About Dante's View

Dante’s View is a collaboration between JL “Pepe” Espada, a multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Northern California, and Stacy James, a guitarist and songwriter based in Southern California. The collaboration was born from mutual respect and admiration and a shared love for the desert, which is in one form or another an aesthetic platform for the music. Dante’s View defines itself as Cog Rock, short for Cognizant Rock, a hard rock subgenre that has stylistic and aesthetic foundation on the Desert Rock scene of Southern California, the lyrical awareness of Seattle's Grunge movement, and the DIY approach and fierce independence of the Dischord bands of Washington DC.