Halcyon Magazine

Friends Mac Winston & The Reflections will be playing Bardot this Saturday, February 7th.

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.

Im glad one dude chose a broom instead of the more obvious iconographical influences of sweet axes & sweet shreds

Thanks to Steve over at Tee Pee, I just learned that Annihilation Time are hitting tour, starting on the east coast on Nov. 28th. These dudes have a sweaty beer-soaked Orange County punk Black Flag/Adolescents kinda vibe, mixed with some serious classic rock Thin Lizzy inspiration, but on cocaine and way sped up. The unusual combination of the two influences makes for some serious ass heavy music. They sound like they haven’t showered in about a month, make their own alcohol in a bathtub and will screw/have already screwed your girlfriend. Its only nuclear waste but I like it!

 Check their myspace for tour dates.

Listen To: