DESERT ISLAND: Enter a psychedelic oasis with LA's Mystic Braves.

Borrow your cool uncle’s buckskin jacket or funky aunt’s peasant dress and get ready for the hippest happening since the South Bay’s very own Chocolate Watchband helped ignite the mid-’60s garage rock scene. Across three gem-packed albums, Los Angeles quintet Mystic Braves effortlessly re-create the magic of psych-pop’s golden age, from vocal harmonies and jangly guitars to the strains of Farfisa organ and the clap of tambourine. Forget the fashion and vintage instruments, though; it’s Mystic Braves’ timeless melodies and pithy lyrics about heartbreak, freedom and the strange trip along life’s highway that stay with you.

Mystic Braves
Thu, 8pm, $11.50+
The Ritz, San Jose