Mistletone

“Wooden Shjips combine and update the transportative force of the Velvet Underground’s no-blues drone, Can’s unrelenting pulse and the holy garage-rock fire of the 13th Floor Elevators into a compact, wrapped-in-reverb trip of vintage transcendence and forward thrust.” – DAVID FRICKE (ROLLING STONE)

San Francisco trance-rock quartet WOODEN SHJIPS return to our shores, bringing back their trance-inducing, desert-fried, maximum-volume rock ‘n’ roll. While indebted to the psych music of the ‘60s and mid-‘70s, electric Neil Young, and even the induced travels of Spacemen 3, the Shjips’ music is in every way their own. Earlier this year, Wooden Shjips unleashed West, a brand new LP packed full of visceral, forbidding rock, on Thrill Jockey with a local release on Fuse. On that LP and in their live shows, the Shjips draw power through stretching-to-infinity repetition and their ability to turn crunchy 1970s boogie-rock into isolation-chamber space-out fare. This one is going to be good folks, bring your earplugs and your Visine.

WOODEN SHJIPS: SAT MAR 24 @ Oxford Art Factory w/- The Laurels + DCM. Tickets on sale now through Moshtix.