Photos: Sun Araw at the Ottobar

A few weeks ago, one of my favorite artists making music right now made a tour stop in Baltimore at the Ottobar. Sun Araw came to town from California, and was backed with a band marking the first tour of The Sun Araw Band. A new LP is due out on Cameron Stallones' own Sun Ark Records, and the show featured a preview of the new tracks.

Cameron and crew sounded huge on the booming system at the Ottobar, having only seen him perform once before at a small bar in Texas. The set was one of my favorite so far this year, a psychedelic whirlwind of new age dub and deconstructed jams that seemed to go on into eternity. The night was also blessed by a heavy psych set from Run DMT.

Peep some shots by Valerie Paulsgrove below, and the full set after the jump.

Giveaway: The Sun Araw Band and Run DMT

The L.A.-based psychedelic dub-warper Sun Araw is coming to Baltimore in June, part of an East Coast tour that debuts Cameron Stallones' new full band. Under the new moniker The Sun Araw Band, Stallones and crew will be previewing cuts from a forthcoming 2xLP via Woodsist to be titled Ancient Romans.



Streaming above is "Bump Up", a single from Sun Araw's most recent 7" disc from Monofonus Press last month. Here's a cut from a recent EP, Beach Head:



The Sun Araw Band will be joined by Run DMT and M. Geddes Gengras on Sunday, June 5 at the Ottobar. We've got a pair of passed to give away to this compliments of Unregistered Nurse, so shoot an email over to bmoremusicallyinformed@gmail.com with SUN ARAW in the subject and your favorite dub song as the message body.