WVAU’s concert series Capital Punishment returns this Friday, December 2, featuring instrumental noise-rock group the Psychic Paramount. The band’s recent album II was featured in Pitchfork’s Overlooked Records of 2011:
Riffs churn and bang, guitar leads triumphantly well up, and drummer Jeff Conaway smashes his kit hard enough to break skulls. This is experimental underground rock that the kids from Dazed and Confused could appreciate– a pure-badass astral exploration that always keeps its toes in the mud. It took the Psychic Paramount six years to make the album, but it still sounds– in a good way– like the result of a week’s worth of seriously locked-in garage jamming.”
This year, we’ve moved the show upstairs to Kay Chapel to provide a dramatic backdrop for the Psychic Paramount’s dynamic live set – lights off, backlit, with a constant smoke machine. Doors open at 9:30 p.m. Don’t miss WVAU’s largest event of the semester. It’s free. Bring everyone you know.
The Psychic Paramount @ Union Pool