The Prefab Messiahs – ‘Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive’ (2015)
The Prefab Messiahs made a lot of noise back at the turn of the ’80s (some of it intentional and most of it recently reissued by Burger Records...
Reviews
Various Artists – Dis Cover – Donna Regina As Recorded By (2015) review
Various Artists – Dis Cover – Donna Regina As Recorded By (Karaoke Kalk, 2015) With this, their twelfth album, Donna Regina [Günther and Regina Janssen] continue to evolve...
The White Birch – The Weight Of Spring (2015) review
The White Birch - The Weight Of Spring (Glitterhouse Records, 2015) Nine years ago this month (August), one of Norway’s finest psychedelic bands dissolved, leaving four remarkable albums...
VCSR – Tape #4 (2015) review
VCSR - Tape #4 (Permanent Records, 2015) Where to even begin with the enigmatic VCSR that I doubt many of you all have ever actually heard before? That’s...
Hawkeyes/Shooting Guns – ‘Brothers Of The Nod’ (2015)
I don’t know how an instrumental psych album could get much better than this for me. It combines two of my absolute favorite bands onto alternating sides of...
Umberto – From The Grave (2015) review
Umberto - From The Grave (Permanent Records, 2015) The past two years have seen an explosion in the soundtrack genre, specifically in what is commonly referred to as...
Dave Mihaly’s Shimmering Leaves Ensemble – Euro and Solo (2015) review
Dave Mihaly’s Shimmering Leaves Ensemble – Euro and Solo (Self-Released, 2015) Mihaly is a multi-instrumental percussionist with San Francisco’s prog-psych jazzbos Mushroom and this is his third release...
Psychic Baos – Society’s Lien on Piece of Mind/Can’t Keep Us Down (2015) review
Psychic Baos - Society’s Lien on Piece of Mind/Can’t Keep Us Down EP – 7” (Magnetic South Records, 2015) I instantly fell in love with Psychic Baos when...
Sunlight – ‘Creation of Sunlight’ (1968)
For many years, folks thought the name of this band was Creation Of Sunlight. But thanks to rock and roll sleuths, the truth finally came to light. Sorry,...
Acid Mothers Temple and The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. – ‘High on New Heaven, Live in New Haven’ (2015)
The folks out at Safety Meeting Records have been busy brewing up something extra special in their sonic laboratory lately and the resulting live album is one of...