Borrow your cool uncle’s buckskin jacket or funky aunt’s peasant dress and get ready for the hippest happening since the South Bay’s very own Chocolate Watchband helped ignite the mid-’60s garage rock scene. Across three gem-packed albums, Los Angeles quintet Mystic Braves effortlessly re-create the magic of psych-pop’s golden age, from vocal harmonies and jangly guitars to the strains of Farfisa organ and the clap of tambourine. Forget the fashion and vintage instruments, though; it’s Mystic Braves’ timeless melodies and pithy lyrics about heartbreak, freedom and the strange trip along life’s highway that stay with you.
Mystic Braves
Thu, 8pm, $11.50+
The Ritz, San Jose
