6:00pm doors. $14 adv., $17 door. 21+
Former Bay Area denizen now full-time Australia resident, Michael Beach, is back on the scene touring the US as a trio in support of his latest and greatest full-length Goner Records album, Big Black Plume. Don’t miss this riveting and cathartic live performer at the top of his game.
“If you’ve given up hope of finding anthemic-yet-arty guitar rock for grown-ups that doesn’t condescend to your intelligence in either direction, add Michael Beach’s Big Black Plume to your wish list. A Melbourne underground stalwart originally from California, Beach has been releasing sick psych-tinged shit for years—just listen to the modular synth majesty that is Drain Brugs. On Big Black Plume, he enlists similarly-minded melders of rock and the avant-garde (members of Tropical Fuck Storm, Comets on Fire, the Dirty Three, and The Necks all make appearances) to help whip up a rollicking longform opus free of musical inhibitions and beholden to no rules. Here you’ll find crunchy riffs dissolving into brainy experimental passages, blousy love songs brushed with resonant electronic elements, spare piano melodies undercut with thin currents of drone, and rousing hard rock ballads with a zillion guitar overdubs melting into shimmering puddles of sunbaked psychedelia. Tune in, turn on, turn it up.” - Bandcamp “Cool Band Alert” July 2025
https://www.instagram.com/michaelbeach___/
https://michaelbeach.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-U4gb1rQao (official music video for “Poison Dart”, first single from Big Black Plume)
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