The Black Angels
Schedule
Sat, 06 Sep, 2025 at 09:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
777 Valencia Street San Francisco CA 94110 | San Francisco, CA
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The best music reflects a wide-screen view of the world back at us, helping distill the universal into something far more personal. Since forming in Austin in 2004, The Black Angels have become standard-bearers for modern psych-rock that does exactly that, which is one of many reasons why the group’s most recent album, Wilderness of Mirrors, feels so aptly named. In the years since the band’s prior album, Death Song, and the two-plus years spent working on Wilderness of Mirrors, pandemics, political tumult and the ongoing devastation of the environment have provided ample fodder for the Black Angels’ signature sonic approach.
Wilderness of Mirrors expertly refines the Black Angels’ psychedelic rock attack alongside a host of intriguing sounds and textures. There are classic blasts of fuzzed-out guitars meant to simultaneously perk up the ears and jumpstart the mind, alongside melancholy, acoustic guitar-driven newfound experiments. Mellotron, strings, and other keyboards also play a more prominent role on Wilderness of Mirrors than ever before.
Even amidst these new experimentations, The Black Angels remain masterfully true to psych-rock forebears such as Syd Barrett, Roky Erickson, Arthur Lee and the members of the Velvet Underground, all of whom are namechecked on album highlight “The River.” “The Velvet Underground song ‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’ – that’s what every Black Angels album has been about,” says vocalist/bassist Alex Maas. “You can’t work out your struggles unless you bring them to the forefront and think about them. If we can all think about them, maybe we can help save ourselves.”
Since their 2004 self-titled debut, Pink Mountaintops have supplied an outlet for the more arcane
fascinations of Black Mountain frontman Stephen McBean. On Peacock Pools—Pink Mountaintops’ first
new music in eight years—the British Columbia-born singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist shares 12
songs sparked from his magpie-like curiosity for a wild expanse of cultural artifacts: the sci-fi body horror
of David Cronenberg, Disney Read-Along Records from the 1970s, early Pink Floyd and mid-career Gary
Numan, John Carpenter movies, Ornette Coleman live videos, a 1991 essay on the cult of bodybuilding
by postmodern feminist Camille Paglia. Featuring counterculture icons like Steven McDonald of Redd
Kross and Dale Crover of Melvins, Peacock Pools alchemizes those obsessions into a body of work with
its own enchanting power, the sonic equivalent of falling down a thousand rabbit holes at once and
landing somewhere gloriously strange.
If Black Mountain represents the darker side of singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Stephen
McBean's musical thinking, Pink Mountaintops is a vehicle for his brighter and more engaging ideas.
While both bands share McBean's fondness for trippy, psych-infused sounds, Pink Mountaintops avoid
the doom-inspired tone of Black Mountain to make room for a wider range of musical influences,
matched to lyrics that playfully deal with his various obsessions, from favorite musicians to the edges of
teen culture. McBean and his collaborators merged lo-fi production and arrangements with dashes of
lysergic Americana on their 2004 self-titled debut and 2006's Axis of Evol. 2014's Get Back filtered
McBean's melodic ideas through muscular rock guitars, and 2022's
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777 Valencia Street San Francisco CA 94110, 777 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110-1734, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
