We’e halfway through the list now. Who made it? Read on and find out, my friend.
#15: Public Practice at Chicago’s Hideout – This was probably the closest I’ll get to seeing WALL live, and it was well worth the trip and risking the snowstorm on the ride home. Public Practice played their entire debut EP, Distance Is a Mirror, and sounded like they’d been playing together for years.
#14: MIEN at Levitation Austin – This was the first live show of the psychedelic supergroup, and bass / sitar player Rishi Dhir told my wife and I earlier in the day that they were nervous about premiering the material from their debut record. He had nothing to worry about, because they nailed it. Their set was one of the highlights of the festival for us.
#13: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at Chicago’s Riviera Theatre – It was packed to the gills, humid outside (to the point of fog obscuring the tops of buildings) and inside, loud, and trippy. In other words, it was everything you’d want from a KGATLW show.
#12: Radar Men from the Moon at Levitation France – This was the last set we saw in Angers, and it was a solid set of psychedelic electro from a band that normally plays guitars and drums. We weren’t sure what to expect from them, and they about floored us.
#11: Flamingods at Levitation France – These guys swapped instruments so many times on stage that we lost track of what normally played what. They unloaded a fierce, funky set of Middle Eastern-twinged psychedelia that was top-notch.
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