Weird Stalk, Too at Temple

Weird Stalk, Too. It was weird. Thanks Whitehaus. Here's hoping for Wired Stalk Tree.

More (and bigger) photos on Flickr. Especially Cave Bears because their set was utter insanity.


Forbes Graham


Double Awake


Kid Romance


Cave Bears



Many Mansions


Grey Skull


Ashcan Orchestra


Blevin Blectum


Preggy Peggy & The Lazy Babymakers

Prince Rama, CAVE, The Needy Visions, Jealousy, Lord Jeff, SKIMASK at The Temple

The Temple: New legit venue in JP, actual stage, real lighting, pretty big, sounds decent, easy parking/close-ish to T, booked mostly by Bodies Of Water, definitely a place to keep an eye on for weird shows

SKIMASK: Lightning Bolt trio except replace bass with fucked FXd vocals and add a dude rambling stream of consciousness shit sounding like Magic People

Lord Jeff: sloppy garage pop, low key jangly fun

Jealousy: 1 wacky dude from SF playin noisy looped post punk gaze with a crazy getup and strobe lights, actually pretty awesome

The Needy Visions: way better live than on record, tons of fun old school catchy '60s psych garage jams

CAVE: fucking killer new wave psych drone rock à la Oneida, riffage galore, so so amazing live

Prince Rama: Eastern space psych with crazy drums & electronics overload, vocals from another time, brought out the Indian dancing girl, ancient double 16mm projectors throwing bizarre visuals up on the wall

As always, more photos on Flickr.

SKIMASK


Lord Jeff


Jealousy


The Needy Visions


CAVE



Prince Rama

The Skull Defekts - The Temple (Important, 2009)

The Skull Defekts - Waving


When I saw The Skull Defekts play at PA's Lounge last year, they changed me. I didn't realize it at the time, of course. But as the days and weeks progressed, I knew there was something missing in my life. That was because most of the material they played live hadn't been released yet. But I needed to hear to this music again. There was a certain je ne sais quoi that could only be achieved when listening to "Waving" or "Six Sixes" or any other song off of The Temple.

The Skull Defekts have made a rock record unlike any other I've heard. It's sexmagic. It's powerthrill. It's everything a rock record should be. I had no idea what I was missing until I heard this. The percussion is so tribal and propulsive and the guitars are buzzing electric raw. This is the record you crank all the way up and fucking pound your chest to. The Temple is something that deserves it's own place on your shelf, perhaps even on a pedestal set atop your mantle.

Here is a video I shot of them playing "Six Sixes" last October. If and when they come back to the US, this is proof that you need to see them.