The Warlocks go deep.
Where will you find the area's most discerning drone/psych-rock aficionados tonight? At Alex's Bar in Long Beach, where Los Angeles' Warlocks and LB denizens Magic Lantern will be setting their FX boxes on STUN, PHASE, FLANGE, etc. The Warlocks come off like Brian Jonestown Massacre's heavier, trippier younger siblings and with more Spacemen 3 records in their collections. They combine dreamy melodies with hypno-mantric jamming, generating a potent, all-over aural buzz.
Hear dozens of covers of Brian Jonestown Massacre songs by artists from all over the world here.
Obsessive is as obsessive does. You know Newport Beach-born BJM leader Anton Newcombe is eating this up...
Below is an instructive snippet from the documentary Dig!
The Vandelles, LSD and the Search for God, Stevenson Ranch Davidians
January 12, 2008
The Prospector
Better Than: Staring at your shoes while listening to Jesus and Mary Chain’s Darklands.
Download: “Swell to Heaven” by the Vandelles.
The most striking thing about Stevenson Ranch Davidians is their female bassist: she plays sitting down and uses her bare feet to press pedals on her Hammond Midi Pedalboard. Otherwise, this SoCal quartet’s psych-pop shoegazery stays stuck in a laggard
It's getting to the point where the idea of the Coachella lineup is actually more appealing than whatever the eventual Coachella lineup will be, even if the actual lineup is really impressive. It's like Spock said, "having is not such a pleasing thing as wanting."So yeah, still no official Coachella bill, but a relatively entertaining fake one has made the rounds, with a mix of heavily rumored names (Paul McCartney, The Killers, Fleet Foxes), reasonable estimates (The Knux, She & Him, Yeasay
'When I go to the strip club I feel like a boy in a candy storeI taste all the flavors that are there and thats how I like it. Why limit yourself to one race? But also, why go out of your race? Be yourself and be genuine
