Allah-Las – Allah Las (2012) review
Allah-Las - “Allah Las” (Innovative Leisure 2012) Once upon a time, when a warm enchanting sun rose and set around just me, a bit of musical wanderlust floated in...
Jenell Kesler
The Black Angels – ‘Indigo Meadow’ (2013)
Indigo Meadow, filled with spacey hypnotic splendor, channels the mystic ethereal delights of The Doors and early Pink Floyd, overflowing the grooves with a heartbeat pounding bass that...
Gene Clark – Here Tonight: The White Light Demos (2013) review
Here Tonight: The White Light Demos or White Light Demons as I continually misread the title, but that may just be a series of Freudian slips on my...
Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius – Selected Studies Vol. 1 (2013) review
Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Selected Studies Vol. 1 (Bureau B, 2013) Unless you’re Brian Eno, electronic / ambient music is all too often overlooked, even if...
The Soft Moon – Zeros (2012) review
The Soft Moon’s release of Zero’s is a tour de force excursion into the dream-state of music, where they’ve managed to take the footprints set down by the...
My Bloody Valentine – m b v (2013) review
It’s been 22 years, that’s more than a generation since My Bloody Valentine dropped their last release [Loveless] on us, and I tell you true, over the years,...
The Growlers – Hung at Heart (2013) review
Once upon a time there was a party-band called The Grateful Dead, and while most Growlers' fans don’t have the foggiest idea who The Dead are, The Growlers...
Chuck Prophet – ‘Temple Beautiful’ (2012)
For my way of thinking, there are only three records that are about cities, the life in those cities, the culture, the times, the excesses, the joy, the...
Canyonlands – The Tree Stood Up to the Lightning (2012) review
The Tree Stood Up To The Lightning is a remarkable neo-psychedelic EP filled with sonic droning, shifting analog distortion, tribal drumming, and hazy visionary lyrics that are seemingly...
The Sand Pebbles – A Thousand Wild Flowers (2009) review
Anything I could tell you about The Sand Pebbles release “A Thousand Wild Flowers” would be an understatement ... so if you’re a fan of psychedelic progressive music...