Kylesa

FUN FUN FUN FEST

• Preview

  Fun Fun Fun Fest by the blurb

• Saturday Preview

• Sunday Preview

• Interviews

• 'Weird Al' Yankovic

  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

• Invincible

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• The Gories

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Bad Religion

  BY MARC SAVLOV

• Polvo

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• The Hold Steady

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Comedy

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

Reviews

• Mastodon

  Jonah Hex EP

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• High on Fire

  Snakes for the Divine

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Kylesa

  Spiral Shadow

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• GWAR

  Blood Pit of Horror

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Suicidal Tendencies

  No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Best Coast, and Wavves

  Crazy for You

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• Butcher Bear & Charlie

  Carbomb

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Magic Kids

  Memphis

  BY MARGARET MOSER

• Peelander-Z

  P-TV-Z

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Kaki King

  Junior

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Deerhunter

  Halcyon Digest

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

Kylesa

Crackling with jam band elasticity, Kylesa's 2009 Prosthetic disc Static Tensions broke from these Savannah, Ga., marauders' more staid metal past. Spiral Shadow assimilates both paradigms as if Jane's Addiction and Kyuss shared leathers. Poster Children's indie chants underlie "Cheating Synergy," but the snake-charming slide guitar a minute and a half into "Crowded Road" plants a flag here raised again in the canyon cry of "Distance Closing In." The title track's siren riff loosens seismic depth charges. (Sunday, 2:50pm, Black stage)