In less than a year the bad ass duo, Deap Vally have gone from opening for bands like Band of Skulls to headlining their very own tour. Monday, March 23rd was anything but mundane at their show at The Chapel with Creep Beat and L.A. Witch!
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| Deap Vally @ The Chapel 3/23/2015 Photo by Marc Fong |
While the five young guys of Creep Beat filled ear-holes with their gritty style of surf-punkrock, the three ladies of L.A. Witch toned things down with nineties inspired, lo-fi dream-pop rock. It was pretty cool that Julie (the drummer from the headlining act) let both openers play her Deap Vally "branded" drum kit and, while both bands kept asking the house to turn up the bass, or vocals or everything, Creep Beat's requests had a fun undertone while the requests from L.A. Witch came off cross and condescending.
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| Deap Vally @ The Chapel 3/23/2015 Photo by Marc Fong |
Deap Vally stormed the stage with an unpretentious fierceness and the ladies immediately engulfed the restored hall in a roaring rock n roll sound, with little tuning, in a way neither opening act could reach. Barefooted, Julie impressively stomped on the pedal to her kick-drum like it was nothing. In a cash money patterned leotard, she laid down a thunderous tone amidst the flurry of her heavy drum slaying.
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| Deap Vally @ The Chapel 3/23/2015 Photo by Marc Fong |
Lindsey, also barefoot, shined with a vibrant confidence and an uber cool attitude. Her raspy vocals and sweeping bass lines accentuate their California bred bluesy rock while their approachable don't mess with us demeanor make for quite an impactful live show.
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| Deap Vally @ The Chapel 3/23/2015 Photo by Marc Fong |
Since exploding on the music scene with their 2013 debut album, Sistrionix the two have really honed the collective noise they make: it's still a big loud sound but they're more in control of it now which comes across with more driving rock force than before. It's been rumored that the girls have been working with Yeah Yeah Yeah's guitarist, Nick Zinner in the studio on their forthcoming sophomore album...perhaps this rock mentor has something to do with their elevated elegant edginess. Even their screamin' new dyed dos slap you with a bold rock style!
Whatever it is, it's working. Lindsey and Julie beamed as they busted out a bunch of new material before taking a break to say thanks and confirm that they were playing "new shit"! Show-goers were equally excited to hear new music from Deap Vally as they were to hear songs from Sistrionix like their first single, "Make My Own Money". The LA based ladies laced their playful banter with F-bombs and the atmosphere was a comfortable one as SF fans watched them rock on!
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| Deap Vally @ The Chapel 3/23/2015 Photo by Marc Fong |
Deap Vally has a couple more shows lined up with glam-goth rocker Marilyn Mason this month before their tour wraps up with a couple festival sets. It doesn't get more bad ass than that!
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