Black Love Live at Antebellum Gallery in Hollywood

Black Love makes primitive, disorienting hard rock.  Using basic instrumentation to create heavy and purposeful music about loss, the results exist somewhere between an Appalachian snake handling revival and a lighthouse crumbling and re-building itself in 4/4 time.  It's majestic break-up music, shot through with wretched, redemptive blues about annihilated love writ large with brilliant lyrics, blasting sunburst beats and soul-laundering bass. 

The latest manifestation of Black Love touches down at curator Rick Castro's Antebellum Gallery on Saturday, October 29.  Opened in 2005, Antebellum remains America's only gallery devoted to fetish culture.  Along with new Black Love songs and selections from their forthcoming "Unlust" EP, Black Love unveils their "86 Jenny" cassette on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the release of the popularly irritating Tommy Tutone single.  An exercise in durational extremes, it was recorded when Black Love dialed area codes from 200 to 999 preceding 867-5309, just to see who answered.