Metroactive » Particle Kid https://activate.metroactive.com Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:08:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 Particle Kid at The Ritz https://activate.metroactive.com/2020/02/particle-kid-at-the-ritz/ https://activate.metroactive.com/2020/02/particle-kid-at-the-ritz/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2020 04:28:29 +0000 http://wp.blvdscms.com/activate-metroactive-com/?p=125639
When he’s not with his brother Lukas backing up Neil Young as part of The Promise of the Real, Micah Nelson—son of the inimitable Willie Nelson—spends much of his time composing dusty, lo-fi rock & roll in his own band, Particle Kid. It would seem his father passed on the songwriting bug…]]>

When he’s not with his brother Lukas backing up Neil Young as part of The Promise of the Real, Micah Nelson—son of the inimitable Willie Nelson—spends much of his time composing dusty, lo-fi rock & roll in his own band, Particle Kid. It would seem his father passed on the songwriting bug and the Godfather of Grunge has helped him shape his aesthetic. Plenty of his songs, such as “Radio Flyer”—from Particle Kid’s 2019 LP, Window Rock—feature stomping drums, fuzzy guitar and stream-of-consciousness music videos composed of jittery, stitched-together Super 8 fragments.

Particle Kid
Mon, 7pm, $15+
The Ritz, San Jose

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