Formed late in 2012 in Laguna Niguel, California, The Whereabouts have played the run of SoCal venues where clubgoers still show up to listen than to be listened to, to see rather than be seen. These four guys — Hazard, bassist Tim von Gremp, drummer Andy Gardikas, and freshly returned founding guitarist Andrew Talley — have at least six feet of hair between them. But poseurs they are not.

Singer CJ Hazard’s voice harkens back to a time before auto-tune (he doesn’t need it) and multitracking (he doesn’t want it.) Songs like “Gypsy King” and “Misty Mauve” beg to be listened to in a bar where you can still smoke — the sheer length of the raw, lyrical guitar solo on “Misty” is an act of bravery in 2016. The band will tell you their current fave is “Truth or Dare,” an all-out arena rocker.