Julie Edwards and Lindsey Troy of the Los Angeles-based band Deap Vally thrive on destroying the preconceptions of a crowd.
The duo, armed with heavily distorted guitars and the thunderous drums, began in 2011 and have shared the stage with the likes of Blondie, Garbage, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens of the Stone Age and other notable rock acts. But one of their biggest joys as performers has been winning over the fans of their idols and friends by putting on a show often involving outlandish costumes and the rock and roll that concertgoers would expect to experience at stadium gigs.
“I just feel like we would walk out, and they’d be looking at us, and they’d have a total set of ideas of what was about to happen and literally every single time, we demolished and decimated all those ideas with what we actually did,” Edwards said during an interview earlier this month. “Lindsay and I are just rock and rollers, and it’s very authentic and real to us to put on a high-octane rock show. I wish that (those preconceived notions) would change and I think it was changing, but it was fun to really subvert everybody’s expectations on those huge support tours.”
Despite the years of fun rocking on stage together, the band will bid farewell with their final tour, which began in the fall and has been broken up into sections to spend more time with their children at home. The last hometown performance for Deap Vally will take place at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 9.
“It’s so drawn out, so instead of being condensed in this emotional period, it keeps going and going,” Edwards said. “I think by the time we’re wrapping up North America, maybe it’ll start to really feel real or when we’re approaching the end of the U.K. leg of the European tour. That’s when it’s really going to be like, ‘This is it.’”
As the Edwards and Troy finish up their tour and go out on their separate paths (Edwards will pursue a degree in…
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