LA Font

Session Date: April 20, 2011

LA Font are:
Danny Bobbe – Vocals / Guitar
Greg Katz – Bass / Vocals
Jon Perry – Guitar / Vocals
Harlow Rodriguez – Drums

Set List:
Telenovela
Sharks
Free Shot

Meet Danny Bobbe: night bus intellectual, enfant terrible, LA Font frontman. Transplanted to Los Angeles from Montana in 2008 with little besides a Volvo station wagon to his name, he’s since established himself as one of the city’s most compelling songwriters. (The Volvo met a worse fate.) LA Font’s songs, indie rock laced with hooks, jutting with spiky guitars on loan from Pavement, bouncing with the rhythms of the American West, tell the tales of hipsters and gangsters; traumatic brain injury and Sidney Crosby; the homeless in Santa Monica and on Skid Row; crumbling relationships and subway hucksters selling something that they swear is 14-karat gold (“and truthfully,” Bobbe wails in “White Man,” “it’s really hard to say”). For LA Font, the city is Bukowskiesque – bleak, gritty, laden with traps – but it remains a place that promises change to the courageous.