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Psychedelic Rock Ritual · Boise, Idaho
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Chapter II · The Threshold

FALL
Through

Every set opens the same door. The sigil burns, the floor gives way, and the only way out is deeper in.

Chapter III · The Instrument

SIX STRINGS
ONE Pulse

A cherry SG run through tube heat and holy crunch. When it hums, the room hums with it.

Chapter IV · The Stage

TWO BODIES
ONE Storm

A&R started in 2021 in a windowless practice room off Vista Avenue — two amps, two guitars, a space heater, and a pact: never add a backing track. Just two guitars and two voices, a plethora of special guests, and it has to earn its place every night.

Chapter V · Transcendence

LET THE Bloom
TAKE YOU

Chapter VI · The Mark
FEEL THE SOUND See the Rites
“We are not a band. We are a frequency that borrowed two bodies in Boise.” — A&R, somewhere on the High Desert
01 The Duo

AARON & ROBYN

Formed in a rented practice room off Vista Ave with two amps, two guitars and no intention of staying quiet. Two guitars, two voices, two records and three hundred shows later, the ritual still starts the same way: lights down, sigil up.

AARON silhouetted on stage with guitar against a wall of red light
A
Acoustic Guitar · Lead Vocals

AARON

Plays a well-worn acoustic through a wall of tube heat. Sings like the desert is listening.

ROBYN silhouetted mid-riff against red stage light
R
Lead Guitar · Backup Vocals · Crunch

ROBYN

Plays a cherry-red SG through a wall of tube heat, answering every one of Aaron’s lines with a lead of his own, then steps up to the mic when the choruses need two voices instead of one.

02 The Sound

RECORDS OF the RITUAL

Snake Oil Cathedral album art — red kaleidoscope mandala

SNAKE OIL CATHEDRAL

LP · 10 Tracks · 43 min

The big one. Recorded live to tape in a decommissioned church outside Kuna. Crunch sermons, twin-guitar drone, choruses like altar calls.

Vulture ChoirRed MilkHigh Desert Hymn Gasoline HaloSnake Oil Cathedral
2025
Television Flowers EP art — red and black liquid vortex

TELEVISION FLOWERS

EP · 5 Tracks · 22 min

Late-night transmissions. Slower, stranger, swimming in tremolo — the record that taught the room to sway instead of shove.

Television FlowersDead Channel BloomStatic Lullaby
2024
Neon Sagebrush single art — glowing red guitar strings

NEON SAGEBRUSH

Single · Out Now

Three minutes of headlight crunch written on the road home from a Nevada festival at 4 a.m. The next chapter starts here.

Neon SagebrushB/W: Owyhee
2026
03 The Rites

COME Witness

The ritual only truly exists in a room full of people. Idaho first, then west.

AUG 02
Cougar Mountain Lodge
Private Party
Private Event
AUG 20
Vista Uptown Bar
Boise, ID
Tickets
04 Join the Ritual

FIRST TO Know

New rites, new records, secret basement shows. One transmission a month. No noise — we save that for the amps.

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