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The Black Angels
Also Playing: Kurt Vile And The Violators and Shapes Have Fangs
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Briana Purser
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Fri Oct 30
9 pm
The Black Angels, Kurt Vile And The Violators, and Shapes Have Fangs at Mohawk Patio
The Black Angels’ breakout debut, Passover, was a feverish hallucination of Velvet-y drone and ’Nam-era paranoia, inspiring plenty of other bands to set their Wayback Machines for the seedy side of the ’60s. That long, strange trip continued with 2008's Directions To See A Ghost, another batch of haunting “hypno-drone”—a righteous fuzz of echoing vocals, effects-laden guitars, and doom-saying drums—that’s post-millennial anxiety exemplified, then run through several delay pedals. Coming off a tour with fellow menace-and-reverb acolytes The Raveonettes, the Angels play a Halloween Eve homecoming gig here with "Philly's Constant Hitmaker," Kurt Vile, whose recent Matador debut, Childish Prodigy, portrays a songwriter equally adept at cooing, wheezing, and snarling over shoestring shoegaze. Shapes Have Fangs' twisted roadhouse blues get things off to an appropriately trippy start. To win tickets to this event, email austinpromo@theonion.com
Mohawk Patio 912 Red River St, Austin, TX
The Black Angels’ breakout debut, Passover, was a feverish hallucination of Velvet-y drone and ’Nam-era paranoia, inspiring plenty of other bands to set their Wayback Machines for the seedy side of the ’60s. That long, strange trip continued with 2008's Directions To See A Ghost, another batch of haunting “hypno-drone”—a righteous fuzz of echoing vocals, effects-laden guitars, and doom-saying drums—that’s post-millennial anxiety exemplified, then run through several delay pedals. Coming off a tour with fellow menace-and-reverb acolytes The Raveonettes, the Angels play a Halloween Eve homecoming gig here with "Philly's Constant Hitmaker," Kurt Vile, whose recent Matador debut, Childish Prodigy, portrays a songwriter equally adept at cooing, wheezing, and snarling over shoestring shoegaze. Shapes Have Fangs' twisted roadhouse blues get things off to an appropriately trippy start. To win tickets to this event, email austinpromo@theonion.com
Updated 10/26/2009
