Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Zebulon, Los Angeles
**Michael Beach, Alex E.T., Will Ivy** With his off-the-rails live show and charismatic stage presence, Melbourne, Australia's Michael Beach is one of contemporary underground music's great songwriters and bandleaders. A fan favorite at Goner Fest and on the DIY touring circuit, Beach is building a loyal fan base one fan at a time with an equally confounding and compelling live show, splitting the difference between Bill Fay and Jerry Lee Lewis. Beach’s latest album, Big Black Plume, will be released by Goner Records (North America/Europe) and Poison City Records (Australia) in July 2025 and features contributions from The Dirty Three’s Mick Turner, Tropical Fuck Storm’s Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschen, The Necks’ Lloyd Swanton, Joe Talia, and Leah Senior. “Existential dread exorcised through heady guitar rockers and intimate ballads” - NME “He cites inspiration from classics across the history of rock and roll, distilling their spirit into guitar-led gems entirely his own.” - RRR Album of the Week “Beach is a great Melbourne guitarist and singer who has a real classic way of handling melody that’s both catchy and hard to grasp at the same time.” - Wire "From brooding post-punk to loose-limbed psych to piano ballads and so on, but it’s the quality of the work that really stands out. In the past, Neil Young was the closest ancient white-guy rock-icon relation I would place upon Beach’s music, but this time it’s feeling closer to Lou Reed, specifically The Blue Mask era. There’s a real downtown NYC paranoia to some of these songs, the dark side of blazer-sporting power-pop sorta vibe – listen to “Spring” and tell me you can’t hear the members of Television waking up from the natural sunlight in their roach-filled loft circa 1980. Beach has gotten deep into the mental state where madness inspires hope and vice versa, songs pumping hard with the blood of a wounded heart that refuses to stop beating no matter how many uppers and downers course through its aortas. A lot of rockers try to take you there, or at least want you to think they’re trying, but Michael Beach really takes you there, if you know what I mean.” - Yellow Green Red One rave review already in from Bandcamp: “If you’ve given up hope of finding anthemic-yet-arty guitar rock for grown-ups that doesn’t condescend to your intelligence in either direction, add Michael Beach’s Big Black Plume to your wish list. A Melbourne underground stalwart originally from California, Beach has been releasing sick psych-tinged shit for years—just listen to the modular synth majesty that is Drain Brugs. On Big Black Plume, he enlists similarly-minded melders of rock and the avant-garde (members of Tropical Fuck Storm, Comets on Fire, the Dirty Three, and The Necks all make appearances) to help whip up a rollicking longform opus free of musical inhibitions and beholden to no rules. Here you’ll find crunchy riffs dissolving into brainy experimental passages, blousy love songs brushed with resonant electronic elements, spare piano melodies undercut with thin currents of drone, and rousing hard rock ballads with a zillion guitar overdubs melting into shimmering puddles of sunbaked psychedelia. Tune in, turn on, turn it up.” - Bandcamp “Cool Band Alert” July 2025 **Alex E.T.** "Color of Strange is a rough-cut chunk of Los Angeles' grand musical myth in a bottle. The echoes of early Slash Records and LA's '80s psychedelic renaissance abound, not to mention a beautiful, gravity-defying voice blooming out of dirty jangle and fuzz-blasted guitars." ~ Producer Ethan Miller (Howlin Rain, Heron Oblivion)