Location: Popscene, 155 Fell Street San Francisco, CA 94102
Date: Friday, February 28, 2025, 8pm – 11:30pm PST
MERCURY REV, San Francisco, CA
Popscene x Noise Pop x Rickshaw Stop Co-Presents…. MERCURY REV
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev, founded in 1989 in Buffalo, New York, has made a career of daringly pushing the edges of artistic perception, channeling colors, sounds, and visions that always seem just beyond our human reach. The Guardian praised the band as “a rarity in indie rock: a band who have continually evolved their sound, pushing at the boundaries of what rock music actually means over 25 years, borrowing from jazz, funk, doo-wop, techno, folk and more along the way,” while Rolling Stone praised their “majestic chaos,” and the BBC lauded their “shimmering psychedelic pop, immersive indie-rock, [and] spectacularly engrossing passages of sumptuous instrumentation.”
The band’s 1991 debut, ‘Yerself Is Steam,’ landed on Pitchfork’s Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time, and their 1998 breakthrough, ‘Deserter’s Songs,’ was named NME’s Album of the Year, Pitchfork’s 100 Favorite Records of the 1990s (2003), Melody Maker’s All Time Top 100 Albums (2000), Uncut’s 200 Greatest Albums of All Time (2016), and multiple1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die lists. The group’s ability to balance mainstream appeal and progressive musical experimentation has been demonstrated through collaborations with legendary artists, as well as performances at major festivals and on network television.
The band’s tenth album, Born Horses, was recorded in the Catskills and is available now via Bella Union!
