Cheval Sombre – ‘Time Waits for No One’ (2021)
I simply loved Cheval Sombre’s first album, it was mystic and emotional, giving me something to sink my teeth into, yet over the years, he’s developed this airy...
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Alternative Grammys by Steve Matteo
With the Grammys and many year-end polls once again largely ignoring music veterans, many quirkier releases, tribute albums and live albums, here are a handful of releases from...
Mungo Jerry – ‘A & B Sides and E.P. Tracks 1970–75’ (2019)
When is a one-hit wonder not a one-hit wonder? When successive singles rack up 29 weeks in the top 10 and 72 in the top 40, except in...
Kramp – ‘Nervous Rattles’ (2020)
'Nervous Rattles' is the vinyl debut of Kramp. It's only a one-sided album, but this format feels like it perfectly matches the music. Like at noise concerts: a...
Mt. Mountain – ‘Centre’ (2021)
A sense of journey drives Mt. Mountain’s fourth album ‘Centre’. Their psych-rock flavour is firmly intact and lends itself greatly to their cosmic quest, but their usual rug-pulling...
Rose City Band – ‘Earth Trip’ (2021)
Rose City Band makes our strange world livable … Rose City Band are out with a new pure American album that rides nicely on the heels of 'Summerlong',...
Paperback Writer
Everybody had a hard year in 2020, but over the past 12-plus months, fans of the Beatles were treated to many great books on the group. Along with...
From The Vault: Various Artists ‘Psych-Out’ (1968)
Now considered a cult classic, 'Psych-Out' was one of the many cheesy flicks of the late sixties exploiting the counterculture lifestyle. Starring Susan Strasberg, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern,...
Wildwood Morning – ‘Wildwood Morning’ (2020)
I love music from foreign lands; Germany, Norway, Australia, Russia, Greece, and all points between, beneath, and beyond them. One of my preferred countries is Germany, which is...
Crystal Syphon – ‘Family Evil’/’Elephant Ball’ (Gear Fab Records 2021)
Unless you were going to gigs around the San Francisco Bay Area back in the late sixties, you would probably have no clue who Crystal Syphon was. During...