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Psychic Ills | MP3s, Tour Dates w/ Blood on the Wall
"One day you will read about the band Psychic Ills." [Banana Nutrament]
"Psychic Ills is a relatively new quartet from New York developing an indie rock hybrid of Confusion Is Sex-era Sonic Youth (the shattered rhythms and screaming feedback), throbbing psychedelia à la Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine, ghostly reverb-soaked post-punk (Joy Division, Section 25), and Eno's glassy synth-generated ambient textures." [SFweekly]
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"Recent obsessions: the Psychic Ills' Dins (my album of 2006 so far)" [Rajeev One Louder]
"Incorporating space rock, psychedelica, and drone with the ferocious rhythms of punk rock, Psychic Ills are the rare band that is as experimental as they are explosive. While their dark electronics can sometimes fall into the "spooky" genre (spooky = silly sometimes), these guys make up for it when they let their guitars rip. Go to their show and be pleasantly prepared for a very big sound." [Oh My Rockness]
Psychic Ills are playing NYC's Knitting Factory on May 20 with Telepathe, Electroputas and Vizusa (ex-Excepter) (tix). They're were SUPPOSED to open for Wolfmother at Webster Hall on June 3rd too, but now Deadboy & The Elephantmen is listed instead. Anyone know what happened there? All dates below...
PSYCHIC ILLS
5/10: Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland with Indian Jewelry
5/20: New York, NY – Knitting Factory
BLOOD ON THE WALL AND PSYCHIC ILLS
5/4: Seattle, WA - Funhouse
5/5: Vancouver, BC - Media Club
5/6: Portland, OR - Holocene
5/8: San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of the Hill
5/9: Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland w/ Destroyer
5/12: Austin, TX - Emo's
5/13: Denton, TX - Hailey's
5/14: New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jack
5/15: Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
5/16: Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
5/18: Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
BLOOD ON THE WALL ONLY
5/10 – Tucson, AZ – Plush
PSYCHIC ILLS W/ WOLFMOTHER (NOT HAPPENING????)
5-30 - Montreal, PQ - Le National
5-31 - Boston, MA - Paradise
6-2 - Philadelphia. PA - TLA
6-3 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
6-6 - Washington, DC - Back Cat
6-7 - Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle
6-8 - Atlanta, GA - The Loft
Posted on May 4, 2006 1:07 PM
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saw them opening for ariel pink. awesome funky danceable, and ear shatteringly loud. bassist is stunning and her catchy bassline pretty much bring it all together in concert. very good live.
Posted by daniel | May 4, 2006 1:27 PM
I saw them at the Mercury Lounge a while back but all I can remember is, like daniel says, that the bassist was stunning.
Posted by Ryan | May 4, 2006 2:17 PM
they are also playing tonic on july 20 with vetiver.
Posted by daniel | May 4, 2006 2:33 PM
saw them with blood on the wall at maxwell's a while ago. BOTW was great and lots of fun and exciting. psychic ills were pretty boring. it felt like they were onstage forever. some redeeming qualities, but the songs didn't go anywhere and they all sounded the same. not to mention, BOTW just ripped the place apart. they were so good that night.
Posted by holmes | May 4, 2006 3:00 PM
saw them with blood on the wall at maxwell's a while ago. BOTW was great and lots of fun and exciting. psychic ills were pretty boring. it felt like they were onstage forever. some redeeming qualities, but the songs didn't go anywhere and they all sounded the same. not to mention, BOTW just ripped the place apart. they were so good that night.
Posted by holmes | May 4, 2006 3:05 PM
saw them a while back opening for blood on the wall at the knitting factory have to say though that altough Dins is sonically an amazing listen when i saw them live they were pure shit they only played a couple of songs, the show was pre the release of dins and basically they were just on stage plugging and unplugging things dont know if they just couldnt get it right or what but they were no fun, id like to see them again though i guess this time without technical difficulties, you are all right the bassist is hot stuff
Posted by angelo | May 4, 2006 3:11 PM
I have to agree with holmes. They're not bad, but every song on the album pretty much sounds the same. It's like one long, continuous note. They also sound absolutely nothing like Confusion is Sex-era Sonic Youth as SF Weekly states. If anything, they sound like Dead Meadow.
Posted by will | May 4, 2006 3:26 PM
yeah will. definitely alot like dead meadow. i'm still not sure if that's a compliment or not, though.
Posted by holmes | May 4, 2006 3:32 PM
i have seen them three or four times because they always seem to land the hottest opening spots. don't mind sitting through the set, but i have never been so moved as to walk over the merch table and buy a record. blood on the wall made them look like big losers at maxwells a couple months ago. it's funny watching a band get so lost in their own droniness, and the next band come out and just rock people's faces off. haha.
Posted by andrew | May 4, 2006 4:40 PM
O.K., I'm guilty of having commented approvingly on Lily Allen's looks, but now (just one day later) a mention (much less repeated mentions) that a female musician is hot strikes me as just plain wrong.
Posted by Bill Clinton | May 4, 2006 4:59 PM
i would also comment if a male performer were particularly hot (sufjan, i'm looking at you.)
Posted by daniel | May 4, 2006 6:57 PM
This band is unbelievably BORING in concert.
I know a lot of people give Wolfmother crap for being "rip off artists" but at least they can put on an awesome live show where people aren't falling asleep or staring at their shoes. Wake up people!
Posted by fed ex pope | May 5, 2006 3:40 PM
Saw them at the Ariel Pink show was well. The danceable comment seems to me that the person who wrote it like 16. Danceable? Not at all. They are doing the Loop/Spacemen 3 vibe and quite well. Arent we over the dance thing yet? Sheesh...
Posted by Undanceable | May 5, 2006 5:58 PM
I can't wait to see them next week. From the sounds of it they are hit-or-miss live.
Posted by scott | May 5, 2006 9:27 PM
I don't care how wrong it may or may not be to say, but their bassist is one of the sexiest women I've ever met. Absolutely.
Posted by I don't care.. | March 27, 2007 2:22 PM