[ATTENDED: November 7, 2025] Rocket
About a year ago I saw Rocket open for Ride and I loved their set. I wrote then
This band is from LA and holy cow, they scratched just about every musical itch I had. Soft female vocals, shoegaze to heavy crunchy guitars. It was all there. I loved every second of their set.
I mentioned the L.A. part because there’s a few bands named Rocket and this was the easiest way to distinguish them.
Anyhow, I said that I would definitely see them again and here was a great opportunity.
There’s nothing fancy in Warehouse on Watts and that’s totally fine. It’s all about the music. And wow, did Rocket sound great. Despite this being a tour for their new album, they opened with Take Your Aim from their previous album. It’s got great guitar riffs and a classic 90s alt rock sound, It wasn’t quite as immediate as Portrait Show (which won me instantly last time and which they didn’t even play this time (!). But it was still great.
I loved the vocal melody on the chorus of Sugarcoated. Things got loud again with a great fuzzy bass intro and perfect guitar lines on “Act Like Your Title.” “Crossing Fingers” continued with perfect quiet verses and soaring vocals and a great chord progression in the chorus.
For The choice she moved to the keys adding a droning high end with really no low end–a nice mix up in tone as the guitar played a cool melody. But SHE was back to the bass for Crazy with the nice low end kicking back in. For Number One Fan, the guitarist moved to synth for this dreamy slow song.
The final three songs were three that they played last time, too. They were unreleased at the time. Pretending has another classic grungy riff–hits all the sweet spots. Wide Awake is a solid rocker with guitar harmonics and a heavy riff.
And R is for Rocket is a fantastic set ender. It rocks with a great riff and then has a lengthy jam in the middle of the song–not a wild soloing jam, just a nice noisy jam with the band enjoying the riffs that they made.
The set was about an hour and they played a great set, I was pretty surprised that they didn’t play more of the songs they played last time. But it was nice to hear the new ones.
| 2025 [W.O.W. headline] | 2024 [open Ride] |
| Take Your Aim ∇ | Portrait Show ∇ |
| One Million ® | Sugarcoated ∇ |
| Sugarcoated ∇ | Pretending ® |
| Act Like Your Title ® | On Your Heels ∇ |
| Crossing Fingers ® | Normal to Me ∇ |
| The Choice ® | Pipe Dream ∇ |
| Crazy ® | Wide Awake ® |
| Number One Fan ® | R is for Rocket ® |
| Another Second Chance ® | |
| Pretending ® | |
| Wide Awake® | |
| R is for Rocket® |
® R is for Rocket (2025)
∇ Versions of You (2023)
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