Tender Ender’s ‘Black Swan’: Doomsday Pop for an Unhinged World
Tender Ender marks the solo debut of Thomas Schmidiger, a return to his piano-driven roots and love for strong melodies, filtered through three decades of life’s reality. The...
Klemen Breznikar
‘Journey to the Ancient’: Inside Yusuf Mumin’s Long-Lost Recordings and Rare Interview
Yusuf Mumin, alto saxophonist and co-founder of the Black Unity Trio, remains one of the most elusive figures within the Great Black Music continuum. With 'Journey to the...
Abronia Premiere ‘Weapons Against Progress’ and Dive Deep in a New Interview Ahead of ‘Shapes Unravel’
Abronia, the Portland based psych six-piece, continue to refine and expand their sound, and their forthcoming album 'Shapes Unravel' shows the band reaching a new creative peak. Today,...
Andorra’s ‘III’: An Interview on Improvisation, Instinct and Identity
Andorra’s third album is like a system in motion, a slow forming pattern, texture, ... Recorded at Lundgaard Studios, the band absorbed the atmosphere of the space and...
Paul Sears An Interview on His Book, The Muffins & Beyond
Paul Sears avoids self-aggrandizement in his memoir Angels and Demons at Play. The book reads like a long improvisation shaped by sound, chance, and lived experience. Even its...
Clemmons Interview on Damn The Machine: Inside the Past, the Present, and the War Within
David Judson Clemmons invites listeners to step into a carefully curated portrait of his artistic life with a set of vinyl releases that span decades of creation. In...
The Final Solution: A Lost Voice of the ’60s San Francisco Sound Emerges
The legendary, yet little-recorded, San Francisco band The Final Solution has finally received a long-overdue official anthology of their extant recordings with the release of 'Just Like Gold:...
Nirvana: The Visionary Duo Who Redefined British Psychedelia, Captured in a New Box Set
Before the mythology of 1960s London hardened into its familiar legends, two young musicians were quietly reshaping the city’s musical imagination. Patrick Campbell-Lyons, from Ireland, and Alex Spyropoulos,...
Chapter 24 and the Greek Underground: Revisiting Their Origins Through ‘Tin Invaders’
Few bands from the Greek underground can claim the continuity, depth, and creative refusal to sit still that define Chapter 24. Formed in Ioannina in 1982, the group,...
A History of The Outlaw Blues Band with Victor Alemán: Psych Blues at Its Best
Los Angeles in the 1960s was a city itching for something new. Bands came and went, chasing their shot. One of them was the Outlaw Blues Band. Central...