Kevin Bronson on May 31st, 2013

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Rainbow Jackson thrashes around in the dizzying space between today’s next-wave garage rockers and Stooges-inspired power-pop of the 1970s. The L.A. quartet of Chad Carlisle, Sam Daggett, Laith Khalaf and Andy Ford play as if they’re daring someone suggest they clean it up – which, happily, they haven’t and probably won’t. Their newest three-minutes blast is “Freckles,” a lovesick ditty that leaves space for Daggett to shred a little. “Freckles” is being released next week as a split 7-inch (with Hindu Pirates’ “In the Dark”) on the new local imprint Near Mess Records, which also has music from the Dead Ships, Wake Up Lucid, Gothic Tropic and HOTT MT on the way).

||| Stream: “Freckles”

||| Live: Rainbow Jackson is one of six bands playing the opener of Chinatown Summer Nights, the free music series that kicks off June 15. Nightmare & the Cat, the Furys, Jutty Ranx, Sister Rogers and Cobalt Cranes will also play the night; music starts at 6 p.m.

||| Previously: “Flamingo Starr,” “Rings” video, “Robinson Crusoe”