Dirty R&R: Holy Wave (Austin), The Patterns, King Fossil 7/20/2024 @ The Usual Place LV

Join us at Dirty Rock & Roll Dance Party garage and psych night. Featuring a dreamy lineup of pop and shoegaze bands.

HOLY WAVE - psychedelic dream pop from Austin
Back at the beginning of their fifteen-year career, Holy Wave leaned into a tranquil realm of psychedelia, eschewing long-form jams and guitar heroics for a dreamy pop-oriented approach. As the band evolved, the early Sgt. Peppers-meets-the-Velvets sound yielded to more sophisticated melodies and tripped-out instrumentation, effectively steering their music away from sun-bleached nostalgia to a color-saturated dimension where sounds of the past, present and future intermingled.

The childhood friends of Fuson, Joey Cook, Kyle Hager, and Julian Ruiz grew up in El Paso, where they cut their teeth in the local DIY scene. Hungry for more music and broader perspectives, the members made frequent road trips across the Southwest to catch touring bands who opted to skip West Texas markets. That wanderlust eventually prompted their relocation to Austin, but it also permeated in their adventurous songwriting and love for touring. No small surprise then that these aural explorers felt that a whole way of life was taken from them with the onset of the pandemic. But on their new album, Five of Cups, it sounds as if the physical limitations of quarantine life prompted Holy Wave to wander even deeper into new sonic territories.

PRESS
“Austin five-piece Holy Wave is certainly dreamy in a sense, but theirs is the kind of dream that’s more vivid than blurry, more present than passing.” - Consequence of Sound

“They've got the far-off, dreamy vocal wash of the shoegazers, but their guitars and hooks are anything but subtle” - Pitchfork

Five of Cups
https://post-trash.com/news/2023/7/16/holy-wave-nothing-in-the-dark-post-trash-premiere
https://newnoisemagazine.com/news-holy-wave-announce-new-album-five-of-cups-with-single-happier/

THE PATTERNS - psychedelic pop from Las Vegas
Indie rock from Las Vegas, inspired by late 60’s psychedelic pop bands (The Beatles, The Kinks, The Beach Boys) and 80’s jangle pop and goth rock bands (The Smiths, The Cure, XTC). 

Songwriting partners Jake Colvin and Josh Walker have been writing songs and playing in bands together since 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona. Bonded by mutual obsession with 60’s music and strange chord progressions, the duo have been dedicated to creating unique, emotive, and fantastical pop music.

After moving to Flagstaff, Nashville, and finally to Las Vegas, the third lineup of The Patterns is rounded out with Alec Goss on drums, and Anthony Moncada on bass.

The Noise Room EP
https://thepatternsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-noise-room

KING FOSSIL - shoegaze indie rock from Las Vegas
This will be the debut show of King Fossil, a duo with Jeremy from Orange Eats Creeps and Cameron. Imagine if early Pavement was influenced by the early Creation shoegaze EPs with more poetic lyrics.

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Saturday, July 20th 2024
Doors 8:00pm / Bands 9:00PM
Ages: 21+

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The Usual Place
100 S Maryland Pkwy suite 110, Las Vegas, NV 89101
Free parking lot validation parking at the door

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$10 Presale / $15 Day Of Show