Night Beats

Night Beats – Live At Valentine (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:42 minutes | 864 MB | Genre: Rock
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Night Beats are an American psychedelic/garage rock band, formed in 2009 in Seattle, Washington.

The band currently consists of lead singer and guitarist Danny “Lee Blackwell” Rajan Billingsley as the only permanent member. Founding member drummer James Traeger has only played intermittently with the band since 2016, original bassist Tarek Wegner left in 2014 and his replacement, Jakob Bowden, left the band sometime in early-mid 2018.
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Night Beats – Rajan (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:53 minutes | 514 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fuzz Club Records

As Night Beats, Texas-born, LA-based artist Danny Lee Blackwell creates music like one might assemble a puzzle. The Western psychedelic auteur builds his work from one moment, an initial spark, that must fit a certain criteria: it must give him goosebumps. If that sensation arrives, Blackwell will pursue the idea relentlessly until he has a new song; if not, he moves onto the next moment, constantly looking for the perfect molecule of a song.

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Night Beats – Outlaw R&B (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:45 minutes | 510 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fuzz Club

On June 4th 2021, Night Beats – the Texas-born brainchild of Danny Lee Blackwell – will release their fifth full-length, ‘Outlaw R&B’, via Fuzz Club Records. The album arrives following the 2019 ‘Myth of A Man’ LP (produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and released by Heavenly Recordings) as well as last year’s ‘That’s All You Got’ 7″. Made during the height of the California wildfires (where Blackwell currently resides), rioting in the streets and a nation in lockdown, the raucous technicolour rock’n’roll of ‘Outlaw R&B’ is a call to rejoice in some sorely needed post-apocalyptic hedonism.

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Night Beats – Levitation Sessions (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:40 minutes | 566 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reverberation Appreciation Society

“For our Levitation Session we recorded on reel-to-reel 1/2 inch tape in the middle of the Mojave Desert in Antelope Valley. Due to my natural tendencies to explore the layers of my ancestry and being forever inspired by the beautiful sounds coming out of the Saharan desert, I wanted to challenge myself to produce a recording that doesn’t filter but fully embraces a similar environment. A search for symbiosis between the music and the ground it’s made on. Thanks to a place I love and respect, a welcomed challenge, and some of my closest friends, what you are hearing is Night Beats in one of its truest and rarest forms. Thank you for listening and thank you to those who lived on and cherished this land before us”.

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