In Stitches (Echo Park)

David Bazan played his final house show this past Sunday in Echo Park at our friend Ben & Heather’s – of the lovely band Summer Darling (shameless plug, they’re playing with our friends Kissing Cousins this Saturday Jan 23rd @ the Basement, Long Beach. Free before 9:30). Check out the performance of “Hard to Be” from Ben & Heather’s living room with Bazan and Blake Westcott.

I wish more artists took the house show approach. Maybe it would lose its intimate appeal if so, but I can promise you all 20+ people there on Sunday will forever buy his records and attend his shows solely from the connection they have with him now. That my friend is how it’s done.

Bazan will be playing at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach on March 8th. The one reason I will set foot in that bar after years of saying “oh hell no”