"abstract spiritualism, smoky avant-strum, and cracked keystone lyricism..."
BIO
The Lodestones bring you songs from the land of darkness and astral twilight, from the deepest corner of the American nightmare, and from the altars along the road to love and eternity. Steeped in the deep tea of DIY punk, noise, and experimental sound, The Lodestones emerge as something direct, definite, and intentional, while drawing from various folk musics of America and the world.
Songwriter, poet, film maker, audio engineer Jeffrey Rocketmild met artist Dena Goldsmith-Stanley while performing solo as 3 Moons in Portland Oregon in 2011. The pair soon began a collaboration and moved into a battered RV, touring and traveling extensively, writing and performing plays, psychedelic improvisational sound, and songs, before settling in the Bay Area in 2013. In addition to performing as the Lodestones, the two joined the Santa Cruz based freak folk institution Village of Spaces, and are currently touring internationally as members of Jackie O Motherfucker.