The Driftless Revelers W/RJ Bloke @ Cinema Bar, Culver City, CA

Schedule

Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 09:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

The Cinema Bar | Culver City, CA

The Driftless Revelers Chuck Wagons West! tour circles up at the iconic Cinema Bar, in Culver City, CA for a wild night of plectral oddities and freak folk frolicking -- come see these Wisconsin weirdos before they roll back east -- opening act -- RJ Bloke!
RJ Bloke (Jay Souza formerly of Patrolled By Radar) has been a respected and loved staple of roots music songwriting in Los Angeles for decades -- here's a link to a review of his latest album, Hold Drugs Dear, on Nomad Eel Records:
https://beardedgentlemenmusic.com/2025/01/13/rj-bloke-hold-drugs-dear-album-review/
More on the Driftless Revelers:
The Driftless Revelers formed in the second spring of the first global pandemic of the 21st century, with one ear turned toward the shellac platters and Victrola virtuosos of the early to mid 20th century, and the other ear glued to the soundscapes of the 1960's & 1970's American freak-folk scene.
​Since their debut tour in 2021, the band has billed with Grammy winning bluegrass legends like Tim O'Brien & the Gibson Brothers, toured extensively throughout the Upper Midwest performing with other amazing artists like Big Richard, Willy Tea Taylor, Davey Allen & the Midnights, and had breakout performances at several festivals and events (Sol Grass Music Festival, Mile of Music in Appleton, WI. featured in Rolling Stone Magazine).
These Eau Claire, Wisconsin based weirdos have earned a cult following of devoted fans from Minnesota to Michigan who appreciate their irreverent, highly original, and sometimes slightly psychedelic interpretation of American roots music with a Midwest twist. Their live show banter and thoroughly entertaining sets have earned them comparisons to Ween, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, They Might be Giants, Tenacious D, Cheech & Chong, and the Holy Modal Rounders. Their debut record, American Fork Standards (2022), was well received by their family members, and a few other people who said nice things about it. Their most recent record, Live at the Slowpoke Lounge & Cabaret (2024) captures the band's deadpan comedy and musical chops in a lounge environment that demands a proper listen in a leisure suit with a scotch & Pall Mall.
​Featuring the original songwriting of Ben Nelson, Matthew R. Sayles, and Jerod Kaszynski, the Driftless Revelers will pleasure a crowd with plectral wah pedal banjo tones, the mournful wailing of resophonic steel guitars, and the up-right bass bellows of an era that can't quite be defined, but revels in the timeless ephemera of weird old-time American music.
​With influences as varied and eccentric as a proper musty smelling thrift store record collection, the band grooves merrily through early roots blues and jazz music, to hillbilly and string band howlers, all the way into the not-quite folk but not-quite psychedelic realms of their own creation.
​A Driftless Revelers show will lure you in with their joy--keep you dancing with their search for the cosmic groove in the confines of stringed instruments--and will send you on your way with flashbacks of the Driftless Revelry found only in the essence of the intangible reaches of notes once played-- that then fall silent.
https://www.philvillerecords.com/thedriftlessrevelers

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The Cinema Bar, 3961 Sepulveda Blvd, Culver City, CA 90230-4600, United States
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