Many of today’s Psych Rock bands have a sound that can be traced back to a certain period in music history. For Canada’s Elephant Stone, that moment is when George Harrison first put a sitar on a Beatles track. While the group continues to experiment with elements of Indian music (beyond the sitar, the band has used tabla and the esraj on its releases) within its engaging Pop Rock style, recent song previews from Elephant Stone’s forthcoming album show the band expanding its approach; superb singles like “The Devil’s Shelter,” “Where I’m Going” and “Andromeda” are reminiscent of British Shoegaze and Psychedelia artists of the ’80s and ’90s like Primal Scream and another “Stone” band — Stone Roses. The band’s Cincinnati show — coming just after a visit to Texas’ South By Southwest festival — also features Columbus, Ohio’s Indigo Wild.
10 p.m. Saturday. Free. MOTR Pub, 1345 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, motrpub.com.
This article appears in Mar 9-16, 2016.
