Psych for Sore Eyes (2012) review
The blurry album jacket is the front cover of the best-looking record you will see this year. It’s for the Psych For Sore Eyes EP, and it's being...
Jenell Kesler
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill (2012) review
Neil Young began this psychedelic saga while rambling through his past in search of material for his book Waging Heavy Peace, a book that’s both compelling, labored, and...
Spiritualized – ‘Sweet Heart Sweet Light’ (2012)
"Bewilderment" is the first word that came to mind after listening to 'Huh?' by Spiritualized, which is, and always has been a Jason Pierce [J. Spaceman] effort …...
Gunn-Truscinski Duo – Ocean Parkway (2012) review
Following in the footsteps that were featured on The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper and The Rolling Stones' Satanic Majesties Request, Steven Gunn, who’s probably the best guitarist no one...
The UFO Club – The UFO Club (2012) review
No ... it’s not mono garage psych crawling across your musical threshold as Them [with Van Morrison] did back in 1966, riveting you in place with “Mystic Eyes”;...
It’s almost Halloween, so here’s an Interview treat with Christian Bland of The Black Angels
Since Aristotle, man has organized his knowledge vertically in separate and unrelated groups---Science, Religion, Sex, Relaxation, Work, etc. The main emphasis in his language, his system of storing...
High & Low with The Vacant Lots … and Interview
Prelude: No one’s heard from The Vacant Lots for some time now. It’s been rumored here and there that they’ve been living under a bridge outside of Austin,...
Review and interview with Ripley Johnson from Wooden Shjips & Moon Duo
Review of Dos (2009) If you find yourself in San Francisco as I did several years ago, the streets wet from a light rain, hazy neon signs being...
An Interview with the legendary Psych DJ, Steve Liesch
Jenell [Caught with a mouth full of onion rings]: Finally, good to sit down with you. Man those things are great, try one. Steve: Yeah, Lord knows I’m...
“The Erotic Love of Plastic” by Jenell Kesler
I’ve always thought that there was a romance to playing a record, but it’s more, it’s seductive, it’s like foreplay, sending shivers of anticipation down my spin, while...