Lucent L’Amour comes around once a year—a Burning Man reunion for some, a Valentine’s themed dance party for others. This Feb 13, N.A.S.A. & Lazer Sword add the fresh-faced electro to Bassnectar’s social experimentation and Stanton Warriors’ breakbeat veteran status. And of course, Lucent Dossier’s wandering marionettes and stilt people will breathe fire in your [...]

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We flopped happily far up front at mainstage as lengthening shadows set the mood for My Bloody Valentine. Management was handing out earplugs at the gate and small wonder, since toward the end of “You Made Me Realise,” guitarists Kevin Shields and Bilinda Butcher (the latter impassive as a Xanax-bombed soccer mom) loosed a gorgeous fifteen-minute-plus feedback annihilation that was easily the loudest thing I’ve ever heard in decades of doting on amplified music. It was less a solo than a hideous (and hideously effective) evocation of nightmare; a compressed and aestheticized variation on the opening bombardment at the Somme, another historic din that produced few actual causalties.

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