Kevin Bronson on February 24th, 2014

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L.A. quintet Fool’s Gold emerged from a few months in the studio sharp and energized Saturday night, dispensing its deep grooves and polyrhythmic charisma to a packed house at the Satellite. With singer Luke Top’s crooning and guitarist Lewis Pesacov’s pointillist licks winning the crowd over immediately, the band played several new songs from its as-yet-unscheduled third album, the follow-up to 2011’s “Leave No Trace.”  Laena Geronimo led her band Raw Geronimo through a roaring support set, and early arrivals kicked off the night with a half-hour of the folk/blues/New Orleans-inspired stew of Crash (ex-Deadly Syndrome frontman Christopher Richard, now of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros), fronting a full band whom absolutely nobody should miss the next time they play.

Photos by Zane Roessell