Mission Creek Oakland Music and Arts Festival continues in Oakland tonight, with a Nectarine Pie/Bare Wires show at Eli’s Mile High Club later with Courtney and the Crushers, Lotus Moon, and Smokestacks. That’s at 9pm for six bucks.

The fourth (!) annual Rock Make Street Fest is all-day tomorrow (Saturday), starting at noon and featuring a bunch of local artists, food carts and more sprawled out across 18th and Treat Street. The event is free and all ages. More details - including the bands performing and a list of vendors -can be read over at TBB here.

Nick Waterhouse, who’s had a hand in producing some of the Allah-Las’ recent releases, plays a pre-party at Engine Works tomorrow (Saturday) starting at 6pm in advance of the Allah-Las show at Hotel Utah later that night (who are on tour). The Engine Works show is $5 at the door and will also be commemorating some recent Waterhouse releases, including ‘Is That Clear’ b/w ‘ I Can Only Give You Everything.’ He’ll be joined by The Tarots. Primo will be DJing early on, more details over on the facebook page (edit: link fixed). Tickets for the Hotel Utah show are available here.

Peter Hook may be ‘saddened and upset‘ that New Order has decided to reunite without him, but that hasn’t stopped him from going on a national tour to play Joy Division‘s seminal album Closer. Peter Hook and the Light play at the Mezzanine Saturday night at 9pm — will call tickets are still available.

There’s also a Rank/Xerox show at Hemlock Saturday night with Kitchen’s Floor (from Australia), Fat History Month and Yi. Listen to a cut off the excellent Rank/Xerox debut release over at Night Fog Reader (via Make a Mess). It’s their record release party.

And don’t forget, Lumerians play a saveKUSF benefit at Bottom of the Hill Sunday night with Naked Lights and Infinity Rider. Read our interview with the psych quintet that we did before their show at Great American Music Hall awhile ago. This one is $10 and is all ages. More details on the facebook event page, or you can buy tickets directly from the venue.

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Anything else? (I’m exhausted.)

(see Part Time @ Thee Parkside this Thursday)

Monday
Ty Segall, RTX, Heavy Cream // New Parish, 9pm $10/$12 (18+)
La La Vasquez, Terry Malts, Pamela // The Knockout, 9pm (21+)

Tuesday
Cull TV Launch Party // John Colins Bar, 8pm $FREE
Teen Daze, Yalls, Speculator // Public Works, 8pm $6 (21+)

Wednesday
White Hills, Carlton Melton, Dirty Ghosts // Rickshaw Stop, 8pm $10/$12
Blackbird Blackbird, Radiation City, Appetite // Bottom of the Hill, 9pm $8 (21+)
Symbolick Jews, We Are Hex, Endroit, Catharsis For Cathedral // Elbo Room, 9pm $7

Thursday
Part Time, Pamela, Permanent Collection, Surf Club // Thee Parkside, 9pm $5 (21+)
Personal and the Pizzas, Straight Arrows, Angora Debs // The Knockout, 9pm $5 (21+)

Friday
Zounds, Culture Kids, Dadfag // Thee Parkside, 9pm $10
Th Mrcy Hot Springs, Uzi Rash, Nectarine Pie, Fut // Hemlock Tavern, 9:30pm $6
Bare Wires, Courtney and the Crushers, Lotus Moon, Nectarine Pie, Smokestacks // Eli’s Mile High Club (Oakland), 6pm

Saturday
Peter Hook and the Light // Mezzanine, 9pm $22
Robbers on High Street, Allah-Las, Freedom Tickler // Hotel Utah, 9pm $10
Rank/Xerox, Kitchen’s Floor, Fat History Month, Yi // Hemlock Tavern, 9:30pm $7
Tartufi, Battlehooch, Birds & Batteries, Bare Wires, Phantom Kicks & more // Treat and 18th St., 12pm $FREE

Sunday
Lumerians, Naked Lights, Infinity Riders // Bottom of the Hill, 9pm $10

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Not too long ago Oakland-based Lumerians released Transmalinnia. The inaugural LP dropped after three years of rising anticipation by the psych supernaturals’ listeners (worshipers?), spurred by their self-released EP and a bunch of trippy light-bending shows. They made news at this year’s Austin Psych Fest (curated by the Black Angels) by blowing out their set. The quintet clearly has an affinity with power. They answered some questions about egoless music and alien dance parties ahead of their show at Great American Music Hall this Saturday with local droners Young Prisms and Bronze.

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Lumerians // “Black Tusk”

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Most bands walk onto a stage with little more than some cigarettes and their instruments — and there are the Lumerians, who show up with cabinets, projectors, multiple keyboards and cloaks. You go out of your way to create an other-worldly environ for your audience. What can a Lumerians-initiate expect at one of your shows?
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LM: An immersive, ecstatic experience. We aim to excite as many senses as we legally can. We like to be perceived as a single entity. If you leave feeling like you’ve participated an event rather than witnessed performance, we’ve done our jobs.
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The video for Gaussian Castles that debuted on Stereogum a few months ago featured rapid-flicker shots of caves, sunsets, and other idyllic nature scenes. Where was it shot? How do you know director Curtis Tamm? (His website is definitely worth checking out, here.)
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LM: We have known Curtis for a while now via our friends in Galena/Naked Lights. We sent him the album and asked him to make a video for any song that resonated with him. He had just gotten back from a road trip across the US, where he visited many of the locations you see in the video. He did a lot of additional shooting during dawn in the Headlands.
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Two songs that you are listening to right now.
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LM: Magnetic Stripper’s “Extended Play” and Bronze’s “Parallels”. One in each ear. (ed: You can listen to both tracks on an excellent mix they put together for Dangerous Minds).
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I’m interested in the concept of egoless music. There are bands like Radiohead or Deerhunter — very egoless bands in their own right — where it is clear that while some collaboration is present, their is a singular “driver” of the songwriting process. Maybe its a sketch of a melody or a piano riff introduced by a bandmate — where does a song germinate for Lumerians and how does it develop?
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LM: Our process is emergent. We start playing together and often times good things prevail. Sometimes they don’t. We record most of our rehearsals and the best ideas that turn into songs are often things that happen spontaneously between takes of structured material. We listen back and will sculpt, cut and weld the best parts until we have something space-worthy.
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You have been called the “soul of Bay area new-psych scene”. Do you feel special kinship with any other psych-rock outfits in the Bay in particular?

LM: We relate to the concept of psychedelic as an adjective for a state of being, less than as a genre, which most people seem to equate to the Bay Area sound of the 60s. Contemporary bands we definitely feel a kinship with are Bronze, Late Young and Naked Lights. Some of the best bands to ever emerge from the Bay Area would have to be Chrome, Tuxedomoon and The Residents.
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Transmalinnia has been out for a few months now and you’ve been on tour a handful times in support — including a stop at the Austin Psych Fest this year. What are your goals for your next project? What new space are you looking to explore?
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LM: We are currently working on a mostly spontaneous instrumental music release. Ephemeral compositions that are unfamiliar and raw. Transmalinnia was a very complex and involved process of which we are very satisfied with the results, but this one will be a lot looser and maybe a bit more uncomfortable.
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You guys were described as one of the “best - albeit short - sets” seen at Psych Fest. Given a portable tesla coil and the rights of an interstellar traveler, where in this universe would you perform?
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LM: Our search parties are still attempting to make contact with awesome dance partying alien life. It would be a real bummer to travel however many lightyears just to have a couple gangly arm folders talking on a bar stool in the corner.

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Lumerians play with Bronze and Young Prisms Saturday 7/2 at Great American Music Hall, doors at 8pm/show at 9pm for $13 (dinner tickets are available for $38 if you prefer to dine and trance). You can buy tickets at the event page here. You can pick up Transmalinnia from Knitting Factory Records here or at any local record store. Watch the band perform Chevaux Fous on public access show “Dance Party Revival” below.