Oklahoma rock is meeting Palouse rock onstage Wednesday, as the Oklahoma band Psychotic Reaction will perform alongside the Moscow band Ideomotor at 6 p.m. in Pullman’s Reaney Park. As part of the former’s Psychotic Reaction Tour, the bands will perform until 8 p.m., said Jack Christensen, Palouse Music Community executive director. Doors will open at 5:30.
When she was 15 years old, Ashlyn Taylor’s grandmother gave her Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix the greatest artists of her grandmother’s generation. They were in the form of about 20 vinyl records, some of which were original pressings from each record’s initial release in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Six years.
Local bands Half Step Ahead and Desolation Horse played tunes infused with pop, rock, alternative, indie and psychedelia for the people who lined up for Kush 21’s 4/20 Fest sales. While the lines formed by the dispensary entrance, the bands played in the middle of the parking lot by Kush 21. The day kicked off.
Local Palouse bands Pumice Pocket, Half Step Ahead, Staring at the Sun and Sanity Point will compete in a Battle of the Bands from 5–8:30 p.m. Friday in Jackson Hall Studio A, Colleen Hill (she/they), Cable 8 Productions general manager, said. The winning band will receive a grand prize of $500, donated by SEB, Hill.