Receive Weekly Email and Text Message Updates:
Sign up for latest info on concerts, dining, promotions and more!
Go!

Most Popular

Reader's Picks

Top Recommendations

A short list of St. Louis's most popular hot spots.
user content provided by: LikeMe.net & Riverfront Times

National Features >

  • City Pages

    Michele Bachmann, Unmuzzled

    You don't need to read Sarah Palin's book to hear the ravings of a mad woman.

    By Matt Snyders

  • Miami New Times

    Pimp Daddy

    The rise and fall of a chubby sex-cult leader.

    By Natalie O'Neill

  • Dallas Observer

    The Fight for Texas

    Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison are locked in a battle over the soul of the GOP. They're also running for governor.

    By Sam Merten

Pontiak

9 p.m. Friday, December 19. The Wedge, 442 Bates Avenue.

Share

  • rss

By Shae Moseley

Published on December 16, 2008 at 4:57pm

Pontiak's music is a drop-tuned, trudging march that inevitably conjures Black Sabbath's evil dirges, the thick-as-molasses guitar sludge of Kyuss and the sprawling psychedelic hypnosis of the Black Angels. But the three brothers in this Virginia trio add melodic gang vocals and harmonies to its swaying drone, which keeps its latest full-length, Sun on Sun, constantly moving forward. Tactful track-sequencing and a bare-bones recording style give the record the feeling of a well-executed live set.