Wednesday 14th October 2026

Bad Vibrations Present

LSD and the Search for God

7:00 pm until 10:15 pm

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About LSD and the Search for God

LSD and the Search for God hit the Northern California coast in 2005, seemingly from another place and time, dosing San Francisco with hypnotic shows built on swirling guitars, otherworldly drones, fuzzed-out pop melodies, and dreamy vocal harmonies.

Early shows and recordings drew comparisons to My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Yo La Tengo, Spacemen 3, and Sonic Youth, helping the band quickly earn a reputation as a must-see act within the Northern California underground shoegaze and psych scene.

Their self-titled debut EP (Mind Expansion Records, 2007; Don Giovanni, 2025) sold out before its official release date, earned critical acclaim, and continues to appear on lists of essential shoegaze releases.

All five songs cemented the band as key players in the late-2000s shoegaze revival. But the fourth track, “Starting Over,” emerged as a defining moment. It captures the genre’s essence with submerged vocal harmonies and a finely balanced guitar interplay that drifts between hushed intimacy and sweeping wall-of-sound swells. Striking a rare space between vulnerability and grandeur, “Starting Over” has grown beyond a fan favorite into a modern shoegaze anthem — one that feels inseparable from the movement it helped shape.

With anticipation building around their cult-classic debut, the band delivered a second EP that surpassed expectations, expanded their sound, and sharpened their vision. Heaven Is a Place (Space Age Recordings, 2016; Don Giovanni, 2025) frequented many Best Of lists and, according to It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine, is “…controlled pop that matters, weaving their sound with fuzz, reverb, feedback and an eternal bliss that will melt you in place.”

Pop Matters calls it, “a long-awaited sermon for the faithful and a blazing induction for new converts,” while Primal Music says it’s “another astonishing collection of five psychedelic stories glistening with the same spaced out ingredients that blew my mind way back in 2007.”

Selected Press Quotes:

“The San Franciscans’ washed-out guitarscapes and affectionate, blanket-warm melodies resemble My Bloody Valentine jamming with Yo La Tengo.”

–The Big Takeover

“It was a night of exceptional intrigue and quite literally, an other-worldly performance. The set bended and warped through psychedelic bliss. Crazed and incensed punters at the front of the crowd dictated spaces to writhe themselves around in, one chap took to taking his top off, letting his spilling gut loose and continuing to throw his head towards the monitor, just incase it was not loud enough.”

–Brighton’s Finest

“Heaven Is a Place is a long-awaited sermon for the faithful, and a blazing induction for new converts.”

–Pop Matters, “10 Best Shoegaze and Dream Pop Albums of 2016”

“Magical pop that could inspire one to take meds without a perscription.”

–Autopia Music

“Dreamy indie-warp.”

–San Francisco Chronicle, “Pop Beat”

“Awesome indie psych/shoegaze. A poppier My Bloody Valentine or a more opiated Sonic Youth.”

–Robotic Empire (Richmond, VA)

“LSD and the Search for God are the rightful inheritors of the more coherent side of My Bloody Valentine and the more experimental, noisy side of Luna.”

–Real Detroit Weekly

“An absolute treat for lovers of all things shoegazey and dreamy. Superb.”

–Road Records. Dublin, Ireland

“Psychedelic shoegazers…”

–SF Weekly

“Beautiful guitar-based gems delightfully reminiscent of the early Creation Records sound.”

–Mind Expansion Records

“This impressive debut EP sounds just as epic as their name.”

–The Deli Magazine, “CD of the Month”

“A full-on shoegazer assault of crazed guitar sounds coupled with ethereal male/female vocals. It’s an excellent remedy for those who still miss Ride, MBV, Chapterhouse….”

–Losing Today

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