Concert Review: Voxhaul Broadcast At The Echo
By Seraphina L.
It’s hard to be the last band of the night to play, especially when the audience waited through three other bands. Voxhaul Broadcast closed The Echo’s Saturday night (Sept. 27th), and the soul-infused rock band exceeded the audience’s expectations. However, you would have known this would happen after reading BeatCrave’s interview with these guys.
The four piece band was able to continue pleasing the crowd until the end of the night with their groovy tunes and high energy. Although The Echo in LA has a small stage, it suited the sounds of Voxhaul Broadcast as they played with such a collective bond. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a band be so into each other on stage. Between watching the bass player’s thick Devendra Banhart-like hair creating a blur in place of his face (lucky genes for his offspring!) and watching the lead vocalist and his guitarist/keyboardist jump around to their own tunes like nothing else could be better, I was more than charmed. They could have done the cliché pair-up on one mic and sing with smiles bit, and I still wouldn’t have scowled.
With the frontman’s vocals sounding as smooth as his baby face looked, the audience soaked in the music and turned the intimate hole in the wall into one big dance party. Rumspringa’s Joey Stevens even got up front and added his bit with the maracas leftover from his set. Voxhaul Broadcast dished out solid guitar hooks and choruses that went beyond their popular “Rotten Apples,” although I think the audience would have gladly taken rotten fruit from the band if they had been chucked from the stage. Just as long as they kept playing those infectious feel good sounds.
Photo by alt-gramma
