Alphabet Soup: Club Oro, Charlie Havenick & Cameron Kinghorn (Playlist)

The Witching Hours and Safe Travels Present:

ALPHABET SOUP

A FREE, year-long, genre-less, scene-busting, residency to bring folks together across sound.

Los Angeles’ CLUB ORO began their venture on borrowed time — after hours at an indie recording studio where three of its members held internships, in a makeshift setup in mom’s garage, creating mostly between work shifts when their near-opposite schedules aligned. Eventually the quartet found a home base in the equestrian neighborhood of Glendale, where they would write and record music in their living room for a year and a half, releasing precious little in the way of music while they built a local following throwing house shows and posting a unique “improv” series to Instagram. CLUB ORO doesn’t yield from a specific lineage or owe its sound to any one genre — one minute they might meld a slowed-down hip-hop beat to a slew of phased out guitars and glittery synths, and in the same breath elicit a sighing alt-R&B slow jam about working midnights at a cash register. 2023 saw the release of “mailer daemon”, a jumpy art pop track that oscillates at the intersection of synth-driven pop and 90’s grunge, and has garnered the support of popular music media outlets like Fashionably Early, Let’s Show & Tell, Pigeons & Planes, That Good Shxt, Sheesh Media and more.

Instagram | Spotify | Bandcamp

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Charlie Havenick

Longtime drummer and instrumentalist for several LA indie rock outfits, Charlie steps to the forefront in her own band. In the space between conducting and maudlin shoegazing, Havenick’s project is a force to be reckoned with. In her debut album, Best Boy Electric, indie rock and slowcore aesthetics rage against folky, orchestral sincerity. Combining forces with members of jazz ensembles, local bands, and pedal steel legends, the ensemble takes on a convicted and harmonious sonic personality.

Instagram | Spotify

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Playlist Donated by Cameron Kinghorn (mem. King Pari)

21+ | Free

Resident

428 S Hewitt St

Los Angeles, CA