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Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]
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Friday, March 13th: Psych Fest 2 @ The Radio Room
Hey LA nerds heading to the SXSW Interactive conference (the tech one, it happens a week before the music one) going down March 13-17, you should go see Silver Lake’s Lower Heaven, along with The Black Angels, The Golden Dawn (performing their 1968 masterpiece Power Plant) and Woven Bones on the first night of the 2nd annual Psych Fest. Hell, you should probably just ditch the conference all together and just plant yourself at the Radio Room (508 E. 6th St.) all weekend, because Saturday and Sunday’s lineups are just as promising with bands like Dead Meadow, Wooden Shjips, Golden Animals, Indian Jewelry, A Place to Bury Strangers, The Vandelles, Miranda Lee Richards and a whole bunch more, scheduled to perform.
Lower Heaven who will stick around Austin for the following week have a couple more shows scheduled with their fellow Psych Fest performers, Dead Meadow and Golden Animals, as well as a SXSW show with Los Angeles’ Spindrift.
Releasing their debut full length, Ashes, earlier this year, Lower Heaven (whose musical backgrounds currently include; Spindrift, Languis, and Tristeza), have been steadily gaining attention with higher profile opening slots on shows with like-minded bands Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Black Angels, Dead Meadow and Darker my Love. Said to already be planning a sophomore release later this fall, Lower Heaven are wasting no time endearing themselves to audiences hungry for well executed psych-pop that doesn’t drown itself in drone.
MP3: Lower Heaven – Lose It All At Once
MP3: Lower Heaven – Knife
UPDATE: The Galaxy Theatre show has been canceled.
The Bronx will be heading out on a North American headlining tour beginning on March 23rd in Albuquerque, NM and stopping in Orange County on March 26th at The Galaxy Theatre, whose resurrection was recently announced. But according to the O.C. Register’s Ben Wener, The Bronx show, along with the other scheduled Galaxy concerts, may be “scrubbed” if Gary Folgner, who also owns the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, can’t bring the theatre back up to code in time.
This will be The Bronx’s first U.S. tour in support of their new album THE BRONX (III) that was released last November, see the full routing after the jump. Read more »
Tonight at Beta Level in Chinatown, the wonderfully weird, Bobb Bruno, will celebrate the release of his new ep, Dreamt On, out this week on the Los Angeles artist collective label, Vosotros.
Dreamt On is like an instrumental choo-choo train with six cars (tracks) and a crazy conductor in a bunny outfit (Bruno) ripping through Toontown. It’s easy to lose yourself in Bruno’s world, from the morning sunshine burst of title track to the lazy afternoon daze (lap steel courtesy of Nels Cline) of “Fairy Tale Ending” that eventually drops you off in some other fucked dimension to the to-be-continued ending of “Psychics” and “Microloop”, Dreamt On is a journey. Sit back and enjoy the trip.
TONIGHT: Bobb Bruno w/Keenhouse @ Beta Level (963 N. Hill Street) 8pm | FREE | 21+
Directed by Jeffrey McCarthy and produced by Pillar Pictures
Get hip to this band, seriously! Listening to Mack Winston and the Reflections self-titled ep, Reflections, is like jumping into the time machine and jettisoning back to the 70’s and rocking out to some Bolan, Petty or Lynne.
MP3: Mack Winston and the Reflections – Dark, Dark Night
Sunday, February 22nd: Mack Winston and the Reflections @ Cinespace (6356 Hollywood Blvd.) 11pm | $5 | 18+
Wednesday, February 25th Mack Winston and the Reflections w/Izzy The Eskimo, Vietnam Cowboy @ 3 Clubs (1123 Vine St.) 9pm | FREE | 21+
Long Beach’s Tijuana Panthers, who may be known best by those outside of Long Beach, for their song “Redheaded Girl” that was covered by The Soft Pack (formerly The Muslims (the last time I am going to type that)) for Stereogum’s Decomposed Sessions, will be trekking down PCH tonight to meet up with San Diego’s Crocodiles for a free show at La Cave in Costa Mesa.
Crocodiles are a two piece made up of ex-Prayers members, Brandon Welchez (Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower) and Charles Rowland (Some Girls, The Vultures), who will release their debut LP, Summer Of Hate, on April 28th via Fat Possum Records.
MP3: Tijuana Panthers – Don’t Shoot Your Guns
MP3: Crocodiles – Neon Jesus
TONIGHT: Tijuana Panthers & Crocodiles @ La Cave (1695 Irvine Ave, Costa Mesa) 10pm | FREE | 21+