Bob Dylan and The Band – The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes – Raw (2014) review
Bob Dylan and The Band - The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes - Raw (Legacy, 2014) I've been toying with the Basement Tapes since I first...
Jenell Kesler
Pink Floyd – The Endless River (2014) review
Pink Floyd "The Endless River" (Parlophone, 2014) Pink Floyd never made it to the 50 year mark, but they got close, and “close” is more than I can...
Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky’s Edge (2012) review
Richard Hawley "Standing at the Sky's Edge" (Parlophone, 2012) Without dropping his romantic persona, Hawley takes a step both sideways and back, harking visions of his neo-psychedelic, neo-hippy...
The Lemon Drops – Sunshower Flower Power (2009) review
The Lemon Drops "Sunshower Flower Power" (Cicadelic Records, 2009) This little gem winged onto my stereo like a half forgotten dream, turning the calendar pages backwards to 1967...
The Sand Pebbles – Dark Magic (2011) review
The Sand Pebbles "Dark Magic" (2011) In another time and another place, say the latter half of the 1960’s, fueled by Sandoz Blue, and other substances heretofore lost...
Soft Speaker – ‘Øvrevoll Racecourse’ (2014)
So there I was in the middle of the wasteland, barreling down the empty highway headed west on Inner State 60, the sun’s just slipped behind the mountains,...
The Orange Drop – Drone Pop (2014) reviews
The Orange Drop "Drone Pop" (2014) Shimmering in an indigo blue sky, between the heavy velvet drapes of my bedroom window, drapes that are gently riding on a...
Secret Colours – Positive Distractions (2014) review
Secret Colours "Positive Distractions" (2014) If I could say just one thing about the Positive Distractions, the new release from the Chicago based neo-psych band Secret Colours, it’s...
Quilt – Quilt (2011) review
Quilt "Quilt" (Mexican Summer, 2011) I’ve gotten rather tired of asking myself why reviewers need to connect some artificial dots and timeline, suggesting that new psych bands are...
Elephant Stone – ‘Elephant Stone’ (2013)
Much like the work George Harrison did in the 60’s, on all of The Beatles albums, Elephant Stone weave an eclectic exotic mix of classic psychedelic rock, along...