The Black Angels, who hail from Austin, Texas, have found a second home in New York City, where fans sold out both the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan and The Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn for two triumphant headlining Angels shows last weekend of april 8.
The band’s popularity, which has taken another leap with last year’s stellar release, The Phosphene Dream, only is boosted by its current live show, which has become edgier and more intensely psychedelic. Drawing on the darker side of 1960s acid-rock, most notably its Texas forerunners The 13th Floor Elevators, and also acts like The Doors, Love, and even those surly New Yorkers The Velvet Underground (from whose “Black Angel’s Death Song” the band took its name), The Black Angels live are about creating an atmosphere that is simultaneously mind-expanding and darkly unsettling.For the band, the future appears to be very bright-in a darkly trippy, 1960s kind of way, of course…
You can download his live performance below….
The Black Angels – Live At Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
released April 08, 2011
Setlist:
01 [“Good Vibrations” introduction]
02 Bad Vibrations
03 Entrance Song
04 The Prodigal Sun
05 Sniper At The Gates Of Heaven
06 The Sniper
07 Banter
08 Haunting At 1300 McKinley
09 Surf City Revisited
10 Science Killer
11 Yellow Elevator #2
12 Black Grease
13 Banter
14 You On The Run
15 Telephone
16 True Believers
17 Banter
18 Young Men Dead
19 Encore Break
20 My Boat Is Sinking
21 Banter
22 Bloodhounds On My Trail
23 You In Color
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