Reverend Horton Heat
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Thurs., April 2
Reverend Horton Heat, The Loft - "It's a psychobilly freak out" howls James Heath on his band's 1991 debut. And although there have been some musical side roads along the way, specifically into Johnny Cash-styled outlaw country and instrumental organ soul/jazz, that sound has been the act's calling card in the 35 years since. About a dozen albums have appeared under the group's name, all of them cool, retro-inspired, sometimes twisted, punkabilly infused mayhem. But it's live where the sweat-soaked musicians and thrashing mosh-pit faithful combine for a brain-frying, high-octane show that'll have your ears ringing for a week. - Hal Horowitz
From the venue:
Loaded guns, space heaters, and big skies. Welcome to the lethal littered landscape of Jim Heath’s imagination. True to his high evan
gelical calling, Jim is a Revelator, both revealing & reinterpreting the country-blues-rock roots of Ameri can music. He’s a time-travelling space-cowboy on a endless inter stellar musical tour, and we are all the richer & “psychobillier” for get ting to tag along.
Seeing REVEREND HORTON HEAT live is a transformative ex perience. Flames come off the gui tars. Heat singes your skin. There’s nothing like the primal tribal rock & roll transfiguration of a Rever end Horton Heat show. Jim be comes a slicked-back 1950′s rock & roll shaman channeling Screamin’ Jay Hawkins through Buddy Holly, while Jimbo incinerates the Stand Up Bass. And then there are the “Heatettes”. Those foxy rockabilly chicks dressed in poodle-skirts and cowboy boots slamming the
night away. It’s like being magically transported into a Teen Exploita tion picture from the 1950′s that’s currently taking place in the future. Listening to the REVEREND HOR TON HEAT is tantamount to injecting pure musical nitrous into the hot-rod engine of your heart. The Reverend’s commandants are simple.
At The Loft
Reverend Horton Heat | 04/02/2026 8:00 PM