Rebel Rebel: Niia with SPELLES + KCRW DJ Anne Litt
HAMMER | 7:30 p.m., Hammer Museum
Celebrate the Hammer’s summer exhibitions with four nights of free live concerts and KCRW DJs in the museum’s courtyard. Food and cash bar. Galleries open until 9 p.m.
NIIA
Like a single strand of wafting smoke, Niia's debut album I is entrancing in its sparse, elegantly gliding beauty. A prodigious musician with jazz vocal training, Niia has spent the last eight years charting a path towards I that mirrors the patient, sneakily brilliant sounds the record contains. For anyone looking to find a soundtrack for their own ups and downs in the world of love, I is sure to score lonely nights and newly hopeful mornings alike.
SPELLES
SPELLES, the moniker of Los Angeles based singer/songwriter Kathryn Baar, first gained attention in 2014 when her at the time unreleased single “Bird in a Cage” was synced on the show Pretty Little Liars. Now, SPELLES is preparing to release her second EP titled Skeleton Coast I. Recorded in 10 days with the majority of help from producer Sonny DiPerri (Animal Collective, Emma Ruth Rundle) and collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Luc Laurent, the EP sonically ranges from stomp-y and tribal driven songs like “Teach Me How to Pray” and “Dead in the Water” to the delicate and haunting apocalyptic-esque guitar vocal track “Wildfire.”
Copresented with KCRW 89.9FM
Event Date: Thursday, Jul. 13, Happy Hour 6:30 p.m., Music 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Hammer Museum, Courtyard
Price: Free
The Hammer is located at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire boulevards in Westwood Village, three blocks east of the 405 freeway’s Wilshire exit.
Parking is available under the museum.