Woodwall – Woodempire (2013) review
Woodwall "Woodempire" (Red Sound Records, 2013) A ritual began, a summoning, the stoner metal album ‘Woodempire’ by the band Woodwall. It was intuition and I liked it right...
Electric Shepherd – The Imitation Garden (2012) review
Electric Shepherd “The Imitation Garden” (2012) Let us all be sheep... What if the 80's existed without technological innovations and 70's record production values? Ever since the inception...
Black Bombaim interview with Tojo Rodrigues
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400"] © Analog Nights[/caption] Black Bombaim is one of those well kept secrets, obsessively followed by those that know and respect them, that the rest...
Drinking Flowers – Sanity Restored 1972 (2013) review
Drinking Flowers “Sanity Restored 1972” (Lolipop/Secret People, 2013) No, it’s not some long lost artifact from the transitional period when psychedelia grew more progressive. This L.A. quintet brings...
Twentieth Century Zoo interview
The 20th Century Zoo released one of the fuzziest records. Thunder on a Clear Day was released in 1968 on Vault Records. Paul "Skip" Ladd: Fuzziest records, ok...
Grateful Dead – Sunshine Daydream: Veneta Oregon 8/27/72 (2013) review
Grateful Dead "Sunshine Daydream: Veneta Oregon 8/27/72" (Rhino, 2013) Twenty years ago this review would have taken on an entirely different flavor, and back in '72, fresh off...
Cheap Wine interview with Valentin Lallart & Valentin Contestin
Grab a bottle of wine, fulfill your pipe and enjoy the ride. Here are Cheap Wine and they play heavy blues rock! Valentin Contestin - Guitar Mathieu Devillers...
Dean Wareham – ‘Emancipated Hearts’ (2013)
Enigmatic lo-fi dream-pop hipster Dean Wareham has wandered in with a new romantic 10" solo album that touches all the right nerves, and pushes all the right buttons,...
Trevor and The Joneses – There Was Lightning (2013) review
Trevor and The Joneses “There Was Lightning” (Self-released, 2013) Sometimes spending too much time in the sun can be a good thing. Even Bruce Springsteen claimed “that’s where...
Outer Minds interview with Zach Medearis
There aren’t many bands that I can put on that genuinely interest both me and my father, as far as contemporary bands go at least. Most of them...