‘Heavy Petting’ at 55: Dr. Strangely Strange Take Psych Folk Further
By the time 'Heavy Petting' appeared in September 1970, Dr. Strangely Strange were already slipping out of the place that had made them. Not in any dramatic, career...
Turned To Stone: Chapter 10 feels like one long session from SoftSun and Ten East, tied to Yawning Man and Earthless
Turned To Stone: Chapter 10 arrives April 10 on Ripple Music, bringing together SoftSun and Ten East for a split that barely feels like one. Gary Arce sits...
Inside ‘Keep On Rising’: Mrs. Henry’s All-In Rock Opera Gamble
Mrs. Henry don’t ease you into 'Keep On Rising.' It just drops you in the middle of it. Thirty-eight songs, three acts, one overstuffed rock opera about a...
Mixol Announces Debut EP ‘The Fool’ with Lead Single ‘we jump, our carnival’
Beijing-born, Boston- and Tokyo-trained artist Mixol announces her debut EP 'The Fool,' along with its first single, 'we jump, our carnival,' a fierce, full-body track that taps into...
Golden Samphire Band Announce ‘Dream Is the Driver,’ Share ‘Chalk Space’
Golden Samphire Band, the Sussex trio of Mik and Rich Hanscomb and Hannah Lewis, will release their debut album 'Dream Is the Driver' this spring via Wayside &...
Void Resurfaces: Lost Hardcore Punk Recordings from DC’s Outer Edge — Interview
Void’s 'Live 1982' is out now on Outer Battery Records, finally bringing two long-buried DC recordings into the open. For a long time, these recordings barely existed as...
Robin Trower on the Live! 50th Anniversary Reissue: The Night in Stockholm, As It Really Happened
Fifty years on, 'Live!' comes back sounding less like the record we thought we knew, and more like what actually happened. Out on 3 April through Chrysalis, the...
Sunglaciers Turn Inward on ‘Ballad for Eddy’ from ‘Spiritual Content’
Sunglaciers don’t overplay their hand on 'Ballad for Eddy.' The track, taken from their new album 'Spiritual Content,' moves with a kind of unforced calm, settling into a...
Atom Lux Unveils Psychedelic New Single ‘Zombie Ant Fungus Strike’ Ahead of Upcoming EP
There’s something pleasingly off-kilter about the latest transmission from Rome-based multi-instrumentalist Lucio Filizola, operating under the Atom Lux banner. Newly aligned with Octopus Rising (Argonauta’s more exploratory arm),...
The Fighting Side Tap Southern Gothic on ‘Sinner’
Upon the first few seconds, I’m immediately transported to the South, carried into a world that feels like I’m in old-time cotton fields, then hearing soul brought through...