CONFIRMED 4/7
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PSYCHIC ILLS (Sacred Bones… FACEBOOK)
NIGHT BEATS (Garagey Psych, Trouble in Mind… FACEBOOK)
+1 , TBA
at Golden West
From Wikipedia;
Psychic Ills is an experimental rock/psychedelic rock band from New York, USA. The current line-up consists of Tres Warren(guitar, vocals), Elizabeth Hart(bass), Dan Wise(guitar) , Brandon Davis (keyboard) and Chris Millstein (drums). Their first full length album, Dins, was released in early 2006 with the painting, “Three Hairs and Shadow” by German Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell as the cover art.
The Village Voice named them Best Psych Rock Band in their 2006 Best of NYC issue.
In early 2008 they performed in Marfa, Texas for the opening of the Hello Meth Lab In The Sun art installation, and at the Contemporary Art Museum in Bordeaux France for the IAO festival. In 2009 they released Mirror Eye and toured the US with Butthole Surfers.
For 2011’s Hazed Dream, the band moved to Sacred Bones and opted for a more streamlined, accessible approach.
Members of Psychic Ills have been involved in various other projects. Elizabeth Hart plays bass with Effi Briest and performs with the improvisational dance and music ensemble Skint. Tres Warren collaborates with visual artist Taketo Shimada as Messages and with Drew McDowall of Coil as Compound Eye. Former drummer Brian Tamborello participated in the Boredoms Boadrum projects and played drums on Mike Wexler’s record Sun Wheel.
From Get Bent;
“As the first notes of this album began to play, my face automatically contorted in pleasure. It probably wasn’t very pretty, but I really don’t care. Every part of my body began to bop about in its awkward little way, and I began to jam. If King Khan and the Black Lips and Ty Segall somehow were able to conceive a musical baby, this would most assuredly be it. Night Beats manage to be a soulful and psychedelic yet surfy brand of garage rock. These kids are based from Seattle now, but 2/3 of the band originally hails from Texas. It’s easy to pick up the 13th Floor Elevators references, along with several other Texan psych staples. It was hard for me to pick just one offering for you, dear listeners, because every song on the album highlighted another facet of their insane talent. Night Beats supplied a psychedelic odyssey that clocked in at 7:12, and then offset it with several bangers under the 3:00 mark. Standouts include “Puppet On A String”, “Dial 666”, “The Other Side”, and “Halucinojenny.” Enjoy the melty, fuzzy, face-contorting goodness”
The War on Women record release show w/ Alice Bag, Donna Lethal & Big Mouth has been moved to Wednesday 2/8
RSVP HERE
CONFIRMED 2/19
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+++NOTE: SUNDAY SHOWS ARE DOORS AT 9, NOT 10+++
TIX; CLICK HERE
Natty Child (Infinity Cat/ Burger Records… FACEBOOK)
Slow Jerks (Those Guys!)
Nightmare Boyzzz (FACEBOOK)
Habibi (FACEBOOK)
$6/ 9pm
Flier by Jake Berry, click to RSVP
CONFIRMED! 3/3
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Get Tix; http://sonar.thundertix.com/orders/new?performance_id=97944
Seminal garage punk label Big Neck Records is bringing a killer fest to Sonar March 3rd! We’re thrilled to have a hand in what is sure to be a total BANGER, featuring;
- THE SPITS (FACEBOOK )
- T.V. GHOST (FACEBOOK)
- LIVIDS (FACEBOOK)
- HOLLYWOOD (FACEBOOK)
- MURDER (FACEBOOK)
- TREMORS ii (FACEBOOK)
- THE PLATES (FACEBOOK)
- STOP WORRYING & LOVE THE BOMB (FACEBOOK)
- WHITE WHALE
A 2nd poster for this show, this one by Sara Tomko! Click to RSVP
Poster by Noel Danger (nee Leon Cornbread), click to RSVP!
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CONFIRMED! 2/22
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Amen Dunes (Sacred Bones, FACEBOOK)
Mountains (Thrill Jockey… FACEBOOK)
+ 1
$$/ 10pm
From WFMU;
“Amen Dunes is not something you put on to just listen to. It is an invitation to possession. Somewhat in the vein of Exuma, Death in June, or Sam Ashley, Damon McMahon (the “mind” behind Amen Dunes) seems to have an intimate relationship with songwriting as a medium to conjure spirits and recording as a way to capture and exorcise them. His monumental last full length, DIA, was written and recorded during a period of intense seclusion in a cabin in upstate New York in 2006. When I asked Damon about how this isolation affected the recording process, he admitted to feeling presences and sometimes resorted to cranking up the volume as loud as he could to “drive the demons away”.
But whereas DIA is a castle protected by these loud, electric of walls of distortion and reverb, Murder Dull Mind is more of a watchtower turned inward, barricaded by no amplifiers, fenced in by no haloes of effect pedals (save for some sparse interjections), a lone shivering structure of acoustic guitars and raw voices rendered tough by the sun and soft with rain, skeletal remains of a panopticon that sees all but suffers invisibly. It is rooted in unmistakeable darkness, but also retains a pensive and wistful detachment that allows it to breathe and reflect on itself, hovering in this state of half-embodiment almost like a ghost hovering above it’s grave.(…) But as with any good possession music, Murder Dull Mind also exorcises those same demons it allows to take hold of it.” - (full review; CLICK TO READ THE FULL REVIEW)
