The Big Pink may take their name from the Band's debut album but there is nothing rootsy or remotely Dylanesque about this London duo's music. In fact, their roots reach back only as far as the late-80s and early-90s, to the days when Madchester-era baggy disco and Thames Valley shoe-gazing ruled the waves and waived the rules with regard to fusing drone-rock and dance rhythms. There are elements of Spacemen 3 and Spiritualised's trance gospel on their debut single Too Young to Love, of My Blood... (more)y Valentine's brief foray into nightclub territory on their Andy Weatherall-remixed epic of noise-dance, Soon, even of Happy Mondays' "religious" rhythmic rock classic, Hallelujah. Some have suggested this might have been a direction that the Stone Roses could have pursued after their debut instead of the bombastic riff-rock of The Second Coming.

Long Beach’s Crystal Antlers plough a similar furrow to fellow west coast psych-freaks Comets On Fire but reach enough velocity to give the likes of Fucked Up, who they recently toured with, a run for their money. While they’ve garnered many comparisons to Les Savy Fav, they cast a net far and wide over folk, garage and even the fashionable end of the prog spectrum.

All star local dj based group putting forth mostly mesmerizing instrumentals with some spoken musings. Synced video projections and the pounding pulse of drums and electronic tropicalia.