For decades now, Urban Dread has translated into urban bread for various Conejo Valley club owners. Wherever and whenever this feel-good reggae band performs, fans come out in droves.

The group kicks off its summer season tonight with a show at Padri's Martini Bar in Agoura Hills. After that, you can find the group there every other Friday.

Every Wednesday during the summer, the group will set up shop at Bogie's in Westlake Village, where even a dim bulb such as Fred C. Dobbs would realize that "gold, the kind that shimmers and shines on the necks of swell dames," has a soundtrack -- and that soundtrack would be Urban Dread. Read more »

The most popular band in the Conejo Valley - that would be Urban Dread - they have a new one that's self-titled and self-released and since these guys play 300 times a week in and around Agoura and Westlake, it should be no problem finding them and they'd doubtlessly be happy to sell you a copy. They have that typical mellow groove working and frontman Jason Bourne is a master at convincing scores of gorgeous blond women to dance. UD uses their reverential covers of "I'll Take You There" and "Land Down Under" to make something good all that much better.