Think there aren't enough breakfast tacos in Los Angeles? Spoon lead singer Britt Daniel agrees, as he's crafted a custom taco for the Tex-Mex brunch restaurant HomeState, which is launching its Band Taco program to raise money for a scholarship fund.
Spoon is kicking off the series but a slew of high profile artists are set to follow him including The Roots' Questlove, Cold War Kids, Fitz and the Tantrums and Cherry Glazerr, according to Pitchfork. With that kind of all-star cast, who knows what kind of wild taco concoctions could be assembled?
The program will feature different tacos every month curated by different artists with proceeds going to support need-based scholarships at Silverlake Conservatory of Music, an L.A.-based non-profit dedicated to providing private music lessons to local youth.
"I'm at HomeState constantly so, frankly, when they asked me to create a taco I said, 'It's about time,'" Daniel said, as reported by Pitchfork.
Daniel's creation is titled "The Ranchero," a breakfast taco he said is meant to emulate the tacos he'd get every morning in Austin for 59 cents.
"The great thing about those breakfast taco places was that they were open til 3 in the afternoon - still an entirely appropriate time for breakfast," Daniel said, as reported by Pitchfork. "I'd wake up, take my girlfriend to work around 7, get breakfast, head home, catch a couple more hours of sleep, wake back up, work on a song, then head back to the taco shop at 2:45 for lunch. We called it double dipping. Conveniently, HomeState is open every day til 3."
Of course, these rock-star tacos can only be purchased at HomeState in Los Angeles, so east coasters are out of luck here.
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