TOBACCO! They started with two people dressed in masks and robes. Theatrics, check. Live drums, check. Bone rattling bass, check. Hooks that had me whistling after the show, check. Dexter was there too, so, check on celebrity sighting too!

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It was easy to forget that there was a band onstage during tonight’s
Troubadour set by Black Moth Super Rainbow. With what may be best described as a half-man, half-ape prancing around in the foreground and an array of absurd videos projecting on a screen behind them, the four players seemed content to labor in relative obscurity. Their fuzzy riffs, heavy beats and vocoder-ized vocals were a fitting—although perhaps a bit homogeneous—soundtrack to the psychedelic sideshows that competed for the audience’s
attention.

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