“After several years spent mapping the outer fringes of modern psychedelia, Los Angeles collective Hooveriii (pronounced “Hoover Three”) return with Manhunter — a rich and expansive fifth album that smartly ties together the raw urgency of their earlier work with the more cinematic ambitions they’ve been gradually embracing. If their self-titled debut in 2018 introduced a lo-fi garage-psych outfit with a taste for sci-fi aesthetics and fuzzy repetition, it was 2021’s Water for the Frogs that marked a pivot toward a broader, more kosmische-inflected sound.

That shift continued with A Round of Applause in 2022 — a bright, synth-heavy, glam-adjacent set that pushed the band’s melodic instincts to the fore — and again with Pointe in 2023, a somewhat more introspective affair that explored mood and atmosphere over immediacy. Each of these records showed a band in transition, growing more confident in their ability to fuse Motorik rhythms, space rock textures, and big pop hooks into something uniquely theirs.

Now, with Manhunter, have Hooveriii fully arrived — drawing together all those disparate threads into a coherent, fully-formed vision? A casual first listen tells me that it’s a record that reaches backward as much as it pushes forward, tapping into 70s prog, glam, krautrock, post-punk, and new age to build something dense but not impenetrable, ambitious but never overwrought. It’s also, at its core, a rock record — unafraid of riffage, melody, or swagger.” –staticsoundsclub

Versatile musician and artíste extraordinaire Briggance is making a rare (lately) appearance out of the musical studio dungeon to perform a solo event. Come see what the master ceramacist and Tin Foil drum master has cooked up for this one!

Are they too new to be called a supergroup? Well, yeah, techically. Dori is the new band on the town made up of Zoe Hecker of ZEM, sound engineer and keyboard prolific Kolton Sarate, Gordy Russ of Tigra and Taylor. Funky post-punk art rock poppy stuff.

The legendary Rich Hansen is spinnin’ wax!