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Night Beats+Mirror Mirror+Von the Baptist
The Observatory
Spokane, WA
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Theirs is a bastard blues, contorted and distorted into new shapes for 21st century wastoids  once tasted never forgotten. This is music to melt your sorry little minds.
Make no mistake: their new album Who Sold My Generation sounds like it has been created against a backdrop of burning Stars and Stripes flags and with the whiff of napalm hanging in the air  an alternative universe where Helter Skelter is the national anthem and Charlie Manson is still on the loose. Acid-test heaviness is Night Beats currency, but this is no out-right nostalgia trip either. Instead of Nixon and Vietnam, Night Beats have their own epoch of God and guns and bombs and drones to rail againstor flee from. Besides, bad vibrations, blues jams and id-shattering explorations are timeless pursuits  why shouldnt todays young generation be allowed to take a ride down the slippery spiral that sits within the centre of each of us?
On their third album  and first for Heavenly Recordings  Night Beats perhaps most recall their Texan forefathers and psyche-rock originators 13th Floor Elevators at their 69 peak, just before The Man busted young Roky Erickson and dragged him to the psyche ward for barbaric doses of shock treatment. These boys represent the best of the Lone Star States flipside  that vast dusty hinterland of the soul where its easy to drift off the map and reinvent yourself as part of the long lineage of creative cowboys who prefer psychotropics to rodeo riding, guitars rather than firearms.
Old cowboy culture is alive and well in Texas, says frontman Danny Lee Blackwell. I grew up with Texan mythology all around us, so as a band its instilled in our blood. My Dad didnt wrangle steers but he did pick cotton when he was young. But then cities like Austin and Dallas, where we spent most of our time growing up, have a real sense of musical history that runs deep, so we feed off legacy that too.
From the Elevators and The Red Krayola on to pre-ZZ Top band The Moving Sidewalks, Butthole Surfers and The Black Angels  whose record label Reverb Appreciation Society have released Night Beats  and a clutch of other early cult bands besides (Bubble Puppy, Shivas Headband and the Golden Dawn, anyone?), Texas has always been a prime breeding ground for such outlaw music. The Elevators were one of the reasons I decided to become a singer and form the group, says Blackwell. I loved their attempt to play R n B music, but from a distinctly Texan approach. Id say they have profoundly influenced the group, but its now our job to take it to another level in a new age.
It took a cross-country relocation to instigate their formation. Night Beats were born when frontman Danny Lee Blackwell upped stick from Dallas to Seattle, Washington and was soon joined by childhood friend James Traeger. James got me a copy of Ginsbergs Howl when I was around 15 and it changed everything, remembers Blackwell of his old friend. We grew up together and once he moved up to Seattle we did everything together there too. I wanted to try out a different place, a new city, where no one knew my music and there wasnt anything remotely similar going on. Coming from Dallas, Austin seemed like the obvious choice but I needed something more. Seattle was at one time the home to people we love like Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix and Quincy Jones so I didnt feel too disconnected.
The two existed initially as a guitar and drums duo, named in honour of Sam Cookes 1963 album Night Beat, before fellow Jakob Bowden Dallas resident joined on bass after a stint in Austin. Filtering a collective love of pioneering artists as disparate as Buddy Holly, Fela Kuti, Etta James, James Brown and Leonard Cohen, Night Beats dropped a clutch of singles, split-singles, cassette release and two albums  their self-titled debut in 2011 followed by Sonic Bloom in 2013  as well as featuring on all manner of compilation albums that document the cutting edge of the head-bending, modern counter-cultural US underground.
Night Beats hit the road too, touring extensively with Roky Erickson, The Zombies, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Strange Boys, Black Lips, The Growlers and The Black Angels in North America, Europe, Israel, South Africa and Australia.
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The Observatory (Ver)
15 South Howard Street
Spokane, WA 99201
United States

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Música > Indie

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