Mexico City Blondes Kick Off First Fridays

What’s that sexy, edgy, cinematic SoCal trip-hop sound Mexico City Blondesare making — and you’re telling me it’s from Santa Barbara? Yep! As Mexico City Blondes, dynamic S.B./Ventura-based duo of Greg Doscher and Allie Thompson craft a sultry, smoky kind of electronic rock in the vein of Phantogram, Massive Attack, and a touch of Beach House. It’s just the kind of stylishly underground sonic grit we need.

On Friday, May 3, Mexico City Blondes will kick off the first of this summer’s First Fridays festivities at the Hotel Californian (36 State St.). They’ll be celebrating the launch of their first full-length album, Blush, in celebratory fashion at the free-to-enter, all-ages-welcome event. 

Beginning at 4 p.m., you can sip on complimentary rosé tastings by Malene and Veuve Clicquot and enjoy the accompanying sounds of solo songstress and indie dance pop artistYour Smith. Then, segue into a live set from Mexico City Blondes at 5 p.m. before they cap off the night with a listening party and cocktail party on the Serena terrace at 7:30 p.m. The band’s reemergence on the area music scene seems to coincide nicely with this First Friday as part of the Funk Zone’s evolutionary refinement toward a more substantively elegant kind of hip, or a hip kind of elegant.