Free Throw in Los Angeles
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About Free Throw
Free Throw is a pop punk and emo band from New Jersey that built a devoted following on the strength of introspective songwriting and infectious melodies. Their 2016 debut "What's Golden" introduced listeners to singer Mat Kerekes' particular brand of anxious vulnerability, where he'd examine his own neuroses with the kind of specificity that made them feel universal. Songs like "Lavender" and "Strawberry" became the kind of tracks people looped endlessly, catching new details in the production each time. The band kept releasing solid records—"Piecing It Together" and "Jet Black Jetpack"—each time refining their approach without losing the raw emotional core that made people connect in the first place. They're the kind of band that plays smaller venues but inspires genuine devotion from the people who find them.
Their crowds are engaged and vocal, singing along to every word like these songs have been soundtracking their lives. Energy is intense but intimate, the kind of show where people genuinely feel heard. Kerekes connects with the room; it doesn't feel performative.
Known for Lavender, Strawberry, Graphic, Map of the Sun, Gawker
Free Throw + Los Angeles
Free Throw's been quietly building something in the LA underground for a while now. Their April 2025 set at The Observatory showed a band comfortable with their own weirdness—they ran through sixteen songs that felt less like a setlist and more like someone's carefully curated playlist. "Such Luck" opened things up, and by the time they hit "How I Got My Shrunken Head" and "Now Kith," the room had settled into their particular brand of indie rock awkwardness. The deeper cuts like "Andy and I, Uh..." and "The Grass Isn't Greener" landed hard, suggesting a fanbase that knows every corner of their catalog. "Randy, I Am the Liquor" closed things out—a perfect note to end on, honestly.
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Live Music in Los Angeles
Los Angeles has always been more than just major label polish and stadium ambitions. The city's indie rock underbelly thrives in rooms like The Observatory, where bands like Free Throw can exist without compromise. There's space here for the genuinely weird and emotionally fractured stuff, the kind of guitar rock that doesn't need to explain itself. LA's indie scene has never been monolithic, and that's what keeps it interesting—acts willing to be strange find their people.
Los Angeles road trip to see Free Throw?
Stay in Los Feliz, where you can walk tree-lined streets and catch views from Griffith Observatory. Dinner at Republique in the Arts District—refined French-inspired food in a restored factory space that feels more Paris than LA. Spend an afternoon at the Huntington Library in San Marino, a world-class art collection that justifies the drive. The city's recording studio history is everywhere; walk through Hollywood and you're literally surrounded by the spaces where hits were made. End the night at a jazz bar like The Fonda Theatre or catch live music on Sunset Boulevard.
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