Interpol Performing a couple nights around So. Cal. before hitting the Coachella stage this year, Interpol played just a short drive up the beautiful coast at UCSB. Hey, it’s not every night you go to see a band in a gym.  But these guys can pull it off.  With an ever-changing setlist, we were treated [...]

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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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ian o’phelan

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