Alex Maas (The Black Angels) -- Levitation Session, Today at 7PM CT / 5pm PST

LEVITATION SESSIONS PRESENTS: ALEX MAAS An intimate performance from The Black Angels’ frontman filmed in Bastrop, TX. The set includes selects off his new album ‘Luca’ + three unreleased songs. PREMIERING TODAY @ 7PM CST / 5pm PST REVEALS SESSION SNEAK PEAK WITH NEW TRACK “TOO MUCH HATE” SESSION TO BE RELEASED ON ALL DIGITAL RETAILERS APRIL 9  + VINYL SUMMER 2021 VIA THE REVERBERATION APPRECIATION SOCIETY

Artwork by Real Fun Wow  In late 2020, Alex Maas - best known as the frontman for psych rock powerhouse The Black Angels - released Luca, an album of mellow psychedelia named after his son. With tours on hold, Alex and his band decamped to Bastrop, TX to bring the live show they had developed for the album to the world via this performance film, shot in the city’s historic downtown. Alex explains, “We shot this down in an old opera house built in 1889 and a 100 year old German tailor mercantile building in historic downtown, which is now Astro Records. This session is a glimpse of what a tour on Luca would look like had we not been in a pandemic. It was a joy to get out and get back with the friends and collaborators I created this album with, and bring these songs to life. For now this is the world tour, and a look at what we’re looking forward to being able to do on stage when we are back up and rolling! Thank you to Jonas Wilson of Mr. Pink records who asked me originally to film this in the beautiful city of Bastrop."  The performance film premieres Saturday, March 27 at 7PM CST and features selects from Luca, along with three new tracks from his songbook, seen here for the first time, and performed with some of the collaborators he created the album with: Bryan Richie, Jake Garcia, Rob Kidd. These songs have been crafted over a decade in quiet moments between tours and albums with The Black Angels, are finally being released in the live setting on Levitation Sessions. Today you can catch a sneak peek of the session and one of the new songs -- “Too Much Hate”. Alex on “Too Much Hate”: "I tried to touch on a few things on this song that would attempt to identify things that make the world more beautiful. I’ve been trying to give solutions and not just speak about the cancer that is eating our culture. Some problems of society are rooted in how we raise our children, how we treat each other and quick uninformed decisions when people shoot from the hip as opposed to sitting back and thinking rationally about how to act instead of reacting." In addition to tickets to the streaming show, you can grab an audio download of the session, plus limited edition cassettes and t-shirts with art by Real Fun Wow, available exclusively as part of the stream. You can also grab a package that includes all that plus a limited edition vinyl pressing LP, signed by the band.  Levitation Sessions Presents Alex Maas will be released across digital retailers April 9 and vinyl early this summer. Luca is available now on Innovative Leisure and Basin Rock. WATCH + SHARE “TOO MUCH HATE” VIA YOUTUBE

LEVITATION SESSIONS TICKET OPTIONS $3.98 | stream ticket $9.98 | stream + lossless WAV + 320 KBPS MP3 download ADD-ONS $100 | cassette + shirt + LP signed by the band $49.98 | signed screenprinted poster $37.98 | cassette + t-shirt $23.98 | live album LP $27.98 | t-shirt $13.98 | cassette The live LP pressing on bronze and turquoise colored vinyl, T-shirts, posters and cassettes are limited editions only available as part of the stream.

Press Photo By Barbara FG  Praise for Alex Maas and Luca: "Alex Maas possesses one of the most timeless voices in Austin music and now you can really hear it....his voice pierces vintage pop landscape."- Austin Chronicle (Read the Cover Story) "Since they began to reverberate from Austin 16 years ago, The Black Angels have plumbed the sonic worlds of the dark and the heavy, but Luca is something different: more organic, sparser and weirder." - Uncut "Having upheld the Texas tradition of the 13th Floor Elevators-style lysergic emanations with The Black Angels, Alex Maas has gone deep into himself for a beautiful solo debut..."[Luca] combines considered, personal songwriting with a late-'60s edge of hazy paranoia, most of it informed by the joys and responsibilities of fatherhood." - Mojo "Maas pursuing a much quieter and more intimate sound that forgoes feedback squalls in favor of a tighter focus on his lyrics and high tenor vocals." - Austin American Statesman "’Been Struggling’ is pretty far from the JAMC-descended fuzz of The Black Angels, opting instead for lightly psychedelic folk rock." - Brooklyn Vegan “Luca serves as a poignant yet well executed document fueled by unconditional love and despair at the current state of the world.” - Under The Radar “Here is one of the quieter releases of 2020, but also one of the best. Alex Maas is the singer in the Black Angels, heavy rock stalwarts from Austin, Texas, and on his solo debut he combines druggy, late-1960s paranoia with intimate, heartfelt songwriting.” - The London Times Alex Maas Instagram :: Levitation-Austin.com Instagram Facebook Twitter