The Pharmacy is back! Sort of. Over a year ago, the poppy, sloppy, fun punk-rock band left their longtime Pacific Northwest home for the greener pastures (and tasty beignets) of New Orleans. The quartet has returned to begin a post-Thanksgiving West Coast tour to promote their new CD.
It's not a surprise that on their new record, Weekend, the band continues to move even further away from their basement-punk beginnings, experimenting with a more mellow, sometimes psychedelic sound laced with sweet harmonies by way of 1960s doo-wop.
Golden Triangle is a band of three girls and three boys who play music that’s loud, spooky, and will make you aroused and ambitious when you experience it live. I guess they’re psychedelic or garage or something. Maybe post punks? They have two singing ladies who sound like soulful ghosts. In general the music is like being in a fun haunted house and the ghosts are cool but you never totally relax because, I mean, they’re supernatural beings.
Born in the East Village, Electric Tickle Machine is the musical intersection of 4 of the many citizens of the city of New York in Summer 2008. On Blew It Again, ETM's debut, the band unleash an infectious wave of oscillating synthesizers, dirty guitar jangle and rhythmic thump. Recorded 6 months after their inception the album is a hi- exploration of the rock and roll cannon through a post-Warholian, Pop Art lens. The album's 10 tracks, title, and cover art hint that they have their mind set on a bigger joke. ETM are prepping to widely release Blew It Again in June.
Live, audiences are quick to partake in the band's gleeful madness.
Sheer energy and delivery, ETM shows are prone to nudity, marriage proposals, crowd-sur ng, and multiple encores.
