All the friends that contributed were fantastic and it kept me a bit sane.

Right before the pandemic, BM was gearing up to start working on a new album then it was fantastic to have Dale & Steven McDonald involved in the record. “A few songs on Peacock Pools were in the Black Mountain queue. McBean recalls playing with Dale Crover and the process. Peacock Pools was made during lockdown times. Pink Mountaintops’ new album Peacock Pools features Melvins drummer Dale Crover, Steven McDonald of LA’s legendary Redd Kross, Joshua Wells (Destroyer, Lightning Dust, Emily Rose Epstein (Ty Segall), and Jeremy Schmidt (Black Mountain).Īfter a long relationship with American indie label Jagjaguwar, Dave Matthews’ ATO Records was the first label to jump at signing recent free agent Pink Mountaintops and McBean now finds himself in the same stable as Alabama Shakes, My Morning Jacket, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and beyond. McBean is catching up on the lost time of COVID restrictions and has toured relentlessly with both Pink Mountaintops and Black Mountain the last year on double bills with the likes of Primus and the Afghan Whigs.

Raised in Victoria and later a Vamcouverite in his early adult years, McBean now calls Los Angeles home. Both projects have been short-listed for the prestigious Polaris Prize awarded to the best album made in Canada Black Mountain’s In the Future in 2009 and Pink Mountaintops Get Back in 2014. McBean has become an underground Canadian icon and guitar hero of sorts the last 20 years or so as the frontman for the globally successful Black Mountain, alongside five wildly different and adventurous Pink Mountaintops albums sprinkled along the way. Comox Valley music fans are in for a real treat when Stephen McBean brings his unique psych-folk new wave stoner indie rock project Pink Mountaintops to the stage at the Waverley Hotel on Wednesday, April 12.

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