House Of Vibe : Just Be Thankful

The annual House Of Vibe "Just Be Thankful" Show

House Of Vibe : Wed Night Leo Party TONIGHT!!

The House Of Vibe AllStars is a collective of players, singers and rappers who get together every Wednesday night to stir souls and kick out the jams. Not all at once of course, but a night with HOVAS is like a cool party. It starts mellow but ends up a full-out bash. You never know who's gonna drop by!!

Anthony Brewster

Shaunte and Sebastian

Cecilia Noel

Brew

Kris Hawkins

Greg Raymond

Amy Lou

Myka 9

Chali 2na and LaidLaw

Deploi

It's funk, it's hip-hop, it's soul and r&b. There's nothing like it anywhere else. Every Wednesday, Brew and the crew get down like it's the last day on earth.
Like it's 1999.
It must be experienced to be understood.
A HOVAS show is like surfing a giant wave on an inflatable ass. It's like getting yelled at for playing your drums too loud - and not caring. It's like winning at chess and selling the most candy bars. It's impossible not to have a memorable time.

UltraLove : The Ultra-magnetic Emcee

Mike - the Ultra Lover hisself - has a mutha-funkin' serious party at Harvelle's once a week every Monday!! Real talk!! It's a great time and there's plenty of young beautiful L.A. "10"s that the band attracts. What more do you need? Party goes off around 9 or so... and it's a really good time.

Ultralove is Mike "UltraLove" Wagner (vocals, guitar), Seth Murphy (drums), Douglas Showalter (guitar), Mike Gunn (bass), Adam Berg (keys), Jon Piazza (keys and rap) and DJ Paper (spins).

 Ultralove brings his brand of soul and hip-hop flavored r&b to Harvelle's every Monday night.

Shaunte Palmer plays the trombone with House Of Vibe on Wednesday nights. Sometimes he and trumpeter Sebastian Legar come down to the Ultralove show and add some major brass.

Ultralove gives Saturday night style entertainment on a Monday.

DJ Paper 

can't stop playing 

those 

block-rockin' 

beats!!

Strange Brew : Koffee House Of Vibe

Every Wednesday, the musical gang known as HOVAS (House Of Vibe All Stars) celebrates with a cheap time at a place where everybody knows your name.

If you've been, you know.

If you've never been, and you like funk, r&b, reggae, rock and soul performed by the funkiest crew west of Detroit, (or at least north of Abbot Kinney) tonight's the night.

Harvelle's pics (top) the beautiful smile of Ijeoma Njaka and HOV leader Brew 'pon da mic.

AND SPEAKING OF BREW:
Koffeehouse Sessions is upon us. The first Thursday of every month is the singer/songwriter showcase that has the industry buzzing. The good people at Spin PR are sponsoring the night, which features Harvelle's "pin-up girl" Jessie Payo, Lost In Los Angeles, Terry Ilous and Cliff Beach. An open mic kicks things off at 6:30.

- Posted live from Harvelle's using BlogPress & the Hipstamatic photo app for the iPhone

Housin' and Vibin' @ Harvelle's!!

House Of Vibe is the Wednesday night house band at Harvelle's. Their combination of hip-hop, jazz, r&b, soul, rock and funk is as original as it is infectious. Tonight (as noted in the last entry) is Bif Chitlin's birthday. It is also Michael Bolger's, who sat in on trumpet!!

Besides being a birthday party, it was also a homecoming of sorts - band leader Brew has been on the road with De La Soul (and recently backed Talib Kweli on the Jimmy Kimmel Show) - and that's always cause for celebration.

Brew is thankful for what he gots

Deploi

Amy Lou

Jon Swift

Ijeoma Njaka

Kris Hawkins

Greg Raymond

Fish

Michael Bolger

T-Smidi

- Posted live from Harvelle's using BlogPress & the Hipstamatic app for the iPhone

Location:4th St,Santa Monica,United States

Dessy Di Lauro : Bringing Tha Funk

There ain't much about funk to know except it makes your head move uncontrollably; it bounces your maggot brain around in your afroskull.
That feeling...
That is funk.


Tonight I didn't get to "Tha H" until the third set; when I did, I saw a petite little thing of a woman turning it out, hitting the high notes and effortlessly singing her soul out. Without resorting to Mariah-like tricks and avoiding Sasha Fierce-esque canned "r&b" Dessy Di Lauro can hit the notes, scat and give a vocal performance worthy of a much larger venue, so it's a special treat to hear vocals done solidly and with pure musicality in the comfort of Harvelle's.

Backing her was easily one if the funkiest bands I've seen of late.

Propelled by a rhythm duo - badass bassist Timothy Bailey, and a drummer with power in reserve - Deon Hariston - they dominated their respective kits into funk submission.

Together they made my cranium dance and do that thing it does whenever funk is around.

Onstage with Dessy was a duo of women - Brandi Williams and Deona Hariston - who could vibrate their vocal chords with dire passion and important soul messages.

Keyboardist and music director Ric'key Pageot finessed the keys with strong hands and strength of mind.

He rocked the accordion accordingly and funk was again brought. The dude was dressed impeccably as well.


Awesome horn section Winston Byrd on trumpet and trombonist Shaunte Palmer were tighter than Ringo Starr's snare drum.

Shaunte (pictured below with a club patron) also plays with Wednesday's regular House Of Vibe All Stars.

PLEASE NOTE:
This next Wednesday Dessy and her band will be performing in place of HOVAS, so if you weren't there tonight you'll have another opportunity to get up, get into it and get involved.

- Posted live from Harvelle's using BlogPress & the Hipstamatic photo app for the iPhone

Location:4th St,Santa Monica,United States

House Of Vibe : If you can't stand the heat...

Wednesday's are the funkiest night of the week, and House Of Vibe All Stars celebrate it. Last night they turned it out with Chali 2na and rocked the place til closing. Chali will be sitting in with the band again in January.

If you're at Harvelle's tonight to usher in the new year, have the greatest time of your life!!

Gino Matteo will rock the house right!!

See y'all in 2010!

House Of Vibe : Tuna Melt

Chali 2na (below) gave us a party we won't soon forget Wednesday night at Harvelle's! The night's theme was 'sweat', and that we did, as the non-stop dance floor remained packed and kinetic.

House Of Vibe took their playing to an inspirational new level, as the musicians - Greg Raymond (keys), Pete Antunes (drums), Kris Hawkins (guitar), Corey Cofield (bass), Anthony Brewster (keys and vocals), Sebastian Legar (trumpet) Shaunte Palmer (trombone), Dan Boissy(sax)and Amy Lou (percussion) - jammed furiously, stunning and moving all at once. Westside Tribe members Deploi, Jon Swift and Tony Tarasco, took the stage like they were doing battle. And winning.

The party's highlight was Chali and his brother Laid Law (above). The H.O.V. backed hour-long set of new songs and classic Jurassic 5 (Chali's rap group) had the crowd singing along, waving their arms in the air and thrilled with the awesome 'robot dance' (below) he and Laid Law perpetrated.

Chali & Brew
Laid Law

Westside Tribe's Jon Swift & Deploi

Kris, Tony Tarasco & Deploi

TheArtist Kiki

Kasey and Amanda

(Miss Willie Brown)

[playing at Harvelle's on Sept 24]

Dan & Shaunte

The beautiful crowd included the ladies from Miss Willie Brown (Kasey & Amanda), Cecilia Noel (playing at Harvelle's on the 17th of Sept), TheArtist-Kiki and a plethora of fan's of true hip-hop.