The Warlocks start off Arroyo Secodelic joined by Martin Brothers Trio (members of Brainstory), Mike Watt & The Secondmen, Cinnamon, Cissi TV, and DJ Boogie Boudreaux.
One night only at the Highland Park Ebell Theater
Friday May 22nd
Tickets on sale now 🎟️⚡️
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This show will be at Highland Park Ebell. 131 S Ave 57, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Lodge Room & Arroyo Music Announce Arroyo Secodelic Festival (May 22 to 24)
3-Day Rock & Roll Party ft. Fear, Flamin’ Groovies, Adolescents, Levitation Room & More
The Lodge Room and Los Angeles startup Arroyo Music are launching the Arroyo Secodelic Festival this May 22nd to 24th, 2026, featuring a frenetic and fuzzy array of rock & roll artists stretching across generations —including three of Southern California’s finest first wave punk bands, Lee Ving’s FEAR, OC royalty Adolescents, and pioneering punk bassist Mike Watt; as well as San Francisco power pop icons Flamin’ Groovies and LA psych-rockers The Warlocks. The three day festival will take place across multiple venues on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles’ Highland Park neighborhood, including The Lodge Room, Oblivion, Highland Park Ebell, and Cheerio Collective.
In addition to legacy acts, this fledgling event places an emphasis on emerging rock & roll, with heavy doses of psychedelia, punk, and garage rock. Seattle all-girl garage band The Darts will be supporting the Flamin’ Groovies at the Lodge Room on opening night, and Venice’s finest party starters Strawberry Fuzz will top a Saturday night Lodge Room bill that includes Death Valley Girls and Flat Worms. Arroyo Secodelic is also proud to honor Highland Park’s Latino music roots, with appearances from the neighborhoods finest groove band Agua, El Sereno’s Windows; as well as two staples of Mexico’s new wave of rock music: Oaxaca art-pop outfit Valgur, Tijuana’s Axxident, and Mexico City grunge band Vondré. Several more established & rising acts from the Los Angeles music scene will be making appearances at this amplified event – Reggie Watts, OP ED, Cameron Romance, The Silverados, Cissi TV, and The Flamenco Souls.
Arroyo Secodelic is also proud to be partnering & curating with several musical institutions, including Creem Magazine, Mexico City’s La Bestia Radio and psychedelic festival Desert Daze. ARROYO SECODELIC 2026 LINE-UP
Expect further announcements from the Lodge Room and the Arroyo Secodelic team in the months ahead, including community engagements, lineup additions, special events and more.
Tickets are available for purchase here. Enjoy the playlist featuring this year’s artists HERE.
Great interview for @godisinthetvzine by @caththewriter about the new album and oh so much more! Link In Bio! "The Warlocks release the new album this week. It’s bloody glorious, written in hours and recorded quickly, over four days. The songs came out of nowhere Bobby says, after period of creative inactivity in which he felt like maybe he was done making records. ‘Nothing was coming,’ he reports simply. Then he moved house – one of the most stressful experiences a human can go through, note – and was sat in the very same room he talks to me today. ‘I don’t know how to explain it, but I just had this built up feeling of anxiety. I was in this regular old room, not that exciting, just a desk.’ The songs came. In one day. ‘One after another. I have the pages here. I wrote it all down, and then it was done. It was like a gift or a beam of light. It never happens, all in a row like that. Hence, manic excessive!"
WILL RELEASE THE ALBUM THE MANIC EXCESSIVE SOUNDS OF
ON 1ST AUGUST ON CLEOPATRA RECORDS
WILL TOUR THE UK AND EUROPE IN AUGUST
The Warlocks return with their 14th studio album The Manic Excessive Sounds Of, released on 1st August on Cleopatra Records. Today they share the new single You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart. They tour the UK this August as part of an extensive European tour.
“Sometimes one has to wonder if marriage can really work in these modern times,” says frontman Bobby Hecksher, as he discusses the new single ‘You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart’. “Everything is 24-7 stress, work, band, friends/text/social media, toss a baby in there and things can get fried pretty fast. This song is about exactly that. Everything melting and on display and all you’re trying to do is pick up the pieces and make everything work. My favorite line is “A normal circumstance for me well, what do we do again? To make us feel blue again, to make us fall in love again.””
Veteran purveyors of a relentless, hypnotic wall of sound that suggests a collision between classic psychedelia, Krautrock and The Velvet Underground, the LA band unleash their manic excessive sounds on what might be their wildest, weirdest offering yet!
A journey into the ether and outer limits, The Manic Excessive Sounds Of was written, says Hecksher, in a single day, hence its title.
A gear shifting, mind melting, twist and turn bending of genre and expectations, it is the sound of The Warlocks exploring our paranoid times through huge rock chords and choruses, delicious distortion through a modern psychedelia lens. The opener ‘Its A Fucked-Up World’ says it all, while the band’s new single ‘You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart’ offers everyone a sneak peek into the mayhem that’s to come.
But, Bobby continues, “This album is a positive one, and it totally rocks in the best way, too. It’s about cherishing the things that matter – the ones around you, the people you love and dealing with those relationships that are oh so frail. Hopefully this album gives one inspiration, ammunition and hope to navigate the insane backdrop of our modern times.”
LIVE DATES
1.8.25 DE BERLIN Neue Zukunft
2.8.25 DE BELEEN Krach Am Bach Festival
5.8.25 UK BIRMINGHAM Castle & Falcon
6.8.25 UK LONDON O2 Academy2 Islington
7.8.25 UK GLASGOW The Rum Shack
8.8.25 UK MANCHESTER Yes
9.8.25 UK STOWMARKET John Peel Center
10.8.25 UK SOUTHAMPTON Heartbreakers
11.8.25 UK SHEFFIELD Sidney & Matilda
12.8.25 UK CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach
13.8.25 UK HASTINGS The Piper
15.8.25 DE MARIENTHAL Hoflarm Festival
17.8.25 FR MONTPELLIER Secret Place
19.8.25 ES BILBAO Kafe Antzokia
20.8.25 ES MADRID The 27 Club
21.8.25 ES SAN SEBASTIAN Dabadaba
22.8.25 FR BORDEAUX Reláche Festival
23.8.25 FR MONTESQUIOU On The Rocks Festival
24.8.25 FR PÉRIGUEX Le Moulin du Rousseau
26.8.25 FR MARSEILLE Le Molotov
28.8.25 FR STRASBOURG La Grenze
29.8.25 CH VEVEY Nox Orae Festival
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Preorder Link Here I think its some of our best work in a long time and we can't wait for all of you to check it out! It's a TRIP! Tour is right around the corner and we are looking forward to playing for you soon. xoxo BH, JC, EM, MS, OR, RC, EY
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L.A.’s preeminent indie psych rock institution, The Warlocks, scale the deepest depths and the highest heights on this monumentally transcendent new album!
A truly bipolar album that splits its running time between emotionally engrossing, traditionally arranged songs and improv-heavy, loosely structured jams Warlocks fans know and love!
The band launches their 4-week European tour on album release day that takes them from Germany to the UK, across France, into Spain and beyond!
Bobby Hecksher – vocals, guitar, omnichord, percussion
JC Rees – guitar @the_jcrees
Earl V. Miller – guitar @earlvmiller
Marlena Schwenck – bass @thebitchinkitten
Oscar Ruvalcaba – drums @ossshhhker
Rob Campanella – keyboards, synths, lap steel, guitar @mrrobbyboy
Elina Yakubova – tambourine, percussion @eyakubova
produced by Bobby Hecksher & Rob Campanella
engineered and mixed by Rob Campanella
tracked at SGV Sound Studio @sgvsound engineered by Steve McClintic @audiomeow & Rik Collins @rnrcrusader
artwork by Tony Gianni at Brain Dead Design @braindead_design
band photo by Alex Amoros @alex_amoros
layup by Fred Aching @fredachingdrums
2025 Cleopatra Records @cleopatrarecords
Updated tour dates below! Poster art by @braindead_design poster layup by @fredachingdesign band photo @alex_amoros
Los Angeles psych-rock veterans @thewarlocks return to Europe this August with a brand new tour and a new album on the way via @cleopatrarecords
Led by Bobby Hecksher, The Warlocks have spent the last decades crafting hypnotic, fuzz-drenched soundscapes that channel the spirit of the Velvet Underground, krautrock minimalism, and drone-heavy psychedelia. Their live shows are an immersive, noisy ride into the darker side of rock’n’roll.
We can't wait to play for you! Xox BH, JCR, EM, MS, OR, RC, EY
1.8.25 DE BERLIN Neue Zukunft
2.8.25 DE BELEEN Krach Am Bach Festival
5.8.25 UK BIRMINGHAM Castle & Falcon
6.8.25 UK LONDON O2 Academy2 Islington
7.8.25 UK GLASGOW The Rum Shack
8.8.25 UK MANCHESTER Yes
9.8.25 UK STOWMARKET John Peel Center
10.8.25 UK SOUTHAMPTON Heartbreakers
11.8.25 UKSHEFFIELD Sidney & Matilda
12.8.25 UK CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach
13.8.25 UK HASTINGS The Piper
15.8.25 DE MARIENTHAL Hoflarm Festival
17.8.25 FR MONTPELLIER Secret Place
19.8.25 ES BILBAO Kafe Antzokia
20.8.25 ES MADRID The 27 Club
21.8.25 ES SAN SEBASTIAN Dabadaba
22.8.25 FR BORDEAUX Reláche Festival
23.8.25 FR MONTESQUIOU On The Rocks Festival
24.8.25 FR PÉRIGUEX Le Moulin du Rousseau
26.8.25 FRMARSEILLE Le Molotov
28.8.25 FR STRASBOURG La Grenze
29.8.25 CH VEVEY Nox Orae Festival
Our record release party for “The Manic Excessive Sounds Of” happens at the one and only Gold Diggers @golddiggersla on July 26th. Our show is presented by all the fine folks at Desert Daze @desertdaze_official Very limited capacity –only holds 100 so get your tickets ASAP. Link in bio. The new record comes out in AUG on Cleopatra Records @cleopatrarecords Band photo by @piperferguson Cheers! BH JC EM MS OR RC EY @the_jcrees @earlvmiller @thebitchinkitten @ossshhhker @mrrobbyboy @eyakubova light show by @slimreaperlightshow
Our new single “It’s A Fucked-Up World” from our forthcoming album “The Manic Excessive Sounds Of” is out now on all streaming platforms. I pretty much wrote the whole thing in a one day and flushed it out over a couple of evenings hence “Manic Excessive”. Songs never come at me that fast from ether! It was like writing down a dream or something as fast as I can. I played this on acoustic for my wife Marianne (and my daughter Diana!) and she was like “YOU HAVE TO RECORD THIS”! As fate would have it I just ran into an old friend, Rik Collins from the 2000s. He was in the last version of The Seeds with Sky Saxon and The Warlocks and The Seeds did a few shows together. We hit it off great and turns out Rik has an amazing studio right by my house. With the addition of Marlena on Bass the star alignment couldn’t be better. The sessions were super fun and the whole process was recorded and mixed pretty quickly. Enjoy!
Bobby Hecksher – vocals, guitar, omnichord, percussion
JC Rees – guitar @the_jcrees
Earl V. Miller – guitar @earlvmiller
Marlena Schwenck – bass @thebitchinkitten
Oscar Ruvalcaba – drums @ossshhhker
Rob Campanella – keyboards, synths, lap steel, guitar @mrrobbyboy
Elina Yakubova – tambourine, percussion @eyakubova
produced by Bobby Hecksher & Rob Campanella
engineered and mixed by Rob Campanella
tracked at SGV Sound Studio @sgvsound engineered by Steve McClintic @audiomeow & Rik Collins @rnrcrusader
artwork by Tony Gianni at Brain Dead Design @braindead_design
band photo by Alex Amoros @alex_amoros
layup by Fred Aching @fredachingdrums
2025 Cleopatra Records @cleopatrarecords
