Live: The Entrance Band

With raw psychedelic rock and Eastern and blues influences, the Entrance Band may open ears and minds.

When Los Angeles-based psychedelic rock trio the Entrance Band plays a show, it's a happening. Not only because band members take sound and style inspiration from the '60s counterculture that coined the term, as they demonstrated during a short set Sunday at the new Arthur Magazine Sunday Evenings music series at McCabe's in Santa Monica. But also because their music creates the feeling that something fresh and powerful is afoot. A potent mix of political mindedness -- including a few conspiracy theories -- and musical virtuosity, their songs throb and wail and strive to open minds.