Barn Owl drop by Levee Club to give us the latest demonstration of why all psych-rock bands from San Francisco are brilliant. Thanks for this Thrill Jockey website: Evan Caminiti (guitars, vocals) and Jon Porras (guitars, vocals, drums, harmonium) met in San Francisco in 2006 and immediately started playing music together. Over the next four

Words: Amy Chapman Having been named by Rolling Stone as a “New Guitar God” and working alongside the likes of Eddie Veddar, Dave Grohl and Timabaland, Kaki King has earned a deservedly huge reputation as a gifted guitarist and songwriter across her ten year long career. Its difficult to predict the kind of set King

It feels not so long ago that Bill Callahan enchanted a packed, hot and very sweaty Lido in August 2009 in support of that year’s album, the lush Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle. All this talk of Apocalypse had me worried about old Bill but I’m just glad he’s still around and willing to drop

Alan and Richard Bishop present The Brothers Unconnected at Monarch tonight as the second installment of the series Since The Devil Is Gone I Mostly Feel Lonely. The evening will open with a 40 minute film about Charles Gocher, Sun City girl’s drummer who passed away in 2007. Remember these nights at Monarch start at

The best ones are the ones you get told to listen to cos someone thinks you’ll love it and, of course, you forget to or mean to but don’t get around to it and keep mean to get around to it but the cat needs to be fed or something else and it all ends

Strange Forces headline this edition of Noiseklln fresh off their recent European Tour in support of their self-titled debut EP which was released in April on new label Under Fire Is Born. Your favourite psych-rock band are ready to blow you all away again as summer swings into action and everyone’s out and about looking

Ty Segall is a one-man garage rock machine…literally. Lashing out garage tunes while pounding a bass drum isn’t as easy as it sounds, especially when you howl as loudly as this young man does. Luckily for us he’s assembled a band around him for his recent tours so those of you who were wowed by

The Feminists release their debut album D.A.R.K. in true down n’ dirty style in Friedrichshain in Rigaer Strasse’s Abstand. They sometimes like to wear dresses live, short, tight dresses mind you…oh yes, it’s an all boys band by the way. Boys in dresses, whoo-hoo. Ladies this is the gig for you this Saturday night. Here’s

Pierced Arrows are Fred and Toody Cole of seminal garage band Dead Moon along with Kelly Halliburton on drums and make it to Crystal Club for what promises to be a rocker of an evening. It’s a black leather jacket type of evening folks. Heroes in Europe, they’re the kind of band that fills Columbia

One of the most prolific, and just plain awesome, garage bands in the world, Thee Oh Sees make it to Berlin for a gig at the ever-splendid West Germany!