Los Toms with Hot Milk and The Flower Pallets, STiLGONE

From out of the chaos emerges Los Toms, a psychedelic desert fuzz trio from Fort Collins, Colorado. Oscillating between surreal psychedelia and heavy psychrock, the band is dynamic, punchy, and provocative. Spanish and English lyrics intertwine across a patchwork of driving bass and post-rock fury. A musical collective focused on live-performance, Los Toms are said to appear unto the well-initiated acolytes across the American West

Formed in 2017 with their origins in late-night, heavy jam sessions in a poorly-wired, abandoned airplane hangar, Los Toms sank their teeth into psychedelia with The Sticker EP (2019), best characterized by the song “Ziggurat”. This early era is lo-fi, guitar drenched in reverb and digital delay. Lyrics appear more as sporadic, hypnotic chants, punctuating the band’s grooving rhythm section.

The band returned in 2020 with a new drummer and a new aggressive sound, Los Toms attacked the heavy side of psychrock. Inspired by bands like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Thee Oh Sees, the trio cranked the fuzz pedals and let it rip. A hazy and improvised, two-day jam produced the raw, unbridled Centipede Sessions, a four-track, (mostly) instrumental album. Themes of duality and impermanence are unconsciously explored on “Sciencefish”, for which the band appeared in their first music video.

These themes of duality were explored deeper in the band’s 2021 album Totem. A sort of heads-and-tails record, it opens with a psychedelic advent as progressively heavier desert riffs build into “Black Magick Sludge Mage” - a final, cacophonic sludge doom anthem. The tail of the record snakes forth from the heavy, fuzzed out rubble. A pair of psychedelic odysseys saturated with ambient synthesizers, the layered guitar work swaddles the tracks (“Baphomet” and the aptly-named “Psychedelic Standoff”) in hypnotic furs.

Plans are in motion for the release of a fourth album, Tube Theory, in 2024 - a milestone representative of the evolving and maturing style of Los Toms. With a quicker, more deliberate approach to songwriting, these long-awaited tracks have become the staple core of live performances. The band continues to present new material, taking inspiration from modern psychedelic rock outfits like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Weeed, and Kikagaku Moyo, as well as from progenitors like Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd.

***** Hot Milk and the Flower Pallets is Instrumental Prog Rock from Bozeman MT

***** STiLGONE is a Bozeman, MT based band that plays a unique fusion of genres, spanning funk, soul, hip hop, reggae, psychedelic rock and more. While covering so many styles they manage to create a cohesive sound that is uniquely their own. This unique sound has been dubbed “Intergalactic Dirtbag Soul”.

Their live shows are an immersive trip through detailed soundscapes, danceable grooves, and the lyrics of songwriter and guitarist Symon Palmer, who founded the band originally in 2016. From there STiLGONE established themselves playing frequent shows at the Zebra Cocktail Lounge, touring nearby towns and local festivals, and supporting major touring acts such as Deltron 3030, and Nappy Roots.

In 2021, after a multiple year hiatus, the band reformed with newfound drive, playing their own shows across Montana as well as supporting long time collaborators Desperate Electric, jam giants EGGY, north west funk masters Polyrhythmics and more. The current line up is Symon Palmer on guitar and vocals, Ezra Bowman on drums, Chris Cowan on lead guitar, Carl Hansen on bass, Cal Treadway on keys and Jackson Hamilton also on keys.

In April of 2022 the band began tracking on their debut Album “B.O.L.O.” which was self-produced in collaboration with Mellow Mike of Mountain Muzik. Two tracks from the album were chosen to be released as singles, the first “Doo Wop”, was released on October 19th, 2023 and the second “Paridose”, released on November 23rd, 2023. The album was released on December 23rd, 2023.

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