The Night Beats on tour now, joining the Black Lips celebrating the release of s/t LP out via Trouble in Mind!

Creating mind-blowing sonic sprawl in perfect, 3 minute pop songs,

Seattle's The Night Beats are on tour now and join up with Atlanta rabble rousers the Black Lips next week.

Praised by RCRD LBL as "proof that sometimes all you need is three chords, guitar, bass, drums—and maybe an Ibanez Tubescreamer—to make a killer pop song" and Sound on the Sound for their "tonal warp...if ever there was a soundtrack for rebellion, the Seattle’s Night Beats latest psych single 'Ain’t Dumbo' is it" their self-titled LP, out now on Trouble In Mind, has been winning over fans and providing soundtracks to late nights since it's June 28 release.

To preview what you'll experience live, give a listen to album tracks "Dial 666" and "Ain't Dumbo"

and prepare to be astonished that these are tracks for the summer of 2011 and not 1967.

Tour dates and more below.

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The Night Beats Live

July 24 - Replay Lounge - Lawrence, KS
July 25 - Hi-Tone - Memphis TN
July 26 - JJ's Bohemia - Chattanooga, TN
July 27 - Neighborhood Theatre - Charlotte, NC
July 28 - Ottobar - Baltimore, MD *
July 29 - Bowery Ballroom - NY, NY *
July 30 - Maxwell's - Hoboken, NJ *
July 31 - Shea Stadium - Brooklyn, NY
Au g 1 - Mr Small's Theatre - Pittsburgh, PA *
Aug 2 - Buster's Billiards - Lexington, KY *
Aug 3 - Exit/In - Nashville, TN *
Aug 4 - The Firebird - St. Louis, MO *
Aug 4 - Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL *
Aug 17 - Burger Records - Fullerton, CA

w/ Black Lips *

Praise for The Night Beats

Saying that these creatures’ raw power is enticing is an understatement, it is vital thrill that could wake up the dead with its rolling waves of sharp fuzz guitars, hip shaking tribal beat and rhythmic pulse.

Reverb-eration blog

The Night Beats are a Seattle-based trio who play the devil's music. Specifically, psychedelic blues with a touch of R&B. If the Black Keys or White Stripes had grown up being huge fans of classic Texas psych like the 13th Floor Elevators, they probably would have sounded something like this.

Covert Curiosity

The band has brought snarl, a nash of teeth and a whole history of Texas psych kicking through the mud with them on their self-titled debut.

Raven Sings the Blues

Seattlites The Night Beats worked some kind of voodoo magic over the crowd and turned the living room into a dance-a-thon. There's been a lot of buzz building around these psych garage-rockers, and their live show, equal parts straightforward rock n' roll and warbling experimentation.

Redefine Magazine

The trio play psychedelic garage rock dredged in the urgency and fervor of great punk music. The manic drumming of James Traeger and the adept play of bassist Tarek Wegner make for a heavy foundation for lead guitarist and singer Lee Blackwell to basically go nuts over. When Blackwell's not wailing on his guitar ripping intricate blues riffs, he's howling away like some Marc Bolan meets Robert Plant hell demon.

Everybody Taste

If King Khan and the Black Lips and Ty Segall somehow were able to conceive a musical baby, this would most assuredly be it. Night Beats manage to be a soulful and psychedelic yet surfy brand of garage rock.
Let's Get Bent

A perfect example of the evolution psych rock.

Drone Magazine

Night Beats are unfuckwithable road warriors, psych-rock workhorses, a meeting point between Tacoma-centricity and the great scary beyond where other local bands fear to roam. They revere psychedelia and early rock ‘n' roll, and aim in some way to pay homage to those sounds, while also forging a vision of their own.

Weekly Volcano

“Ain’t Dumbo” is a reverb-damaged, fist-pumping example of studiously slovenly garage rock throwbackism, crispy with analog (or at least analog-sounding) paranoia and spiked with two unhinged guitar solos that sound as though they were recorded through a mic set up on the far end of a warehouse hallway.

More Drive

Seattle based band The Night Beats mine as well change their address and move down to Austin, because their sound truly evokes images of some of our favorite psych rockers in town.

Austin Town Hall

With more broken beats and rock riffs than your standard punk jam, the Night Beats consistently held my interest. They closed with a tempo-shifting number about how they “Can’t get no love” against a sprinkler of strobe lights and whompwhompwhomps that harkened the call of a Martian space vessel.

Melophobe

It's an atomic display of sound, filled with Blackwell's reverberated whoops and electrifying fret work and Wegner and Traeger's precise, driven rhythms.
The Stranger

Hopelessly reverbed guitars are the order of the day here. Sneering vocals and a production aesthetic only a few notches above demo-quality are what you’ll find. The yelping, edge-of-dementia vocal on tracks like “Ain’t Dumbo” call to mind what Marc Bolan might have sounded like were he playing with bandmates in a garage in, say, Elgin, Illinois. Night Beats have nailed the garage aesthetic: for all I know, they’re the tightest, most expert players on the globe.

Musoscribe

Seattle psychedelic garage-soul-blues trio The Night Beats have a scorching rock 'n roll sound that is known to shake things loose.

Do512

With blazing guitar work and a razor sharp rhythm section the band mutate conventional chords & progressions into a wonderfully mind-blowing sonic sprawl.
Mad Mackerel

The infamous sound of 60’s psychedelic garage-rock has been renewed and revived. Seattle’s three-piece Night Beats have taken the sound of many before them and added a fresh spin to it.

Culture Mob

Any number of bands cite 60’s Texas psych as an influence, but rarely does a group actually capture what made those bands special...The Night Beats have expanded on the bedroom immediacy of their first recordings to create an LP that perfectly captures and modernizes the hallucinogenic and exhilaratingly demonic aura of bands like The 13th Floor Elevators and Golden Dawn.
Early Tuesday Morning Blues

More on The Night Beats

Any number of bands cite 60’s Texas psych as an influence, but rarely does a group actually capture what made those bands special. Following their debut EP also on Trouble In Mind, The Night Beats have expanded on the bedroom immediacy of their first recordings to create an LP that perfectly captures and modernizes the hallucinogenic and exhilaratingly demonic aura of bands like The 13th Floor Elevators and Golden Dawn. With blazing guitar work and a razor sharp rhythm section Danny Lee Blackwell and company mutate conventional chords & progressions into a mind-blowing sonic sprawl. The record reels you in with 2-3 minute pop songs like ‘Ain’t Dumbo’ and ‘Dial 666,’ forging a landscape that then throws you into a chaotic journey of jams a’la ‘Dewayne’s Drone’ and ‘Little War in the Midwest’ ; that bend and meander but never overstay their welcome. Tune in, turn on, & drop that needle on this record!

RIYL: Black Angels, Thee Oh Sees, 13th Floor Elevators, Electric Prunes

The Night Beats Will Eat You