Altered Zones

On Saturday, September 17th, Visitation Rites and Vibes Management present a night of deep moods and maximalist simplicity at Brooklyn's Shea Stadium. Witness a rare East Coast appearance by drone-driven San Francisco guitar duo Barn Owl after hearing the Branca and Chatham-inspired Noveller (New York's Sarah Lipstate) loop a single guitar into the sound of a dozen. Former GHQ guitar slinger Steve Gunn brings his minutely colored, raga-inspired blues-folk to the stage with drummer John Truscinski of X.O.4. renown, and Los Angeles singer/songwriter Universe opens the night with a mystery backing band. Visit Facebook for more info. --Emilie Friedlander, Visitation Rites

Noveller: Glacial Glow (Album Preview)

MP3: Barn Owl: "Turiya"

MP3: Gunn-Truscinski Duo: "B38"

MP3: Universe: "The Center of Information"

Join Visitation Rites' Los Angeles team this Saturday for a night of musical healing in a Chinatown home. Come early to potluck, and stay late to dance.  Additional sounds will be provided by DJ StareOfTreat (Matt Kruglinski) and special guests. (via Visitation Rites)

MP3: M. Geddes Gengras: "Light Up"

MP3: matthewdavid: "Fernwood Flask"

MP3: Universe: "I"

Gazing, Gazing, the second digi-LP from Los Angeles' Universe, is sprawling, cavernous and varied enough to be an entire universe unto itself-- albeit a half-synthetic one, built partly upon the human voice, and partly upon the primeval technological prostheses of the drum machine and the analog synth. Sure, synthesized tomorrowlands are nothing new to this world. But what if we all closed our eyes, emptied our minds, and imagined we were hearing one for the first time? "I" captures the blurry-eyed feeling of being born into the impossible silicon wonderland that Hunter John has dreamed up, blinking against a line of two-dimensional palm trees and watching them change from blue to magenta as they sway in the ambient BitTorrent breeze. (via Visitation Rites)

MP3: Universe: "I"

Gazing, Gazing is out October 10 via Bandcamp