Evening Elephants started at a party in Silverlake in 2021, where Sam Boggs and Brandon Leslie discovered they had actual musical chemistry and named the project after a detail from Naruto.
Their first show, thrown in the same backyard where they'd met, pulled more than 150 RSVPs in 48 hours — a genuinely grassroots start for a band that hadn't released anything yet.
'Snow on the Bluff,' produced by PJ Bianco (Imagine Dragons, Jonas Brothers), has passed six million streams, and the duo sold out shows in New York and Denver within their first year as a band — sun-drenched indie-rock hooks blended with hip-hop and electronic touches, built specifically around the backyard-show culture that started them.