Kevin Bronson on November 26th, 2014

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We predicted a blissfully heavy rock-off for the final night of Dorothy’s residency Monday at the Bootleg HiFi, what with the headliners having spent the month meting out their back-to-basics blues and the main support band, EFG, achieving new levels of epic with every encounter. Neither disappointed. The headliners, fronted by flask-toting belter Dorothy Martin and looking forward to a big 2015, played a thunderous set that included all five songs off their EP (available for free download here), a rockin’ cover of “No Church in the Wild” and more. As for EFG (fka Electric Flower Group), please send us a memo if there’s any band doing heavy psych-rock better right now. If Martin was the night’s rock goddess, EFG’s Imaad Wasif was its mystic, viciously shredding and shape-shifting his guitar tones over the molten rhythms of drummer Josh Garza and bassist Tom Biller. The trio, with an album finished (and aching to be released in the new year), mashed up its single “Singing Bridges” with the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” and also played the single-to-be “Suzanne.” Wasif leaped into the crowd at one point, possessed, and hopped on Garza’s kit at another. In a parallel universe, you’d see these two bands in arena. Here, it was just another Monday in central L.A.

Photos by Matt Draper