Kevin Bronson on July 6th, 2016

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L.A. quintet Turquoise Noise got their start under the name Vox Waves, and along the way received a little help from a prominent supporter. The late Scott Weiland invited the band to work at his Lavish Studios (and open a show for him at the El Rey Theatre a year ago this month). The band — frontman Evan Snyder, guitarists Brandon Villa and Bryce Darrow, bassist Brendan Snyder and drummer Destin Rogers — make spooky-cool surf-cum-psych-rock with a stiff spine and nifty guitar lines. “Tabula Rasa” (Latin for “blank slate”) could have been etched into rock’s annals in 1968 or 1996 or 2016; those guitar freakouts rattle the bones. Turquoise Noise plan to release their debut full-length, produced and engineered by Rocco Guarino, later this year.

||| Stream: “Tabula Rasa” and “Wasting All My Time”

||| Live: Turquoise Noise play Friday night at the Blindspot Project in downtown L.A. along with Plum and Triptides.