Name: Levitation Room, Billy and the Dreamboats
Start: 2026-05-08T20:00:00-06:00
Location: 538 Main Street Grand Junction CO 81501

Levitation Room, Billy and the Dreamboats

LEVITATION ROOM
In Los Angeles, where the weight and pressure of the city’s fast paced culture can make your legs feel like pillars, emerges psychedelic quartet, Levitation Room, to break the bonds of gravity with their cosmic wall of sound and thought provoking lyrics. “Just as their name suggests, Levitation Room’s music instills the listeners ears with a light feeling of floating. The dreamy guitar and Lo-Fi projections of psychedelic rock and garage are reminiscent of a deep 1960’s era, but still grounded in an alternative dreamgaze flavor that permeates modern indie music today.” - OC Weekly. Their decidedly hallucinogenic songs whisper and hum the same gentle refrain of their summer of love influences, conjuring up the cognitive imagery of sunny days at the park, spent with friends in a euphoric haze along with lyrical and sonic meditations on life, love, society and self-awareness.

In tradition, and much like the bands and musical troubadours that inspired them, Levitation Room started out with late night jam sessions in a dimly lit garage between fellow musicians and long time friends, Julian Porte and Gabriel Fernandez. Julian, a dedicated street musician who felt he needed a broader platform, found chemistry with Gabriel, who he knew as a guitar player in various teenage punk and garage bands around town. Coming together in 2012, they bonded over a shared love of British Invasion groups (The Beatles, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones) and 1960’s psychedelic outfits like The Grateful Dead, Electric Prunes, The Pretty Things and began drafting their earliest tunes. It wasn’t until the late summer of 2012, that the band came to fruition when they found a rhythm section in two individuals with almost identical names; drummer, Johnathan Martin, and bassist, Jonathathan Martin. The four began writing songs, playing gigs and recording music out of a quaint studio in East LA.

After the release of their self recorded demo “Levitation Room Vol. 1”, they quickly began gaining momentum and performing at local music venues throughout Southern California. 2015 saw the release of their first official debut EP “Minds Of Our Own” released on Burger Records. Later in the spring of 2016, they released their first full length album, “Ethos”, with the help of their friend and new keyboardist, Glenn Brigman, who recorded and helped produce the record. Since 2014, Levitation Room has participated in various shows, tours and music festivals across the US and Europe and continues to see the growth in listeners and followers on YouTube, Soundcloud and Spotify (with nearly 2 million plays on their song “Friends”). With the promise of a potentially bright future, Levitation Room has begun to mix and finalize their second album that they hope will display their process of maturity in sound and song- writing, exploring new territories of influence in music and instrumentation, combining folk, jazz, raga, soul, pop and of course… psychedelia. Stay tuned!

BILLY AND THE DREAMBOATS
Seattle-based band Billy and the Dreamboats craft dreamy, 1960s-inspired pop that blends lush melodies with introspective lyrics. Their sound draws from the atmospheric haze of shoegaze and the melodic sensibilities of indie pop, creating music that feels nostalgic without sounding retro.
With a warm, immersive approach to songwriting and arrangement, their songs are ideal for listeners who appreciate introspective, vintage-inspired pop with a modern emotional core.
Billy and the Dreamboats are currently on an album release tour in support of their forthcoming full-length record, How Did You Get Here? The tour showcases new material alongside selections from their catalog, marking a new chapter for the band as they bring this release to the stage.

FOREST RAY
Psych folk rock band Forest Ray began as a recording project in 2015, combining guitar-driven psych rock with elements of garage rock, folk rock, and organ-laden pop. They’ve been described as “Brit-pop gone country” or as “…The Band covering Beatles songs no one knew existed” (Tony Kay, Washington’s Artist Home blog).
The group’s sound has evolved from ’60s psychedelic garage rock into spaced-out, down-to-earth rock ’n’ roll that feels “like a perfect companion for a long, dusty road trip” (KEXP, Chris Sanley).