Breakthrough – ‘Underground Sounds of 1971’ (2022)
The year 1971 is celebrated in a lush anniversary four CD box set from Esoteric Records via Cherry Red. That time saw vinyl albums emerging as serious market...
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Super 8 – ‘Out Of My Head’ (2022)
Operating under the guise of Super 8, Paul "Trip" Ryan is a U.K. based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has produced a hefty collection of cool recordings ranging...
The Premonitions – ‘Some Strange Lust’/’Once In A Blue Moon’ (2022)
Are you constantly seeking a psychedelic high? Of course you are! In that case, the new Premonitions single is the fix you need to quench your thirst and...
The Merry Pranksters and the Thunder Machine by Zack Kopp
The recently published autobiographical burlesque 'CRONIES' is not Ken Babbs’s first publication, having published one called 'Who Shot the Water Buffalo?' (Overlook, 2011) detailing his experiences as a...
Steppenwolf – ‘Magic Carpet Ride-The Dunhill/ABC Years 1967-1971’ (2021)
In the four year period between 1967 and 1971 California based hard rock band Steppenwolf released a series of best selling albums and singles, unique for their social...
Vanishing Twin – ‘Ookii Gekkou’ (2021)
'Ookii Gekkou' is like nothing I’ve ever heard before, though the band claims to draw their influences from across time, creating a body of work that’s wobbly, fuzzy,...
Broadcast – ‘BBC Maida Vale Sessions’ | ‘Mother Is The Milky Way’ | ‘Microtronics – Volumes 1 & 2’ (2022)
Trish Keenan’s untimely death in 2011 brought on the end of the career of one of the most interesting bands of the previous decade and a half. For...
Steve Gunn – ‘Nakama’ (2022)
A deliciously laidback wasted sunbaked adventure that simply smolders, rising up like heatwaves from the desert macadam to morph with the drifting clouds that seem to hover just...
Blossom Toes – ‘We Are Ever So Clean’ (2022)
UK psychedelic rockers Blossom Toes released two albums and a handful of singles between 1967 and 1969 on manager Giorgio Gomelsky’s Marmalade Records. Their 1967 debut LP ‘We...
Various Artists – ‘Psychedelic States: Kentucky In The 60s Vol. 1 & 2’ (2022)
For nearly a quarter of a century, the Gear Fab label has been siring collections of super obscure forty-fives from the sixties. Each package celebrates a specific state,...