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Dark Meat at The Smell

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Recently I have been having a kind of crisis of faith. Not the religious kind, but rather a musical one, where I have been of been drained of any sort of enthuse over music. Thankfully Dark Meat had decided to go on a US tour just around this time and booked a show at the all ages diy venue, The Smell.

Dark Meat’s set last week at The Smell was completely revitalizing, belting through a 30 minute set that ranged from what could be best described as “a marching band on acid” or a “southern hippie tent revival”. I can’t even begin to imagine how the 11-piece group from Athens, GA does a full US tour where I bet they aren’t making more that $200 a night, and that’s probably a good night. But here they were playing Los Angeles to a small but extremely enthusiastic crowd that were just as happy as I was that they finally got see Dark Meat live.

For a taste of Dark Meat’s live set, goto Southern Shelter to download an entire one from a show at the 40 Watt earlier this year.

Download “Three Eyes Open” (mp3) from their excellent debut release, Universal Indians.

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Universal Indians is out now, get it from: Insound | Amazon | iTunes | eMusic