Browsing: psychedelia

L.A. Witch, longtime purveyors of Southern California’s dark and sultry rock underbelly, are back with ‘DOGGOD,’ their most ambitious and cinematic album yet, out April 4,…

Psychedelic heavy rock band IOTA is set to release their eagerly anticipated album, Pentasomnia, on March 22nd through Small Stone Recordings. Nearly sixteen years have passed…

Bananagun “Do Yeah” Do Yeah 7″ You want something completely different?  Check out the craziness that is Bananagun.  This band is so different than anyone out…

Flamingods “Olympia” Levitation What a fun, freaky, full-blown crazy band.  This is straight psychedelia, folks, mining the great 60’s sound and tweaking it with right ‘now’…

The Wrecks “Freaking Out” Coming from LA, The Wrecks are an amazingly diverse band.  “Freaking Out” has this hip hop/punk vitality with a huge dash of…

MIIST “Philosophy Of Pessimism” All The Useless Spinning This is such great midnight music, wrapped up so tight yet still free and almost formless.  Coming from…

Swervedriver “Future Ruins” Future Ruins Yeah, Swervedriver has a new album out.  I haven’t been depressed for too long (and I love being depressed), but Swervedriver…

Shadowgraphs “Sun Is Rising” Another Time Another tremendous band from Portland, OR.  Take one part The Zombies, one part The 13th Floor Elevator, shove them into…

Psych-Rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra return to form with the soft, psych-rock and hypnotic “Hunnybee,” named after the middle name of frontman Ruban Nielson’s daughter. The visuals…

Lonely Benson “Strawberry Afternoon” Lonely Benson What a great performer.  Lonely Benson (aka Daniel Young) has combined the sunny sound of Os Mutantes with the easy-going…

Millionyoung “Never Be The Same” Rare Form Remember what made the dance floors so much fun in the 70’s?  Well, Millionyoung takes us back there.  Throw…

Monks Of Doom “Duat Duat” The Bronte Pin I have always been a huge fan of Monks of Doom, and I am so glad we get…

Berry “Civil Disobedience” Everything Compromised Any song that mentions Henry David Thoreau is a song that will grab my attention.  I truly love Berry.  Their songs…

Telyscopes “We Have A Lot To Be Disappointed About” The Hobbyist Jack Hubbell (Telyscopes) has done it again.  This man has so much music inside him,…

Telyscopes “Tabby’s Star” High Fidelity Drag This is my new favorite band.  Telyscopes is so much fun, so psychedelic, so out-there, so musically whole, it’s hard…

Quicksilver Daydream “Ferryman” A Thousand Shadows, A Single Flame From the first plaintive reverb guitar chord, you know you’ve entered a sad, dark, psychedelic world.  Quicksilver Daydream is an…

Paperhaus “Go Cozy” Are These Questions That We Need To Ask? Just the title of the new album by Paperhaus will get you thinking.  Really, is…

Sun Kin “Bijak” “Kabir was a 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint. The Bijak is the best known compilation of Kabir’s poetry, and holy scripture for…

Imaad Wasif “Carry The Scar” Dzi If you haven’t jumped on Imaad Wasif’s bandwagon, do so before you are left in the dust.  Wasif is one…

Imaad Wasif “Far East” Dzi I cannot begin to tell you how much I love Imaad Wasif.  Everything about him is so special.  Coming from India,…