Tame Impala Date: June 6, 2015 Venue: Echostage, Washington, DC It's pretty fun, and increasingly rare, to get on board early with a promising new rock band and watch them rise from relative obscurity to international super-stardom in the short span of five years. I'm talking about psychedelic rockers Tame Impala, all the way from Perth, Australia. I fell hard for this band when I downloaded their debut album, Innerspeaker , on a whim in the summer of 2010 (my curiosity initially piqued by a sweet album cover that reflected the woozy lava-lamp sound inside) and caught them live with a small crowd of early converts at the divey Black Cat just down the street from my apartment. I saw them again six months later with a much larger crowd at the same venue, then two years on at a sold out gig at the 1,200 capacity 9:30 Club with the release of their sophomore album Lonerism . This past weekend, just a couple months ahead of their third album release Currents , I was fortu
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