As far as album titles go, Greg Ashleys Medicine Fuck Dream from 2003 is about as symbiotic with the music as it gets. He has made other albums, including 2007s Painted Garden, but Medicine Fuck Dream truly sums up his musical aesthetic. Heavy on swirling, langorous atmospherics, Ashleys songs are warm, fuzzy, fucked-up psych with a pop mentality. His vocals are like John Lennon soaked in Nyquil and his arrangements are loose and meandering. Listening to his albums, one imagines him in him wandering about his analog studio in Oakland, all disheveled and drugged-up like Skip Spence. Only Ashley is much more responsible and sane in real life. He actually rents out the aforementioned studio and produces records there. Matter of fact, he did just that for tonights headliner The Dutchess & The Duke and their latest, Sunset/Sunrise. With Michael Vermillion. BRIAN J. BARR
Wed., Nov. 25, 9:30 p.m., 2009
