The Universal is a psychedelic space rock band from Boise, ID. New album "Everything is Everywhere" coming soon. We play music that stands in direct opposition to the mega-media-music-hydra; Swords raised and gleaming with a magical aura - ready to fight for what we believe is a good time. Stoner rock meets space rock with a sprinkling of magical mars dust. Contemplative, silly and irreverent. We are driven by art, meaning and melody. These are the brushes with which we stimulate textures to appear in the air as waveforms reaching the eardrums. Once reaching the inner ear, these textures realize their true forms once again as symbols, interpreted many different ways by as many different brains. It is not a jigsaw puzzle where all of the pieces fit together neatly. Rather, there are many different puzzles with pieces mixed together, with the possibility of many new and wildly different puzzles being constructed from the melange of pieces. We like songs, but deny formulae. Songs are like little pills...they can fix what's wrong with you and they can just really fuck you up. We like both kinds.