Download: The Black Angels “Doves”

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DJ Short Shorts (the voice of L.A. RECORD radio!) will be DJing at the Clean Air Clear Stars party at Spaceland tonight with the Black Angels, Sky Parade, the first Swoon 23 show in L.A. in like ten years and more! Info below and the fest itself starts tomorrow!

The Black Angels || Listen

Local tripsters the Black Angels bring the aura of mid-1966 – the drilling guitars of early Velvet Underground shows, the raga inflections of late-show Fillmore jams, the acid-prayer stomp of Austin avatars the 13th Floor Elevators – everywhere they go, including the levitations on their second album, Directions to See a Ghost (Light in the Attic). Mid-Eighties echoes of Spacemen 3 and the Jesus and Mary Chain also roll through the scoured-guitar sustain and Alex Maas’ rocker-monk incantations. But he knows what time it is. “You say the Beatles stopped the war,” Maas sings in “Never/Ever.” “They might’ve helped to find a cure/But it’s not over.” Even so, this medicine works wonders. – Rolling Stone

with:
Sky Parade || Listen
Hopewell
Swoon 23
Very Special Guests
DJ Kelsey “Short-Shorts” spinning

Tickets for the Pre-Party at Spaceland:

You can also buy tickets for the Clean Air Clean Stars Festival right here:

8:30 pm / $8 / 21+