Space rock conjures up many images, most of which involve laser light shows and music as transport ships headed straight to Orion’s Belt or the nether regions of the Big Dipper. Pink Floyd took you there. So did Jim Hendrix, the Beatles (occasionally with songs like Flying which wandered far afield from just holding your hand), David Bowie and the Rolling Stones with 2000 Light Years from Home. But those are big name brands we’re talking about. Perhaps the pinnacle of gray matter space travel was Hawkwind with Space Oddity, a two-disc live album advertised as “88 minutes of brain-damage” documenting their 1972 tour complete with liquid lights and lasers, nude dancers, and psychedelic groove-o-meters.

For those who miss those days, can’t remember those days, or missed out on headspace travel completely, the Katharine Cornell Theatre is getting ready for blast off on Wednesday, August 31. No word on whether nude dancers will be in attendance, alas the 70’s are so long ago, but the Vacant Lots will be delivering on all other cylinders.

The Vacant Lots hail from the wooded confines of Burlington, Vermont. Somewhere and somehow, perhaps during long cold winters when all the wood for the woodstove had been burned, the musical duo turned to science and built a time machine ready to transport one back to the heyday of spacerock.

Pitchfork Magazine describes their recent single Confusion/Cadillac as, “Executed so efficiently, with just the right doses of studied apathy and simmering tension, that it’s difficult not to return to its ceaselessly repetitive groove again and again.”

Their performances evolve by combining minimal drumming, hypnotic guitar riffs, electronic drone, poetry-driven lyrics, and live film projections. Where else can you get all that in one evening’s performance

The show begins at exactly 7:48 p.m. for this all ages show which includes special guests, The Loogies.

Tickets cost $11 or $13 day of show and can be purchased at verypleasedtoannounce.com.

The Katharine Cornell Theatre is located at 54 Spring street in Vineyard Haven.