FEELS
Schedule
Thu Jul 29 2021 at 09:00 pm
Location
The Echo | Los Angeles, CA
FEELS @ The Echo | ALL AGES | SHOW 9PM | DOORS 8PMTix price:
Advance: $15 online + fees
Day of show: $17 online + fees / $18 Cash at door
FEELS
Hailing from the East side of Los Angeles, FEELS are known for their electrifying live shows and two highly regarded LPs: their first, s/t,produced by Ty Segall and released in 2016 on Castle Face Records, followed by 2019's Post Earth, released on Wichita Recordings and produced by Tim Green. Live, the band pulls no punches, delivering a potent blend of tight hooks, luscious melodies and satisfying chaos; energy that serves as the perfect vehicle for their lyrics, urging audiences to shake away apathy and be invigorated by a renewed sense of togetherness.
After all, as Pitchfork points out in their 8/10 review of Post Earth, "...polemical discourse and rock’n’roll fun are not mutually exclusive—and, if anything, they should encourage one another." As of 2020 the lineup features new member Cole Berliner of Kamikaze Palm Tree on guitar and vocals in addition to original members Laena M.I. (vocals, guitar), Amy Allen (bass, vocals) and Michael Rudes (drums).
Photo by Abby Banks
Support:
Grave Flowers and His Bongo Band
Los Angeles’ Grave Flowers Bongo Band’s sophomore LP “Strength of Spring” is an inverted pyramid balanced on the headstock of an acoustic guitar, a rainbow painted in campfire smoke, an endless staircase circling into the clouds. That acoustic guitar, perfectly captured here by Ty Segall’s excellently sere and close mic’d production, plays skeleton to these conjurors woolly grooves, and singer Gabe Flores’ thousand-yard moan keeps us guessing as to exactly where this wildebeest is headed. He pinions these far out tunes, which burst generously with shit-hot guitar leads, Stoogeseque sax squalls, and a gaggle of great eight-armed drum fills, with a flinty wrist-flicking heartbeat as the band turns from whimsy to nimble riffery on a dime, following that pied-piper six string jangling down many lovely rabbit-holes of melody and exploration. It’s obvious these guys play together a lot (the lineup shares two members with acclaimed space rockers Hoover III to boot) and the telepathy on display here is synapse-snappy. Coursing throughout is that note-pad filling, lighter raising, undefinable black magic that feels so rare these days….we dig it mightily and we think you will too, it’s out on Castle Face Records April 30th.
Oog Bogo
Weirdo bedroom pop in the So-Cal style of the 21st century — a bit of lo-fi, a funky ripple, some psyched-out post-wave...
Kevin Boog, the bassist for The Meatbodies, got up to this when no one else was around. Peeking inside, we get a trippy world wound up in songs that never stop moving and make our ears strain for more. Shifting speeds, chopping up and blending new wave funk and glam styles in an acid-wash with full production wack, making up a set of truly beyond out-there pop songs.
Working tactically backwards, OogBogo is a real live band, with Mike Kriebel, Thomas Alvarez, and Shelby Jacobson from around the way.
Inspired to jam by the sudden existence of a record, they’re bound to have an incalculable effect on OogBogo.
-Rian Murphy (Drag City)
Where is it happening?
The Echo, 1822 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, United States