Lightning Bolt

Bridging the worlds of technical playing and noise chaos with a color and imagination unlike any other band, Providence, Rhode Island duo Lightning Bolt began their hypnotic pummeling in the mid-'90s and grew to become one of the most powerful and unique entities in the indie scene. Barely recognizable bass tones and unrelenting drums played in telekinetic lockstep defined the band's sound on albums like their 2003 high-water mark Wonderful Rainbow. Lightning Bolt first took shape in 1995 as a three-piece art school project. Initially, Brian Chippendale's explosive, nonstop ...