You Can’t Franchise Devotion: Inside Japan’s Jazz Kissa
Jazz kissa are often presented outside Japan as mysterious places governed by strict habits and an almost religious attitude towards sound. That image is not entirely false, but...
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Dead Meadow Unearth Two Decades of Recordings on ‘Foundlings’
We are pleased to premiere ‘Foundlings,’ a new collection of rarities, covers and previously unreleased recordings from Dead Meadow. ‘Foundlings’ is not a conventional new Dead Meadow album....
Joachim Kühn: “The Best Improvisation Happens When Your Head Is Completely Empty”
Joachim Kühn has spent more than six decades pursuing musical freedom, but the freedom in his playing has always been founded on discipline. Born in Leipzig in 1944,...
Les Rallizes Dénudés and Japan’s Psychedelic Underground: Makoto Kubota on Takashi Mizutani, ‘Disque 4’ and the Lost Years
For most of their existence, the Japanese band Les Rallizes Dénudés left remarkably little official evidence behind them. Their music circulated through copied tapes, bootlegs and incomplete live...
‘Mirrors, Shapes, Objects’ by Michael Columbia
Exclusive album premiere of ‘Mirrors, Shapes, Objects,’ the new album by Michael Columbia, out July 31, 2026, on vinyl and digitally via Cuneiform Records. Emerging from the stylistic...
Ross Beattie presents It’s Psychedelic Baby podcast #122 (July)
Embark on a journey through the kaleidoscopic landscapes of sound, guided by the rhythms of the past and present, with The Night Tripper’s podcast. Chat Pile- Deep BlueFirefriend-...
Sister Double Happiness Interview: Gary Floyd, the San Francisco Underground and the 1988 Debut
Sister Double Happiness formed in San Francisco in the second half of the 1980s. Gary Floyd and Lynn Perko-Truell had previously played together in the Dicks, while guitarist...
Quicksilver Messenger Service | Riding the Psychedelic Trail from 1967 to 1972 | ‘Who Do You Love: The Recordings 1967–1972’ Box Set Review
In a four year span between May 1968 and April 1972 San Francisco psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service released seven albums on Capitol Records. Cherry Red Records,...
Serguei Spoutnik Interview: Memory, Identity and the Making of ‘Transcend’
French electronic musician Serguei Spoutnik made 'Transcend' from a series of recordings begun during a seven-day residency in Reykjavík. Working with a different borrowed synthesizer each day, alongside...
‘Stranded in the Future’ by Robyn Hitchcock | A Surreal Journey Through 1968–78
Following up on his 2024 autobiography that covered the singular year of 1967, Robyn Hitchcock (73 years young at present) has now offered personal recollections from the next...