Video premiere: The Chavez Ravine, ‘Bermuda Triangle’
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L.A. trio the Chavez Ravine make bone-rattling garage-rock that sounds as if it’s blaring out of an alley full of old amps that have been left out in a thunderstorm. The band is the alliance of singer-guitarist-producer Manny Nieto and drummer Phil Guerrero (both of whom played in the ’90s band Distortion Felix), along with bassist Mando Lopez (of Morrissey’s band and, previously, FEAR and the Breeders), flying the flag of visceral rock.
It’s not all aggression, though — their latest single “Bermuda Triangle,” released in August as part of Dangerbird Records’ Microdose series, is a love song, however bristling.
How true love plays out in the video for “Bermuda Triangle” is another story. Directed by the duo of MANDO+KEVIN and filmed by Tony Molina, it’s the dark story of a man, a woman and a car with a special bond. But, as the band points out, it’s “not your typical boy-meets-girl yarn. … The video is about the depths one person takes to preserve a love thought lost. This is the Chavez Ravine’s Bermuda Triangle.”
See if you can spot the homages to various filmmakers. And accelerate.
||| Watch: The video for “Bermuda Triangle”
||| Live: The Chavez Ravine open for Heart Bones (Har Mar Superstar & Sabrina Ellis) on Thursday night at the Regent Theater. Tickets.
||| Previously: “Bermuda Triangle,” “Citywide,” “Touch Down”
[…] “Competitive Mourning” will appear on the new Asian She EP, “Kiss Under Kareem.” It features “Eyelash,” a song co-written by Benji Hughes, and comes out July 1 on LA Hall of Records, the label operated by Lopez and Manny Nieto, who are bandmates in the garage-rock trio the Chavez Ravine. […]