Doors open at 7:30pm 21+ **(The venue will be closed from 6:30pm to 7:30pm to complete soundcheck and prepare the venue for the show) Doors open at 7:30pm sharp. This show is SOLD OUT in advance. The Siren is a small, intimate club style venue and seating is extremely limited on a first come first served basis after doors open and is dictated by estimated show sales. IT IS NOT A SEATED VENUE. Food is still served during concerts. We appreciate you supporting live music at the Siren!
(Tickets available at BooBoo’s, Ticketfly.com or at the doors night of the show if NOT SOLD OUT in advance!)
The White Buffalo is the project of earthy, Oregon-born and Southern California-raised singer/songwriter Jake Smith, who grew up listening to punk bands like the Descendentsand the Circle Jerks and didn’t pick up a guitar until age 19. During his college years in the Bay Area, he began writing and performing his own songs, hitting upon the White Buffaloname as one of several suggestions from his friends that he drew out of a hat. Smith‘s debut album, Hogtied Like a Rodeo, arrived in 2002, and he followed it three years later with The White Buffalo EP, which was produced by Eels‘ Koool G Murder. Released in 2008, Hogtied Revisited found Smith re-recording his first album in a friend’s bedroom. Gigs with artists including Gomez, Ziggy Marley, and Donavon Frankenreiter, and in locales as widespread as Japan and Australia spread the word of mouth about the White Buffalo. When pro surfer Chris Malloy heard Smith‘s music, he included the song “Wrong” in his movie Shelter, and White Buffalo tracks later appeared on the TV shows Sons of Anarchy and Californication. The 2010 EP Prepare for Black & Blue brought Smith to the attention of Unison Music, which signed the White Buffalo; the label’s heads, Bruce Witkin and Ryan Dorn, also co-produced 2012’s full-length Once Upon a Time in the West, featuring the talents of drummer Matt Lynott and bassist Tommy Andrews. It also placed on several Americana charts. Shadows, Greys & Evil Ways, a much angrier, prophetic and political concept album that was issued in 2013.
The recording was greeted with wide acclaim and it made Smith restless. Eager to alert new fans to what he’d done before and revisit a work terrain he felt was imperfect, he re-recorded Hogtied Like a Rodeo as a much rowdier, rocking, honky tonk album. Hogtied Revisited was issued in 2014.
