“Thoroughly original, one-of-a-kind performances.”
“In the Before times, We Are The West whittled a niche for themselves in L.A.’s kaleidoscopic music scene with their Underground Series of eclectic monthly concerts, launched in October 2011 in an underground garage in Santa Monica. Guitarist Brett Hool and bassist John Kibler led a revolving tribe of musicians and a community of kindred spirits drawn to the ambient acoustics and candlelit atmosphere of the space, where music could range from fingerpicked folk or jazz to rocking, reggae-infused jams and strangers in the multigenerational audience could become fast friends — nights that reminded one why L.A. is a music mecca. But then coronavirus struck, followed by Safer at Home orders, and that bohemian underground world was shut down...”
We Are The West’s underground parking garage concert series “feels like the wave of the future” Los Angeles Magazine, presenting a recontextualized and genuinely deep musical experience. The Saturday before each full moon, the band transforms an everyday office parking garage into an extraordinary performance space. Different guests open each night, from established artists and acclaimed bands, to chamber groups and avant-garde sound experiments. The garage itself provides an unusually welcoming environment, a perfect setting for We Are The West’s transporting and dynamic sound. “If the parking garage is an instrument itself, Hool and Kibler are virtuosos” Santa Monica Daily Press.
