Various Artists – ‘Psychedelic States: Maryland In The 60s’ (2014)
For nearly twenty years, the Gear Fab label, located in Colorado, has been cranking out collections devoted to regional music scenes of the sixties. Patterned after the spirit...
Brown Spiders interview with “Weird Al” Jaco Wolmarans, Andrew Kapp and Andreas Schonfeldt
A while back I talked to one of South Africa’s leading garage rock outfits, The Make-Overs (Interview here) and they peeled back my skull cap, yanked out my...
Love – ‘Da Capo’ (1966)
Post-Byrds and pre-Doors, the toast of LA’s hipster scene was undoubtedly Love. With the songwriting power of main lead vocalist Arthur Lee and rhythm guitarist Bryan Maclean, Love...
Atomic Simao interview with Jora Valchuk, Dima Dudko, Nikita Gavrilenko, Andriy Volkoff and Andriy Dvoryashin
Atomic Simao represent a freedom seldom scene in the music industry these days. Harnessing powerfully psychedelic landscapes and melding them with rock and acid jazz, every song seems...
His Electro Blue Voice interview Francesco Mariani and Andrea Napoli
It’s loud, it’s brash, it’s noisy and experimental. It’s firmly planted in garage, punk, psych and experimental rock. It’s Electro Blue Voice. Needless to say, His Electro Blue...
“Enter At Your Own Risk…”, The Entrance Band @Stairway Club (Cascais, Por) 08/5/14 Live Report
© olhos«Ä»zumbir The 8th of May is marked as one of the most powerful gigs ever attended by your humble scribe. Anticipation was high amongst the crowd and,...
The Velvet Illusions interview
Hailing from Yakima, WA before relocating to Los Angeles in an effort to make their mark in the music industry, a group of teenagers under the tutelage of...
The Yolks interview with Nathan Johnson and Aaron Stringer
For almost eight years The Yolks have been cooking up hits in their mother’s basements, garages and other practice spaces which have carried this band into the legendary...
Bolder Damn interview with John Anderson
Bolder Damn formed in Fort Lauderdale (FL) in the late 1960s. Their album was released in 1971. Special thanks to Rich Haupt of Rockadelic Records who reissued their...
“Plowing through…”, Pontiak @Sabotage Club (Lisboa) 16/5/14 Live Report
In Portugal there is a radio show called 'A Floresta Encantada' (The Enchanted Forest) dedicated to the sounds of yore. Progressive and psychedelic sounds emerge weekly. The show's...