A Picture-Perfect Show with Little Image

Los Angeles, California - June 12, 2026

Echoes of little image’s performance in Los Angeles on Friday will be heard for years to come as the band got the sold-out crowd at The Echo moving.

Little image is a three-piece alternative group composed of lead vocalist and guitarist Jack Simmons, bassist Brandon Walters, and drummer Troy Bruner. This show at The Echo is part of the band’s second leg of the KILL THE GHOST TOUR, with their final show on June 20 in Missouri. Sly Jr. and JackPal opened the show.

Little image set the scene for their set with eerie visuals projected onto what seemed like a hologram fan at the back of the stage. They kicked right into “MR. CYNICAL,” a song from their newest album, KILL THE GHOST. The music immediately had a different feel live than on a recording— it has more body to it live and easily fills the room in a way that a recording just isn’t able to replicate. The lighting and theatrics of the live performance add to the music’s body by elevating little image’s set from a simple concert to a full-scale production. The band managed to bring arena-level high-quality production to a 350-person-capacity room, which immediately set the standard for all future acts at The Echo.

After playing a fan favorite from KILL THE GHOST, “NOVOCAINE,” and another favorite from the band’s SELF TITLED album, “BLUE,” Simmons introduced the next song of the set, “DON’T MATTER.” Making sure that the crowd was ready for the groove anthem of the night, Simmons told the crowd, “You better move around for this one. Y’all ready?” Heeding his request, audience heads bobbed, and bodies swayed as best they could in the cramped pit.  

More fan favorites, “EGO” and “RUN FOR FOREVER,” also graced the setlist before the band introduced “ALWAYS ENDS” as one of their own favorite songs. 

After playing, “SHOTS I’M NOT CALLING,” from KILL THE GHOST, little image did something that is usually reserved for large-scale shows: they walked over to their make-shift B-stage for a two-song set in the crowd. Wanting to give the back of the crowd a front row seat, the band walked through the crowd to a small setup of a synth, keyboard, and a drum pad in a circle before playing a chilled-out version of “OUT OF MY MIND” and “REAL ESTATE.” 

This new, chilled-out version of “OUT OF MY MIND” should become a setlist staple at every little image tour moving forward. With this intimate setting, they were able to breathe new life into one of their most popular songs. 

During the last minute of “REAL ESTATE,” Simmons and Walters returned to the stage— this time with Simmons on drums— while Bruner stayed back on keys and finished off the song from the B-stage. Audience members’ heads were darting back and forth between the main stage and the B-stage, not being able to decide which spectacle to watch as both were as captivating as each other. It would be remiss not to mention that Bruner, while demonstrating both his drumming and piano capabilities during the show, was playing the show with one arm in a brace. And his performance, in no way, seemed to suffer, despite his injury. 

Before playing “THE RABBIT,” Simmons described the band’s process behind making and releasing the song. “It’s a meaningful song to us because throughout the process we just wanted to find the innocence of making music again,” Simmons said. “We wanted to make something that felt special to us, and that had substance. We live in such a weird time where you scroll past things so quickly, especially entertainment, music, and art. And we wanted to make something that you don’t just scroll past, something you can live with.”

They finished off the set with the title track of their newest album, “KILL THE GHOST.” Not letting the energy fall flat, they brought it back by playing their loudest and hardest. Simmons even jumped into the crowd to start a mosh pit in the audience for the last half of the song.

After seeing little image at the start of this tour in Boston last month, their confidence boost is strikingly apparent. Simmons is more talkative with the audience, and the rest of the band is visibly more comfortable on stage, all doing so without sacrificing their high-quality performance or iconic sound.

Little image is one of those bands that you absolutely need to see live. Their music is good online, but it isn’t comparable to being able to feel Walters’ bass in your throat as it reverberates through a venue’s sticky floor, Bruner’s skilled and highly passionate drumming, or Simmons’ distinct and soft, yet powerful vocals, enchanting you into a trance wherever you stand. While the KILL THE GHOST TOUR may be coming to an end in a few days, this is just the beginning of little image’s climb to alternative music glory.

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