More than 30 artists, including, Rose’s Pawn Shop, Charlie Overbey, Dead Rock West, Brian Wright, Leslie Stevens and Manda Mosher, play Friday and Saturday at the Americana West Festival at the Hotel Cafe. Weekend and single-day tickets are on sale now. Find the set times here.
Roots music rules the Hotel Café on Saturday for the Americana West Music Festival’s two-stage affair, featuring the likes of Garrison Starr, Dustbowl Revival, Chris Pierce, Shane Alexander, the Morning Yells, Grand Canyon, Ted Russell Kamp and more.
With independent music venues imperiled and legislation to help them stalled with the rest of the pandemic relief package, the three-day Save Our Stages Fest, set for Oct. 16-18, will benefit NIVA’s relief fund.
Christened “The Second Stage,” the Hotel Café’s new room will have a capacity of about 85. An cozy show with Café favorite Cary Brothers kicks things off Feb. 5.
Incoming: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Dave Stewart & Friends, Madi Diaz, Sego, Opeth, Augustana, Eric Hutchinson, Kan Wakan, Dear Boy, Eastern Conference Champions, JMSN, James Blake, Andrew Bird, Tune-Yards, the Ataris, Ryn Weaver, Big Search, FMLYBND, Kingdoms, Howie Day, Ryan Adams, Jenny Lewis, Allah-Las, the Icarus Line, Black Belt Karate, Pepper, Gaby Moreno, De Lux, […]
Get in the spirit: ‣ Bust out your most hideous holiday knitwork, the Christmas Sweater Festival is back. Blues-rock duo Deap Vally [pictured] headlines the benefit for the Pablove Foundation, going off at the Bootleg Theater, supported by Western Lows, Boardwalk, Heaven and Crash. Ugliest Christmas sweater wins. ‣ Instrumental rock marvels El Ten Eleven […]
Back in May, we tipped you that the Hotel Café would be curating a stage at this year’s Sunset Junction. The lineup was announced today, and it includes a stellar cast of artists who’ve regularly played the Cahuenga Boulevard room, including Cary Brothers, Butch Walker and the Black Widows, Jim Bianco, HoneyHoney, Buddy and Mayor […]
Top 3 ways to spend your Tuesday: ‣ Lost In The Trees [pictured above] celebrate their release/re-release of their album “All Alone In An Empty House” by cramming a symphony on the tiny stage at Amoeba. The ensemble, led by Berklee grad Ari Picker, was assembled in Chapel Hill and fined tuned by producing great […]
If not a force of nature, Theresa Andersson is a force of technology. The Swedish-born, New Orleans-based songstress caused jaws to drop and hearts to swoon Tuesday night in the first of her four appearances this month at the Hotel Cafe. Owing perhaps to the early set time, the room was only one-quarter full; you […]
[I will be off the grid much of the coming week — and regrettably missing so many good shows — but I will be posting some material I have written in advance. E-mail response will be slow, and the phone will be off. However, I am fortunate to have procured the services of an intern, […]
