Jesus & Mary Chain’s dreamy, bombastic, psych-punk glower goes ’round the bend – correction, ’round the Corners. How a band can be so bashy, yet sing like they just woke up, is a true marvel! Yet here ’tis: punk slipped a sugar cube or three, hanging on to the energy, the feedback, the overdrive, with its anger rendered somnambulant, as if the revolution lapsed into psychotic narcosis. If modern psych bands all sounded like this – retaining the reverb-drenched production, shooting for two-minute-30-second bursts – the genre might become truly vital. As it is, TSTT remain true stars. (Fri. 17, Sidewinder Inside, 10pm)

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This article appears in March 17 • 2017.

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Tim Stegall contributed to The Austin Chronicle 1991-1995, and was a staff writer 1995-1997. He returned as a contributor in 2013. He has also freelanced for publications ranging from Flipside to Alternative Press to Guitar World. He plays punk rock guitar and sings in the Hormones.