The Black Angels

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The Black Angels
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General information
Genre (s) Psychedelic rock , neo-psychedelia , garage rock
founding 2004 in Austin (Texas) , US
Website www.theblackangels.com
Current occupation
Guitar , bass , vocals
 Christian Bland
Vocals, bass, guitar, keyboard
 Alex Maas
Drums , percussion, bass
 Stephanie Bailey
Bass, guitar, percussion, vocals
 Jake Garcia
Keyboard , percussion, bass , guitar
 Kyle Hunt
former members
Drone machine, keyboard and percussion
Jennifer Raines
Bass, guitar, percussion
 Nate Ryan

The Black Angels are a psychedelic rock band from Austin, Texas .

history

The Black Angels were founded in May 2004. The name comes from the Velvet Underground song The Black Angel's Death Song .

In 2005, The Black Angels were on the double album Psychedelica Vol.1 of Northern Star Records represented. Together with the growing popularity of their MySpace page , this enabled a huge leap in their popularity in the underground scene.

On Friday, August 5th, 2007, they performed at the Lollapalooza in Chicago. Among other things, appearances at SXSW 2006 & 2008 and All Tomorrow's Parties 2008 followed. Tour partners were the Blues Rock Band, The Black Keys , Black Rebel Motorcycle Club , The Warlocks , Roky Erickson , The Brian Jonestown Massacre , Queens of the Stone Age , The Raveonettes and Wolfmother .

The debut album Passover was generally well received within the independent rock community and recognized for its dark mood and lyrical content.

The band's songs were featured on the Death Sentence soundtrack , as well as in the second episode of the FOX series Fringe and the ninth episode of Californication and the first episode of True Detective .

Between October 28th and November 2nd, 2008, The Black Angels performed as a band with Roky Erickson ; a future publication of the joint appearances is in progress. The song Natural Selection was created with the band UNKLE on the album Where Did the Night Fall .

From April 23-25, 2010, The Reverberation Appreciation Society and The Black Angels hosted their third annual music and arts festival, Austin Psych Fest 3. Among the 43 participating bands are The Raveonettes , Pink Mountaintops , The Warlocks , The Gaslamp Killer , Warpaint , Night Beats and psychedelic rock legend Silver Apples .

The third band album, Phosphene Dream , was released on September 14, 2010.

The Black Angels were represented again at the 4th Austin Psych Fest from April 29th to May 1st 2011.

Besides the band name, The Velvet Underground is also recognized in the band logo. This represents a high-contrast negative image of the singer Nico , who was a singer for The Velvet Underground at times.

Other projects of the band members

  • The Viet Minh
  • Christian Bland & The Revelators
  • The Shine Brothers
  • Ghost songs
  • The UFO Club (Christian Bland, Lee Blackwell of Night Beats & others).
  • Sweet tea

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Phosphene Dream
  US 52 October 02, 2010 (2 weeks)
Indigo Meadow
  US 64 04/20/2013 (2 weeks)
Death song
  CH 73 04/30/2017 (1 week)
  UK 68 05/04/2017 (1 week)
  US 94 05/13/2017 (1 week)
EPs
Clear Lake Forest
  US 136 08/09/2014 (1 week)

Albums

  • Passover (Light in the Attic Records, 2006)
  • Directions to See a Ghost (Light in the Attic Records, 2008)
  • Phosphene Dream (Blue Horizon Records, 2010)
  • Another Nice Pair (combines the first two EPs) (Blue Horizon, 2011)
  • Indigo Meadow (Blue Horizon Records, 2013)
  • Death Song (Partisan Records, 2017)

EPs

  • The Black Angels (Light in the Attic Records, 2005)
  • Black Angel Exit (Light in the Attic Records, 2008)
  • Phosgene Nightmare (Blue Horizon, 2011)
  • Clear Lake Forest (Blue Horizon, 2014)

Singles

  • The First Vietnamese War b / w Nine Years (published August 21, 2006)
  • Better Off Alone b / w Yesterday Always Knows (released May 28, 2007)
  • Doves b / w Drone in G # Major (released May 20, 2008)
  • Telephone (released August 3, 2010)
  • Watch Out Boy b / w I'd Rather Be Lonely (released April 21, 2012)

Guest appearances

TV / film appearances

Others

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  1. ^ Hannah Levin, Review of Passover , The Stranger , Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2006. Retrieved September 7, 2011
  2. ↑ Unkle ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unkle.com
  3. ↑ Austin Psych Fest - official site ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.austinpsychfest.com
  4. ↑ Dom Alessio, The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost (Light In The Attic / Inertia) , Cyclic Defrost, October 21, 2008. Retrieved December 8, 2009
  5. ↑ a b c Do512.com lists Austin events ( Memento from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ http://www.myspace.com/theghostsongs
  7. ↑ http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2010/10/01/night-beats-black-angels-the-ufo-club
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.austinsound.net
  9. ↑ a b Chart sources: CH UK US

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