The Entrance Band
with Lights
- When
- Sun Feb 14, 2010
- Where
- The Independent
- Time
- Doors at 7:30pm, Show at 8pm
- Cost
- $13 - $15
- Tags
- Music, Other Music
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Description
The Entrance BandLos Angeles-based trio, The Entrance Brand, is a craft sprawling, virtuosic psychedelic rock that has earned them big-ups from Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who signed the crew to his Ecstatic Peace label. Frontman Guy Blakeslee spews wailing, guitar-heavy thunder as bandmates Paz Lenchantin and drummer Derek James keep the stoner-metal grooves chugging along nicely on epic tracks like 'Grim Reaper Blues, Pt. 2,' where Blakeslee shrieks and howls like a young Robert Plant. "We have these psychic resonances between us," says Blakeslee of his group. "I'm a trebly guitar and trebly-voiced singer and I need a heavy bass and sick drums. They both know what to come up with to give our music more depth."
Lights
Lights are known for their raucous wild live shows that swirl with soft colors and night shapes brought to you by Sophia Knapp, Linnea Vedder and Alana Amram. Once you’ve started spinning their new record, Rites (Drag City), you’ll understand the feeling. Any band that mutates the powers of Jimi Hendrix, unicorns, Stevie Nicks, glowsticks, Prince, Indians and cowboys,Yoko Ono, red wine, Jem and Beyonce into their own smoothly flowing sound, they’re acting from the heart. They were born in rhythm, chanting their message — but with every live show Lights are passing into a more encompassing sense of what their music can be, a collage of the old and the new, where the American East meets the American West in a sexy fairytale world of magic, mirrors and white light.
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