Kevin Bronson on August 14th, 2013

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First as a duo and now as a three-piece, the Dead Ships have been busting eardrums and busting up the blues for more than two years now. Their debut album of garage-rock, “Electric Ahab,” sounded like a mission statement – press the accelerator all the way to the floor and don’t let up – and since then singer-guitarist Devlin McCluskey, drummer Christopher Spindelilus and bassist Alex Moore have covered Levon Helm and played so many live gigs they’re almost part of Eastside clubs’ furniture. Their new single “Golden Room” is a faint nod to the Echo Park saloon the Gold Room. “I wish I could write a song about the issues facing a gentrifying neighborhood,” McCluskey tells PureVolume, where the song premiered, “but they just provide window dressing for our faux-bohemian debauchery and that’s essentially what ‘Golden Room’ is trying to evoke.” The song will appear on a split 7-inch (with Wake Up Lucid’s “Let It Roll”) as part of the series Near Mess Records is doing.

||| Stream: “Golden Room”

||| Live: The Dead Ships play the Echo at 8:50 p.m. Sunday as part of Echo Park Rising.

||| Previously: At Chinatown Summer Nights; at Buzz Bands LA’s “Dear Austin, Love L.A.” 2013; “You Were Young” video; “You Were Young”