Golomb, Amps for Christ

Open Melody Presents Golomb Amps for Christ $15 All Ages All sales final after 24 hours Open Melody is delighted to present electric Columbus, Ohio power trio Golomb in their debut Los Angeles area performance at Oblivion on Saturday October 10th. Support from our local purveyor of trad-tronics and experiments in apocalyptic new Americana Amps for Christ. $15 adv, tickets on sale now at DICE and link in bio. — There’s an endearing uncanniness to Golomb’s 2025 record “The Beat Goes On,” starting with its proto-Summer of Love title, referencing a different married couple trading lines over and about driving drums, the opening title track a meta-meditation on turning on, tuning in, and dropping yourself into sonic slipstream. The production is intimate, raw, often hushed and deft but free-wheeling, pummeling, brushing up against but never gratingly in the red. The record sounds timeless and contemporary, AM and FM, a loose grip on the guitar neck and a drumstick on a downward trajectory at maximum velocity. These feel like songs that you’ve heard before, like scanning the radio on a cross-country drive. Not as in a mixtape — there’s a real intentional cohesion across their catalogue — but a freedom to stretch out and explore. The three players — equilateral, minds-melded, ego placed lovingly aside — skip and hop through the history of electric guitar music and its tropes and quilt together something strikingly of a piece.