SPIRIT VINE, MI GU, WET AND WRECKLESS, AND SISTER CRAYON ON MONDAY MAR. 21ST AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ FREE/ 21+

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SPIRIT VINE, DARK MOON, RUMSPRINGA, AND DANTE VS. ZOMBIES ON MONDAY MAR. 14TH AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ FREE/ 21+

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SPIRIT VINE, STONE DARLING, THE SILENT COMEDY, AND DIRTY MAC ON MONDAY MAR. 7TH AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ FREE/ 21+

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Jacqueline Cingolani, all with acid-wracked moaning and uncontrollable stomping foot, converged on the surrounding crowd, pulling them towards her, perhaps in hopes that the epically tall and mulleted bassist would turn into some hallucinatory lizard grandfather monster and feed, while the guitars fuzzed flowers into the cosmic universe brain.

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Picture yourself on a boat on a river, riding on the wave of a musical crescendo as you’re taken by a hazy groove and the swell of an organ … and then the drugs take effect. The new EP from Los Angeles-based quintet Spirit Vine offers three psychedelically fueled tracks that synesthetically alter the senses and tantalize the ear’s taste buds.

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I always have time for another festival, especially an indoor festival at the soon to be dear departed Knitting Factory, so I was psyched for Longhair Illuminati on Sunday. There were over 15 bands in the three KF rooms, including a few of my favorites, so I figured I was good for four or five [...]

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The setting at The Unknown Theater was warm and artsy. The bands played on a high rise of stairs, part of the current set at The Unknown, where you can see an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth called The Sticking Place. The set involves 7,000 gallons of water held in a reservoir that was slowly leaking after the production prior to the bands performance. The lighting was set with red tones that glistened off of lead singer Jacquelinne Cingolani’s shiny gold and Indian (okay, Native American) feathers.

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