Happening Tonight: Psychic TV, Coma In Algiers, Chant [Show Preview]

All roads seem to lead to Psychic TV—at least all of the musical ones here in Austin. If there was any band that has an influence on the art rock scene here in the ATX it is no doubt PTV. While the musical similarities might not necessarily be apparent, the ideas and ethos of PTV can be heard from the exploratory programming of Church of the Friendly Ghost to the fuck you punk of Beerland. Their footprint is subtle, but ubiquitous. 

Nevertheless, pinning down PTV’s sui generis sound is nearly impossible. The band is a protean mixture of Throbbing Gristle, electronic sensibilities, and straightforward pop. Likewise, PTV definitely has the music down, but still manage to communicate something else—the ways that media, information, music, and consciousness itself functions in a post-modern age. The only way to wrap your mind around them is to open your ears, eyes, and maybe nose, to their complicated catalog. Better yet, you can do both of the above at their show tonight; a show that is most likely one of their last.

Filling out the bill to this already anomalous bill is Chant. The chance meeting of a junkyard, a world music sampler, and Skinny Puppy, Chant bangs out militant, industrial mayhem with a penchant for Gary Numan on a drum apparatus that would make Neil Peart jealous.

Psychic TV: [Website]

Coma In Algiers: [Website]

Chant: [Website]