to play guitar — before Elvis, Dylan, the Beatles, or Led Zeppelin — Ramblin' Jack had picked it up and was passing it along. From Johnny Cash to Tom Waits, Beck to Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder to Bruce Springsteen, the Grateful Dead to The Rolling Stones, all pay homage to Ramblin' Jack Elliott. In the tradition of roving troubadours, Jack has carried the seeds and pollens of story and song for decades from one place to another, from one generation to the next. They are timeless songs that outlast whatever current musical fashion strikes today's fancy. His tone of voice is sharp, focused, and piercing; he plays the guitar effortlessly in a fluid, flat-picking, perfected style. A brilliant entertainer among fellow folk musicians waiting for you to come to them, Jack came out and grabbed you. Bob Dylan called him, "The King of the Folksingers".

This is an All Ages event.

Sid The Cat Presents

CVC (Night 1)

W/ World Destroyers' Pleasure Club

10/17/2023 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

21+

**Patio Show.**

CVC, or Church Village Collective in full, named their band after the sleepy Welsh town they come from and, if they have it their way, will soon bring international renown to their hometown.

The six-piece musical collective are influenced by Snoop Dogg, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Super Furry Animals and Red Hot Chili Peppers and are comprised of singer Francesco Orsi, bassist Ben Thorne, drummer Tom Fry, keyboardist Daniel ‘Nanial’ Jones and singing guitarists David Bassey and Elliot Bradfield.

It’s worth noting that the latter two, despite never having met them, are related to Welsh royalty Dame Shirley Bassey and Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield, respectively. Maybe owing to genetics, Bassey states “I don’t think I’d be able to not do this, I don’t actively choose to, I’m just drawn to it”. But the band are all as equally talented with different skills that aid the cacophony of their sound. Simply put, CVC are a democracy, greater than the sum of its parts, and destined for world domination - perhaps!

CVC’s message is a universal one “peace and love and good times, stay real, stay true and that’s it.”

Their debut album 'Get Real', produced by the band and mixed by Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys), was released at the start of 2023 to critical acclaim ("A cracking debut album of feelgood, uber-retro gems" - NME, "A remarkably fully formed debut" - The Times), a year in which they will be touring far & wide.

Come join the Collective!

This is a 21+ event.

CVC (Night 1)

Sophie

Sid The Cat Presents

CVC (Night 2)

W/ Windows

10/18/2023 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

21+

**Patio Show.**

CVC, or Church Village Collective in full, named their band after the sleepy Welsh town they come from and, if they have it their way, will soon bring international renown to their hometown.

The six-piece musical collective are influenced by Snoop Dogg, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Super Furry Animals and Red Hot Chili Peppers and are comprised of singer Francesco Orsi, bassist Ben Thorne, drummer Tom Fry, keyboardist Daniel ‘Nanial’ Jones and singing guitarists David Bassey and Elliot Bradfield.

It’s worth noting that the latter two, despite never having met them, are related to Welsh royalty Dame Shirley Bassey and Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield, respectively. Maybe owing to genetics, Bassey states “I don’t think I’d be able to not do this, I don’t actively choose to, I’m just drawn to it”. But the band are all as equally talented with different skills that aid the cacophony of their sound. Simply put, CVC are a democracy, greater than the sum of its parts, and destined for world domination - perhaps!

CVC’s message is a universal one “peace and love and good times, stay real, stay true and that’s it.”

Their debut album 'Get Real', produced by the band and mixed by Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys), was released at the start of 2023 to critical acclaim ("A cracking debut album of feelgood, uber-retro gems" - NME, "A remarkably fully formed debut" - The Times), a year in which they will be touring far & wide.

Come join the Collective!

This is a 21+ event.

CVC (Night 2)

Windows

Sid The Cat Presents

Lady Apple Tree

10/19/2023 at Genghis Cohen

Lady Apple Tree is the solo project of Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Haylie Hostetter. Following the release of standalone single "Didn't Want to Have to Do It" (originally by The Lovin' Spoonful) in January 2023, "Silver Hands" is a preview of the debut Lady Apple Tree EP due for release later this year.

This is an All Ages event.

Lady Apple Tree

Franky Fox

Sid The Cat Presents

John R. Miller

W/ Taylor Kingman

10/20/2023 at Gold-Diggers

21+

John R Miller is a true hyphenate artist: singer-songwriter-picker. Every song on his thrilling debut solo album, Depreciated, is lush with intricate wordplay and haunting imagery, as well as being backed by a band that is on fire. One of his biggest long-time fans is roots music favorite Tyler Childers, who says he's "a well-travelled wordsmith mapping out the world he's seen, three chords at a time." Miller is somehow able to transport us to a shadowy honkytonk and get existential all in the same line with his tightly written compositions. Miller's own guitar-playing is on fine display here along with vocals that evoke the white-waters of the Potomac River rumbling below the high ridges of his native Shenandoah Valley.

Depreciated is a collection of eleven gems that take us to his homeplace even while exploring the way we can't go home again, no matter how much we might ache for it. On the album, Miller says he was eager to combine elements of country, folk, blues, and rock to make his own sound. Recently lost heroes like Prine, Walker, and Shaver served as guideposts for the songcrafting but Miller has completely achieved his own sound. The album is almost novelistic in its journey, not only to the complicated relationship Miller has with the Shenandoah Valley but also into the mind of someone going through transitions. "I wrote most of these songs after finding myself single and without a band for the first time in a long while," Miller says. "I stumbled to Nashville and started to figure things out, so a lot of these have the feel of closing a chapter."

This is a 21+ event.

John R. Miller

Taylor Kingman

Sid The Cat Presents

Allegra Krieger

W/ Luke Temple And The Cascading Moms

10/20/2023 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

Patio Show

21+

“I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane” – Allegra Krieger’s fourth record and her first with Double Double Whammy – is her most mature and alluring work yet. It contains all the signatures of her best lyricism: delicate and precise phrasings, moments that flicker between beauty and banality, meaning that forms through the accretion of observations, memories, and unexpected adages. This is an album that is at once post-theistic and devoted to a relationship with the divine, each song blinking in and out of “the fragile plane,” a place Krieger describes as “a middle ground in the universe,” both abstract and peaceful, where time, bodies, and names don’t exist.

Krieger’s peripateticism has clearly informed her songwriting. She spent her childhood on the blistering beaches and cold Catholic pews of northern Florida. Before settling in Chinatown, she drifted through suburban Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Portugal, Italy, and Ireland cleaning motel rooms, planting trees, tending bars, and picking olives. In “Terribly Free”, she walks with the rats in Manhattan; in “I Wanted to Be” she bites into a ripe orange somewhere in the south; in “Nothing in This World Ever Stays Still” she stands outside of a sports bar in LA watching coastal smoke rise from the hills; later, she describes being “moved by whatever’s moving us.”

This is a 21+ event.

Allegra Krieger

Sid The Cat Presents

PACKS

W/ Grady Strange

10/20/2023 at Genghis Cohen

In March 2020, as the world dealt with collective uncertainty, Madeline Link was dealing with unthinkable tragedy on a much more personal level. Her aunt, Lori Tate, was killed in Seattle, a victim of a hit-and-run. Madeline was spending the early weeks of lockdown with her parents and sister in Ottawa, stuck grieving remotely in Canada’s capital city with no distractions and nowhere to go.

“Laughter was the only way we were able to get through it,” says Madeline. “It was just us four, and all of us would be able to be silent whenever we needed to, and laugh and help each other out and cry when we needed to.”

And while the specter of death looms over Crispy Crunchy Nothing and its brisk, folk-rock vignettes of loneliness, yearning and confusion, so too does Madeline’s sense of humour. It’s bone-dry, tucked within her drawling vocals, and buried beneath guitars that alternately sneer and twang. But it’s there, the album’s beating heart — a sense of purpose and unflinching resolve evident even in its title, taken from Madeline’s description of biting into a moldy apple.

“Some bear in a hat told me only you prevent the fire,” sings Madeline on “Smallest One,” the same song where she tears through a series of Matryoshka dolls trying to find the end, a philosophy that gets her through life’s neverending problems. “I was seeing life as this series of challenges where there’s always going to be another thing you have to worry about. In theory, the dolls get smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller. But there’s always going to be another one after the next one.”

This is an All Ages event.

PACKS

Grady Strange

Sid The Cat Presents

Tommy Prine

Jordan Smart

10/22/2023 at Gold-Diggers

21+

Tommy Prine's debut album "This Far South'' coming June 23, 2023 is not only a long awaited introduction but a testimony to Prine's 20's and the loss, love, and growth that has defined them. Co-produced by close friend and kindred musical spirit, Ruston Kelly, and beloved Nashville engineer and producer, Gena Johnson, the album is rich and dynamic from cathartic jams to nostalgic storytelling.

The son of late songwriting legend, John Prine, Tommy Prine grew up in Nashville surrounded by music, art and writing. As a child, he thought all parents were musicians, as his father "going to work" meant performing shows for adoring fans and writing songs. Tommy learned to play guitar by watching his father play, copying the ways his fingers moved and inadvertently developing his own singular style. Summers in Ireland lent their own inspiration, as did 10 straight years camping at Bonnaroo. Prine's musical tastes grew to become decidedly eclectic, spanning John Mayer, Outkast, Bon Iver, the Strokes and more.

It wasn't until Prine reached his mid-twenties, though, that he considered a career of his own in music and began to share with others the songs he wrote in private. His songs were quickly met with excitement and enthusiasm, which sonically brings together a colorful patchwork of musical influences and lyrically explores existential questions and emotional experiences.

This is a 21+ event.

Tommy Prine

Jordan Smart

Sid The Cat Presents

Marem Ladson

W/ Micah Preite

10/23/2023 at Genghis Cohen

In the depths of Marem Ladson's music lies a profound exploration of her cross-cultural identity, intertwining her unique approach to lyrical and introspective songwriting with influences from folk, pop, and Spanish traditional music.

Hailing from Galicia in northern Spain, Marem sought solace from an early age in the written word, penning short stories and poems that served as windows into her internal world. It was not long before she discovered the transformative power of music, teaching herself to play the guitar and transforming her literary creations into heartfelt songs. It was through music that she sought to understand herself, seeking connection and a true sense of belonging. In Galicia, she found a close-knit community of musicians at Café Torgal, a small indie music venue that birthed her artistic awakening. It was there that she immersed herself in the music of artists like Damien Jurado, Matthew E. White, and Lee Ronaldo, while also stepping onto the stage for her first live performances. In 2018, she released her self-titled debut album, which led to extensive touring in Spain and Portugal, sharing stages with renowned acts like Cat Power and Laura Gibson.

This is an All Ages event

Marem Ladson

Micah Preite

Sid The Cat Presents

Molly Burch

W/ Christelle Bofale

10/25/2023 at Highland Park Ebell

Singer-songwriter Molly Burch, renowned for her captivating vocals and vivid depictions of love and loss, is back to announce an upcoming tour and the release of her most recent album, Romantic Images. Burch's tour will showcase her introspective songwriting and deliver unforgettable live performances to audiences across 18 cities starting in the birthplace of her last three albums Austin, Texas and finishing in her hometown of Los Angeles with support from Christelle Bofale. Tickets go on sale this Friday May 26th at 10am local time.

Having recently relocated to her hometown of Los Angeles, Molly Burch embarked on a personal journey informing her upcoming work. Alongside the tour dates today she's teasing a small taste of what's ahead in a new visual titled "things to come." The visual cuts between footage from the present and Molly's childhood, a small fraction of the collage of experiences that have become a catalyst for her personal growth and the project to come.

This is an All Ages event.

Molly Burch

Please Be Mine

Christelle Bofale

Highland Park Ebell

Sid The Cat & 88.9 KCRW Present

Girl Ray

W/ Flamango Bay

11/3/2023 at Gold-Diggers

21+

Girl Ray have never been afraid of switching it up. In the space of just three albums they’ve gone from janglepop darlings to being one of the most exhilarating and original pop bands around. Making their timely return with an album of unapologetically escapist alt-pop anthems, they shape-shift again on their new album, Prestige, as they look back to the post-disco dancefloors of the early eighties with a record that feels almost subversive in its sanguinity.

Co-produced by Grammy Award winning producer, Ben H. Allen (M.I.A, Gnarls Barkley, Christina Aguilera, Deerhunter) along with the band’s singer and songwriter Poppy Hankin Prestige takes the shambolic charm of their debut and the indiefied R&B of their last album and injects it with a booster shot of Hi-NRG eighties disco pop.

Bringing their deep understanding of modern pop and the bittersweet melodies of ABBA and Kate Bush and mixing it all together with the post-punk playfulness of Orange Juice and a love of Donna Summer and Yellow Magic Orchestra, Girl Ray have come back with a life affirming celebration of the transformative power of pop music at its most glorious.

This is a 21+ event.

Girl Ray

Girl

Sid The Cat Presents

Spacemoth

11/3/2023 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

**Inside Show.**

**21+**

No Past No Future is the debut album of psychedelic, space-pop artist Spacemoth.

As Spacemoth's Maryam Qudus was hard at work in her recording studio, synthesizers piled high, she found her mind in another place, hypnotized by the questions swirling inside her: “How could I ever face this world alone?” she wondered. “How long will I be able to stay in this place that I love?” Attempting to understand her position in the universe, the relationships that hold her together, and the climate crisis unfolding around her, she realized ruminating over these concerns was paradoxically taking her away from precious experiences. No Past No Future is the reckoning point between nostalgia and nihilism: the struggle to hang on to a moment as it warps in time.

Devotion to music has driven Qudus—a performer, composer, and producer based in the Bay Area—for as long as she can remember. At age twelve, she traded chores for guitar lessons; at sixteen, she took on after school jobs to pay for voice lessons. As a first-generation Afghan-American child of working-class immigrant parents, finding a place in music has been nothing short of a challenge for Qudus. But after years of building a reputation as a sought-after producer and studio engineer, she’s found a prominent place for herself. She’s collaborated with countless artists, including clients like Wax Nine’s Sad13, Toro y Moi, and Tune-Yards, which expanded her endless curiosity for recorded music and sparked the studio experiments that became No Past No Future.

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Spacemoth

Sid The Cat Presents

This Is The Kit

W/ Rozi Plain

11/4/2023 at South Pasadena Masonic Lodge

In today's fast-paced mid-apocalyptic world it can feel like a waste of time to speak about time at all. Why dwell on the past when we could just live in the present because the future won't shut up about how bad it's going to be?

But with This Is The Kit, the pseudonym of songwriter / banjo strummer / pinhole camera lover / Winchester UK born Paris dweller Kate Stables, we're going to have to give time just a modicum of consideration. Because not only is Kate still here and making albums of cataclysmic honesty and welcoming tonal embraces, they are continuing to grow, which is probably the only smart way to move forward through time, unless you're one of those shrinkers.

This Is The Kit's music places companionship at a premium, so being welcomed into its space feels like an obvious privilege, on record and in concert hall with her stellar supporting cast of Rozi Plain (bass), Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums) and Neil Smith (guitar). And at this current point in our confusing history, continuing to be here at all, to stand tall and make music to gather to, that's a heroic act. Joyful survival as an act of time-wasting, I'll take that any day of the week. Look to This Is The Kit to spend at least one day of your week this year, I guarantee it will be time well wasted.

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This Is The Kit

Keep Going

This Is the Kit - Keep Going

Rozi Plain

Sid The Cat Presents

East Forest Featuring Marieme

11/7/2023 at Pico Union Project

**Doors at 7. Show at 8. No Support or Opener.**

**Standing Show Not Seated or Lying Down.**

Since his 2008 debut, East Forest has used the power of music to guide listeners through contemporary journeys of deep introspection. The electro-acoustic project has remained primarily a solo effort (of Krishna-Trevor Oswalt), straddling the worlds of ambient, neoclassical, electronic and indie-pop to help fans explore the vast reaches of inner space.

Whether via his Music For Mushrooms: A Soundtrack For The Psychedelic Practitioner album series, his collaborative spoken word album with Ram Dass, or one of his live communal “Ceremony Concerts,” East Forest’s goal has always been “building bridges and creating an approach that’s grounded, embodied, inclusive, and unarguable.”

His music uses art as a means for a message, but with his latest album Music For The Deck of The Titanic, the art itself becomes the message.

The album name is an homage to the infamous ship’s musicians who spent their last few hours playing songs for passengers facing the tragedy before them. Beautiful, poignant and extremely human, Music For The Deck of The Titanic is East Forest’s offering to the chaotic moment we’re all in.

“We just went through something where we thought as a people, ‘Is this the end? Will I die?’ I think that sometimes we gloss over that a bit, but it was traumatic and intense for all of us. In what ways can we midwife this process with beauty and honor, as opposed to just protecting ourselves? What can you do that meaningfully serves other people and is beautiful?”

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East Forest Featuring Marieme

East Forest - Cosmic Dance

East Forest & Marieme - Cosmic Dance

East Forest

Marieme

Sid The Cat & Bob Baker Marionette Theater Present

School House Rocks: SadGirl

W/ 2m8o

11/8/2023 at Bob Baker Marionette Theater

A portion of the proceeds will benefit Field Trips For LA Youth

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The genesis of any given rock n’ roll band is often shrouded in myth. When does a band actually begin? Is it the first practice? The first song written together?

SadGirl was born into the world when they played their first show in their native Los Angeles back in November 2013. To commemorate their first full decade together, the band is paying homage to the SoCal area by embarking on SadWorld -- a regional tour / traveling mini-festival of the towns and neighborhoods that fostered them since the beginning.

SadWorld consists of ten nights of intimate shows throughout the various communities in which SadGirl cut their teeth in their early years, each with their own unique and hand-picked support artists. This run of shows is meant to be both a celebration of the local scenes that helped shape and support the band, as well as a challenge to the modern touring model. In keeping with SadGirl’s penchant for small-batch DIY designed merch, the band will be offering limited edition, show-specific merch items at each stop on the SadWorld run, as well as a new vinyl compilation of old classics, rarities, and live versions of fan-favorites. Each show will be announced one day at a time, all leading up to SadGirl’s biggest headlining show to date.

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School House Rocks: SadGirl

Little Queenie

SadGirl

Sid The Cat Presents

Alexa Rose / Emily Scott Robinson

11/10/2023 at Gold-Diggers

21+

This is a 21+ event.

Alexa Rose / Emily Scott Robinson

Alexa Rose

Emily Scott Robinson

Sid The Cat Presents

Calvin Love Residency (Night 1)

W/ Alaska Lynch & The Maidens Of Fortune, Academy Of Light

11/12/2023 at Gold-Diggers

21+

Calvin Love returns with Lavender, the follow-up to the Canadian crooner’s 2020 LP, Night Songs. A reflective timeline of dusty folk, Lavender aims to capture the modern loneliness of the 21st century. A sorrowful soundtrack, inspired by the production of great crooners and folk artists of the 60s/70s/80s like Cohen, Lightfoot, and Nick Drake, to name a few, Love achieves a similar quality on Lavender.

Like a Chris Isaak trapped in a David Lynch film, Love’s haunted vocals guide the listener through poetic verses on the archetypes of love and truth, posthumous poetry by his grandfather circa 1930s, and escapism, all melting and flowing into a pool of celestial wisdom. Acoustic guitars sweep across desolate sonic landscapes of global narcissism, social media, and the universal need for connection. Hypnotic bass grooves and lush 3D string ensembles, wrap the listener in a familiar cinematic romance, embraced and mystified. Lavender explores the universal threads that make us feel and experience what we do, in a time when the need to peer into ourselves has never been more important.

Lavender draws you inwards, like staring up at the stars at night, or standing alone with the silence of the forest, Lavender wants you to find your own meaning.

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Calvin Love Residency (Night 1)

Warm Blindness & A Cool Breeze

Calvin Love - Magic Hearts

Calvin Love

Sid The Cat Presents

Flyte

11/14/2023 at South Pasadena Masonic Lodge

Flyte is the project of English songwriters Will Taylor and Nick Hill. The pair met at secondary school, eventually settling in Hackney, London. Taylor’s parents were both English teachers and inevitably, various literary influences trickled into the duo’s music- the band taking it’s name from Sebastian Flyte of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited.

After the release of two critically acclaimed albums, they have established themselves as an influential mainstay. The Loved Ones (2017) recorded with Burke Reid (Julia Jacklin, Courtney Barnett) in the Australian outback, explored the ways in which people struggle to process love. The albums’ crafted storytelling and ambitious, harmonic arrangements earned it the title ‘Best British debut of the year’ from the Sunday Times.

Second album ‘This Is Really Going To Hurt’ (2021), took them out to Los Angeles to work with collaborator Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon Iver). Seeing the sound move into a more simplistic and confessional mode, focusing entirely on the aftermath of relationships ending.

After extensive touring of Europe and North America, Flyte have teamed back up with Andrew Sarlo, this time at London’s famous Konk Studios, to record their most confident and collaborative work to date. The upcoming album, inspired by Taylor’s relationship with partner and artist Billie Marten , explores love in all its early forms and features artists such as Laura Marling, Bombay Bicycle Club and M Field.

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