“’Psychedelic violence’ is the way we describe our sound, because we’re your dad’s acid records mixed with your older brother’s punk and metal records,” says Josh Landau – the hirsute, badass frontman for headbanging L.A. three-piece the Shrine – as he sits with his equally hirsute and badass bandmates Courtland Murphy and Jeff Murray after playing a sweaty set at Yahoo Music. Somehow the Shrine (the group, not the venue) manage to pack the energy of all three classic bands into their own increasingly buzzy – and crazy – live shows, whether they’re playing for an intimate gathering of friends at Yahoo Studios or for “1,200 people crawling on each other and throwing s—“ at their recent party to celebrate their third album, Rare Breed. “I looked over and a friend of ours was making out with two girls,” recalls Landau of their wild, stuff-of-legend record release bash, which was attended by everyone from Father John Misty to Daniel Lanois to Shepard Fairey.
