From The Vault: Pink Floyd – “The Wall” (1979)
It’s taken me years to write this review for The Wall, an album from the world’s premier psychedelic band, one that was anything but sweeping in its expanse,...
Lasso Spells – “Be What You Want” premiere
Lasso Spells breathes new life into old-school sounds, swirling together a range of influences — including garage rock, ‘60s and ‘70s psych, and cosmic country — into music...
‘Try A Little Sunshine’ (2018)
The popular interpretation of 1969’s musical landscape evokes a number of epochal keystones of recent collective memory. Woodstock, the Stones in Hyde Park and the Beatles performing on...
Alice In Chains – “Rainier Fog” (2018) review
Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog (BMG Rights Management LLC) Ok, here we go. Alice In Chains. In 2018. Their first album in half a decade. It’s a...
Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann - The Five Faces Of Manfred Mann, Mann Made, Mann Made Hits, Soul Of Mann (Umbrella Music LP/CD) These four “artist approved” albums constitute what is the earliest...
Echo and The Bunnymen – “The Stars, the Oceans & the Moon” (2018) review
Echo and The Bunnymen - The Stars, the Oceans & the Moon (BMG, 2018) We probably should have seen The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon coming, an album...
‘All You Need Is Fuzz’ (2018)
Garage bands, especially of the psychedelic variety, were a phenomenon that flourished in the 1960’s and saw a resurgence in the 1980’s. The lifespan of most was rather...
Dead Girl’s Party
“A cross between Dome and Roxy Music” Matt Krefting and Scott Foust, both key figures of the Western Massachusetts underground, but from a different generation, made one record...
Razen
The sleep-talking stories of American performance artist Bryan Lewis Saunders and the dream-like minimal music of Belgian drone band Razen blend well once again on 'The Night Receptionist'....
Weiland
“Weird cartoon music” Tim Wijnant released a brilliant Braindance 7” as Weiland on Knotwilg. The last record I bought from you was The Wide Album, which was 15...