Posts Tagged ‘Entrance’

Show Review: Entrance Entranced

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

 

TEXT BY: SASHA LEE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY: JENNIFER ZILIOTTO 

Psychedelic sweethearts ENTRANCE recently played the Troubadour last Thursday, January 15th.

For those of you who have not heard or seen them, this Los Angeles based power trio deliver a seemingly otherworldly channeling of the blues through their uniquely fashioned rainbow-prismatic monocle. But not just blues in a watered down, regurgitated game of telephone way- Entrance harkens back to the early, Spiritualist roots of Blues music, when you still had your chance to sell your soul at the crossroads or deliver prophetic sermons with it. Think of Jimi Hendrix transcendentally meditating on the 1920’s mysticism of Blind Lemon Jefferson’s “Low Down Hoo Doo blues,” and you have something close to Entrance’s unearthly sound.

 

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Upcoming Shows: Entrance plays SF Nov. 23, LA Nov. 26th

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Photo by: Sasha Eisenmen

Photo by: Sasha Eisenman

Psychedelic sweethearts ENTRANCE will be playing an all ages show at the Great American  Music Hall in San Francisco on November 23rd, beginning at 8pm and The Airliner on November 26th- $10, and $5 for members 18 and up.

For those of you who have not heard or seen them, this Los Angeles based power trio deliver a seemingly otherworldly channeling of the blues through their uniquely fashioned rainbow-prismatic monocle. But not just blues in a watered down, regurgitated game of telephone way- Entrance harkens back to the early, Spiritualist roots of Blues music, when you still had your chance to sell your soul at the crossroads or deliver prophetic sermons with it. Think of Jimi Hendrix transcendentally meditating on the 1920’s mysticism of Blind Lemon Jefferson’s “Low Down Hoo Doo blues,” and you have something close to Entrance’s unearthly sound.

Watch: “Grim Reaper Blues”

Akin to a moving Edwardian or Victorian Spirit photo, updated with morphing mirrored visages of 1960’s psychedelia, to the ethereally haunting riff that could, well…entrance the dead.

Interview with Clean Air Clear Stars Founder, Tommy Dietrick

Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Tommy Dietrick, ex-guitarist of Brian Jonestown Massacre and current member of Sky Parade, recently took the time to discuss his inspiration behind founding that sweetheart-of-the-rodeo desert festival: Clean Air Clear Stars. The festival features a stunning line up of mostly Los Angeles based, psychedelic-inspired musicians. Last year’s line up included such mind-expanding favorites as Entrance, Spindrift, Gram Rabbit and beyond, while this year showcases third eye Titans Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Black Angels and Dead Meadow. Be forewarned: this is not another vapid hipster street fair: the entire event is designed to raise consciousness of global warming, with proceeds going to Global Inheritence, a creative activist company.  

For those who haven’t attended the event, the three day festival takes place in the truly stunning terrain of Joshua Tree National Monument– a sweeping wilderness Gram Parsons and Keith Richards would go to to get high, pray to strange rock formations, and watch UFO’s sail by in the ethereally bright desert sky. Two decades earlier, the landscape’s tumblin’ tumbleweeds also served as a backdrop to the likes of Roy Rogers’ sharp-shootouts and other classic Western dramas.  In a third wave of interpretation, Dietrick appropriately situated this one of a kind gathering in a place a little bit country, a little rock n’ roll–making Clean Air Clear Stars the scene to a next generation of creative expression.     

 

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