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The Singular Focus of Beach Houses Psychedelic Pop

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The album has been released gradually, in chapters, the last of which will come out later this month. This is unmistakably a Beach House record, but it’s also an expansive, occasionally fantastical project accentuated with grand orchestral flourishes and eighties synth-pop glamour. It’s the group’s least focussed album yet, but it’s also so sublimely imagistic that it makes you wonder why film directors and music supervisors haven’t been hounding Legrand and Scally to create movie scores. After “Bloom,” Beach House took a pause, and then recorded “Depression Cherry.” When the album came out, in 2015, the duo offered a statement to describe their retreat from the mainstream in terms that were stubborn and a bit pious. “With the growing success of ‘Teen Dream’ and ‘Bloom,’ the larger stages and bigger rooms naturally drove us toward a louder, more aggressive place; a place farther from our natural tendencies,” they explained. “Here, we continue to let ourselves evolve while fully ignoring the commercial context in which we exist.” On the album, their first of two that year, they scaled back the boom of the drums, reducing the percussion to a ticker-tape hush.

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So began their mixing scramble, wherein four different mixers—including the alternative legend Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, NIN)—worked remotely on Once Twice Melody’s 18 songs. “It was on all accounts so hard and made us fight constantly for the record,” says Scally. As Sean McVay prepares to make a first-round pick in the NFL draft for the first time as a head coach, the Los Angeles Rams are setting up shop in a luxurious draft house for this weekend's event. The Allman Brothers' next album, 1973's “Brothers and Sisters,” includes “Ramblin’ Man.” Betts wrote and sang lead on the song as well as playing lead guitar.

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Eventually the Lexus sped off at Cherry Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway, leaving the dog behind. "My father has always been my hero, my mentor and my favorite guitar player in the world. I want to say thank you to all of you who have sent messages, prayed and sent good energy to my family and my dad." Through several incarnations and countless controversies, Betts led the Allman Brothers after the death of Duane Allman. During the 1990s he wrote or co-wrote such hits as “Seven Turns,” “Nobody Knows” and “No One to Run With.” The Allman Brothers Band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

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The following year a live version of “Jessica” won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. During Bob Dylan's Sept. 30, 1995, concert at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa. Florida, Betts joined Dylan on stage for several numbers including "Ramblin' Man." Betts told the story of how it came to be while seated at his Sarasota County home in 2014.

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Drive around the area east of Bradenton today and you are bound to find Betts Road. During the ceremony, Betts' explosive guitar work was the highlight of the band's performance of the blues standard "One Way Out," which they first popularized when Duane Allman was in the band. When it came to figuring out their at-home process, the recording of Legrand’s vocals, over a five-month period ending in the punishing COVID winter of 2021, was particularly challenging and intimate. “It was just Vic and I, me being the one recording and editing,” Scally says. “It was like a steel cage death match.” After recording drums and strings in L.A. And finishing the record on a high note, the band got word that, due to supply-chain issues and vinyl production, they’d need to rush to get everything done in time if there was any hope of it coming out in 2022.

We both feel lucky that younger people keep discovering us and we’re able to keep making records. Betts’ daughter Christy married Frank Hannon, guitarist and co-founder of the multi-platinum selling hard rock band Tesla. Hannon’s 2012 solo album “Six String Soldiers” features one of Dickey Betts’ last studio recordings.

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Over time, they incorporated more polish and grandeur, but they held tight to their music’s dreaminess and its structural simplicity, typically built on a few continually looped chords. When consumed, as intended, as a full album, their sound took on the entrancing and metronomic quality of an EKG machine. Not saying we’re like these bands, but it’s like Tusk or The White Album or that ELO double record.

Duane Betts, who Dickey named in honor of Duane Allman, is a nationally renowned guitarist, singer and songwriter born in Sarasota. As a teenager, Duane joined his father and the rest of the Allman Brothers Band in concert for select songs in the 1990s and then became a full-time member of his dad’s Great Southern group in the 2000s. Betts, along with his son, Duane Betts, attended Allman's funeral at Snow's Memorial Chapel, Saturday, June 3, 2017 in Macon, Georgia. "I said, 'Bob, just sing whatever you want to.' I didn’t think he knew the words. I figured he’d just make up some stuff," Betts recalled.

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“Ramblin’ Man” is the Allman Brothers Band’s first and only Top 10 pop hit, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the U.S. “There’s always been that scrappy part of us that just wants to get it done quickly for the sake of capturing that thing,” says Legrand. They play me an old iPhone video of “Masquerade,” the album’s clubbiest track, being written on an early-’90s keyboard called a Rapman, just a built-in beat and Legrand’s chords evoking a labyrinth of darkness. Hypnotic duo whose swirling organs, fuzz guitar, and ghostly vocals have revealed new possibilities in dream pop. The Jokers were a regionally popular act that could fill 1,500-capacity dance halls.

Dickey’s daughter Jessica Betts, as a toddler, inspired the hit instrumental that bears her name. Gregg Allman, who was living in Los Angeles in early ’69, joined a few weeks later — at the urging of Duane, Betts and the rest of the musicians — to handle lead vocals and play the Hammond B-3 organ. While many celebrities have lived in Sarasota and Manatee counties including Betts' longtime band mate Gregg Allman, none have roots as deep as Betts’, whose songwriting and guitar playing would go on to influence acts including Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker Band, Gov't Mule and Tedeschi Trucks Band. The Betts family started living here, in the southeastern Manatee County community of Myakka City, about the time of the Civil War.

They met in 2004 through Baltimore's indie rock scene, and would release their self-titled debut album Beach House in 2006. Beach House is the debut studio album by American dream pop duo Beach House. It was released on October 3, 2006, by Carpark Records in North America, Bella Union in Europe, and Mistletone Records in Australia. Legrand is classically trained, but her vocals tend to sound more instinctive than technical.

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"Western media we see you, and all the horrors that you hide," crowds chanted at one point. With hundreds of protesters rallying against the war in Gaza outside the event and concerns over the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the perils for journalists covering the conflict, the war hung over this year's event. Gomez shared the video on her Instagram account and to her network of dog lovers to help find the four-legged pooch. The video was recorded by a food delivery driver who said she saw someone in a Lexus push the dog out of the car.

Besides Tame Impala, they are perhaps the only current band that has been both sampled by one of the greatest rappers of our time and immortalized by some of the worst EDM bros. Eight albums later, they have come to define modern dream pop by merging elements of psychedelia, shoegaze, and dub with the indelible whine of George Harrison’s guitar, the hint of danger in Warhol’s Factory, and the eternal cool of their arthouse influences. The discography of musical duo Beach House consists of eight studio albums, one compilation album, five extended plays, and 25 singles. The group was formed in Baltimore, Maryland by Victoria Legrand as a vocalist and keyboardist, and Alex Scally as a guitarist, keyboardist, and backup vocalist.

Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder is one of my favorite records, but a lot of my favorite songs are not the big ones—I don’t love it for “I Wish” or “Sir Duke.” Would “Dear Prudence” have made the top 10 cut of The White Album? I don’t know, but it’s my favorite fucking Beatles song of all time. Beach House is an American dream pop band from Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2004. The band consists of vocalist and keyboardist Victoria Legrand and guitarist, keyboardist, and backup vocalist Alex Scally. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim and has been followed by Devotion in 2008, Teen Dream in 2010, Bloom in 2012, Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars in 2015, B-sides and Rarities in 2017, and their upcoming 2018 album, 7. With 18 tracks and 84 minutes of running time, Beach House have plenty of room to try out different things, but Once Twice Melody invariably sounds phenomenal.

After playing with them in Indiana, Betts returned home and teamed up with fellow guitar player Larry “Rhino” Reinhardt, a Bradenton native who would go on to play with Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond, bass guitarist Berry Oakley and keyboardist Reese Wynans. They emerged in the late 1960s in Jacksonville as the band Second Coming. Several hours later, after the lethargy of fried food and booze sets in, and the conversation turns heavy, Scally can sense the mood in the room has shifted beyond innocent loopiness.

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