Black Moth Super Rainbow + Giant Day

“Saturday downtown. Twenty years of analog synths and a vocoder…”

Run psych music through enough analog synthesizers and a vocoder that sounds like a tape deck remembering a dream, and you keep the menace instead of losing it - that is the trick Tobacco built Black Moth Super Rainbow on, and the records still turn into different records depending on which stereo you play them through. Over two decades in and somehow still touring, the band remains the one the radio missed, which is exactly why the heads guard it. Giant Day opens - LA shoegaze with the heavy reverb chops. Music Box on a Saturday is correct: five hundred capacity, downtown San Diego, the room that books the bands nobody else will. Doors at seven-thirty, openers at eight, headline around nine-thirty. The crowd is the people who collect cassettes and reissues and follow whichever Bandcamp drop Tobacco posts next. Tickets through Music Box's own site. Twenty-five dollars.