Mad Dancers: An Interview about Rediscovered ’70s Tapes
Emerging from Rockford, Illinois in the early 1970s, Mad Dancers stood apart from the bar-band circuit that defined much of the local scene. While “most people at that...
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Buzzard Interview: Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, and the End of the World
Buzzard operates in the fertile borderlands where acoustic confession meets doomed amplification, a self-described realm that’s “too folk to be metal and too metal to be folk.” The...
Forever Now: Eternity’s Children — High Moon Resurrects Two Lost Sunshine-Psych Southern Pop Masterpieces
How does a band from Cleveland, Mississippi end up recording with Curt Boettcher, touring with the Temptations and the Stones, and making a blink-and-you-miss-it appearance in The Graduate?...
Shelley Burgon on ‘The In Between’: An Intimate Conversation About Sound, Silence, and Place
With 'The In Between,' harpist and composer Shelley Burgon reimagines the instrument as a living voice, moving through time, air, and fading light. Recorded without amplification as evening...
Rock and Role Book: Joe Banks on Peter Hammill, Van der Graaf Generator and the Art of Endless Questions
Joe Banks portrays Peter Hammill as an artist driven above all by questioning, someone for whom songwriting is a way of thinking aloud. Even at his most ambitious,...
“Singing Through the Questions”: Georgia Duncan on ‘Four Ways To The Sun’
London songwriter Georgia Duncan has released her debut album, 'Four Ways To The Sun,' via Clonmell Jazz Social. It’s a personal record that weaves together folk and jazz...
Green Milk From The Planet Orange Launch European Tour, Still Chasing Catharsis After 25 Years
For 25 years, Tokyo trio Green Milk From The Planet Orange have pursued a vision of progressive rock rooted less in technical display and more in emotional impact...
Poly-Polyphonies & Psychedelia: The Charles Morogiello ‘Crush Depth’ Interview
For Charles Morogiello, the mastermind behind Spacefuzz, the new double LP 'Crush Depth' was kind of a survival mechanism. Conceived during the pandemic when his life "turned into...
Gran Moreno Premieres Debut Album ‘El Sol’
Austin’s Gran Moreno arrives with 'El Sol,' a captivating debut from the rising psych duo. As the first half of a conceptual diptych alongside the upcoming 'La Luna,'...
This Heat’s Charles Hayward Meets Dälek: Inside ‘HAYWARDxDÄLEK’
Charles Hayward of This Heat and Will Brooks, aka MC Dälek, joined forces to collide musical instincts at full velocity. Recorded largely live over two feverish days, the...