Tue. music pick: Wand

Psych-rock Londoners get loud at the Entry.

April 3, 2015 at 5:02PM
Press photo of Wand, by Justin Tenney
Wand (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Wand

9 p.m. • 7th Street Entry • 18-plus • $10-$12

Wand's amps had barely cooled after its well-received debut album was released on Ty Segall's Drag City imprint last fall. But the L.A. psych-rockers quickly plugged back in for last month's "Golem" LP. Inspired by a 1920s silent horror flick, the record's apocalyptic guitar roars contrast with frontman Cory Hanson's gentle, trippy vocals. The album features knee-buckling stoner grooves that chug with a concrete wall of guitar fuzz, which routinely bends to galactic guitar solos and synthesizer flurries. Michigan surf-psych trio Heaters open. Michael Rietmulder

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