The numbers are dwindling.
Only the devoted remain, and they are duly rewarded.
This San Francisco quintet have been making a stir of late with their campy surf-rock psychedelia.
Credit: Sahara Tent heats up during Sebastian Ingrosso’s set
Lee Ranaldo, the very important co-founder of the very importantSonic Youth, followed indoors.
Yep, hes still got it.
Take away those histrionics and all that was left were stiff R&B covers.
Did they actually conflate those three separate-but-closely-linked rock forms?
Yes, perhaps; Im not totally sure, but it was certainly fast and loud and post-something.
A hardcore show is supposed to be aborderline riot, not a theater piece.
Ushering the weekend to a close, wasGodspeed You!
This is the kind of band that music writers salivate over because theyre so wonderfully oblique and evocative.
Their set seemed to evoke Lucifer himself beckoning to the deepest, darkest regions of the subconscious.
It may sound like horror-show shtick, but in fact it was deeply unnerving.
Leaving at the end felt like climbing out from a kind of nightmare, shaken and transformed.
