‘Try A Little Sunshine’ (2018)
The popular interpretation of 1969’s musical landscape evokes a number of epochal keystones of recent collective memory. Woodstock, the Stones in Hyde Park and the Beatles performing on...
Reviews
Alice In Chains – “Rainier Fog” (2018) review
Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog (BMG Rights Management LLC) Ok, here we go. Alice In Chains. In 2018. Their first album in half a decade. It’s a...
Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann - The Five Faces Of Manfred Mann, Mann Made, Mann Made Hits, Soul Of Mann (Umbrella Music LP/CD) These four “artist approved” albums constitute what is the earliest...
Echo and The Bunnymen – “The Stars, the Oceans & the Moon” (2018) review
Echo and The Bunnymen - The Stars, the Oceans & the Moon (BMG, 2018) We probably should have seen The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon coming, an album...
‘All You Need Is Fuzz’ (2018)
Garage bands, especially of the psychedelic variety, were a phenomenon that flourished in the 1960’s and saw a resurgence in the 1980’s. The lifespan of most was rather...
From The Vault: Jefferson Airplane – “After Bathing At Baxter’s” (1967)
There’s nowhere to begin with After Bathing At Baxter’s than with the cover art, where for a sixteen year old in 1967, I was completely captivated by a...
Kingnomad – ‘The Great Nothing’ (2018)
Kingnomad, a band signed to my favorite label, Ripple Music, has a new album out there called The Great Nothing. This release is six songs of killer psychedelic...
Telestrion – “Blazing In The Sky” (2018) review
Telestrion - Blazing In The Sky (2018) https://telestrion1.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-in-the-sky Telestrion, a stoner psych band based in Atlanta, has an album out, and it is called Blazing In The Sky....
ivoryHAUS – “Clouds” (2018) review
ivoryHAUS - Clouds (Self-released, 2018) https://soundcloud.com/ivoryhaus/clouds In preparation for his debut album, set to release on September 14th, the Philadelphia producer ivoryHAUS has dropped “Clouds.” An ethereal downtempo...
Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz – “Of All These Things” (2018) review
Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz - Of All These Things (2018) https://andersobitz.bandcamp.com/album/of-all-these-things The Californian singer/songwriters Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz have come together to bring us Of All...