Stereo Mandrax (FREE w/ RSVP): Prison • Chrome Chasm • Golden Lumens

Let’s roll! Roll whatever you got, if you got ‘em! If you dig the rock and roll, you’ll enjoy yer stint with Prison.

Straight outta Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York City, USA, THE WORLD, Prison is a jammin’ state of mind, a band, an experience and a loose collective of psychedelic dudes from various ‘no fixed addresses’ across the multiverse of rock. They’ve been active since 2015, but if you didn’t catch ‘em live in NYC, you wouldn’t know – until the summer of 2023, when Upstate dropped. THEN you knew! Prison’s long and varied jams broke out across the country and into the world. The second official Prison stint, Downstate, followed at the start of 2025, reaching into insane new places. A third bite of the apple is on the horizon with the July 2026 release of Big Rigs On The BQE. A multi-headed beast, Prison’s core members - of Sarim Al-Rawi, Matt Lilly and Paul Major - fuck with an ever-expanding satellite of players, including Mike Donovan, Mike Fellows, Matt Leibowitz, Marc Razo, Adam Reich , Ryan Sawyer and Dave Smoota Smith appearing on the their first three records. That’s just so far, but that’s how it’s gotta be! Leap-hogging from one vibe to the next, Prison cop a variety of grooves, a far-ranging scrum of Groundhogs/Velvets/Hampton’s/Pink Fairies/Magic Band/Stooges/Good Rats/No Trend/Can propositions powering guitars, bass, drums and organ. It feels like they’re coming from everywhere!

Special mention must be made of charter member Sam Jayne, a fellow lifer whose passage into the eternal in 2020 has left them with a spirit guide for the rest of the Prison stint.

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Chrome Chasm was formed in 2024 by three of Houston’s brightest underground stars: Mlee Marie (Hearts Of Animals) on alto saxophone, flute and voice (whose long-form experimental sax performances helped inspire the formation of the band), Will Adams (Lower Dens/ Ka-Nives) on pedal steel, synth, percussion and voice, and Tom Carter on guitar. Carter has been casting a long shadow over Texas psychedelia and American underground music for over 3 decades, most notably with the Houston based Charalambides, a powerful creative force of the pre-new weird America era of experimental and avant psychedelic music, and most notably since with his solo guitar magnum opus Long Time Underground (which was deemed among the best experimental albums of 2015 by Pitchfork)

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Golden Lumens: Sonic mischief, maleficence and misbehavior with Jeff Berner, Rob Heath and Tony Maimone