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See: Pinkshinyultrablash release video for kiddy pool dream, plus tour date news
Russian shoegaze outfit, Pinkshinyultrablast, keen to follow up the success of their debut album, “Everything Else Matters” ,release yet more bliss laden dream-pop on the world with latest single “Kiddy Pool Dreams”. For the video, the band have taken a fairly original approach and recorded peoples reactions, good and bad, to hearing the single through headphones… …
News: We preview Reverence Valada Festival 2015
Tomorrow starts one of the most novel and exciting music events happening in Portugal at the moment, Reverence Valada Festival. After last year’s excellent first edition of the festival, expectations have been overcome with this year’s more ecclectic but equally fresh line up of artists who will be performing on the 27th, the 28th and …
News: Cardinal Fuzz Sonic Attack at Liverpool PsychFest 2015
Small independent record labels are hugely important to the development of so much of what is good about the music scene these days. They enable bands to get their product out to people who they would not be able to reach on their own. Conversely they help those of us who want to hear great …
NEWS: EVIL BLIZZARD – new album and tour dates
Are You Evil? Once you’ve experienced Evil Blizzard you’ll find that no matter how hard you try, they will have somehow crept under your skin, and encamped themselves within the dark recesses of your mind. Looking like characters from a deranged serial killers wet dream, the masked band use their heavy, intoxicating, dark-psych sound to …
News: PINKSHINYULTRABLAST announce UK Dates
Following on from the success of their debut album, “Everything Else Matters“, Russian shoegazers Pinkshinyultrablast are gearing up to release some new material from an as yet untitled follow up album and a set of supporting dates. First up will be the track ‘Kiddy Pool dreams’, which will officially be released on 2nd October on Club …
News: Preview – Reverence Festival, Valada
On August 27th, 28th and 29th Reverence festival returns to Valada, Portugal, to offer up another weekender of quality psychedelia. This monster line-up showcases the very best in stoner, grunge, shoegaze and doom, with more acts to be announced in the coming weeks. Heady, hazy sounds offer the perfect summer soundtrack to the beautifully picturesque setting of Valada …
Psych Insight: Track: Milarepa by Hills, plus debut album reissue news
Hills are one of my favourite bands of recent times, a Swedish collective who only seem to emerge from time to time, but when they do they always seem to leave a big impression on me. Their last album, ‘Master Sleeps’ (their second), was originally released by in 2011 and re-pressed on vinyl by Rocket Recordings …
Psych Insight: News – Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia 2015 line up
It is around about this time of year that my thoughts begin to turn to the Liverpool PsychFest, being held in the hugely atmospheric Baltic Triangle a stone’s throw away from the old Liverpool Docklands on 25th and 26th September. Now in its fourth year, the event is very much part of the ‘psych’ scene and, …
News: Hey Sholay announce Sheffield Show to replace cancelled Tramlines appearance
Hey Sholay are an extraordinary band. I stumbled across them almost 2 years ago and I’ve been bewitched by their majestic sounds and idyllic wonders ever since. The band don’t tour often so their gigs are the highlight of any calendar. They’ve done secret gigs in pub gardens and grand shows in Sheffield Cathedral – …