In and Out: Dark Meat Will Totally Kick the Polyphonic Spree's Ass

With a press photo that looks like a Where's Waldo cartoon, Dark Meat are a 17-member psych-rock collective from Athens, Georgia. They'll be packing into a green, 35-foot 1972 GMC coach tour bus for a SIXTY SIX date Spring tour kicking off at SXSW.

With song titles like, "There Is A Retard On Acid Holding A Hammer To Your Brain," is it really any surprise their album Universal Indians is being released on April 8th via Vice Records?

The group describe their sound as "the Stooges meets Crazy Horse meets Albert Ayler." Go ahead and try to make sense of that, or else just see for yourself by downloading "Freedom Ritual".

New Yorkers can catch Dark Meat at the two Union venues, Hall and Pool, on April 7th and 8th, respectively. There might still be room for a few audience members to squeeze in after the band packs themselves into the modest-sized venues, but I'd get there early, just to be safe.