Halcyon Magazine

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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BY DANIEL HARJU

Fool’s Gold is a 13-piece Afro-Beat jam band from Echo Park, California. This exceptional live band somehow always gets the hipster audiences up and dancing. Their shows often turn into regular hoedowns, but minus the hay and the honky-tonk. Maybe it’s their celebratory mix of African sounds and hippie rain-dance jams, singer Luke Top’s Hebrew lead-vocals or their Kumbaya chants? Whatever their alchemic secrets are, I love it!

Here’s a video for their Surprise Hotel:

Don’t miss Fool’s Gold when they play at the Echo on December 21 and at the Troubadour on January 17. Bring your dancing shoes, your moccasins or just go barefoot.