Psychedelic rock
Track: New Melbourne supergroup, The Silversound (Shane O’Mara, Andrew Tanner, Stu Thomas & Leroy Cope) invite us to sway along to trippy first song, Shaker, taken from imminent “debut” album.
It is time to slip on your go-go swamp boots for Shaker, the electrifying lead track from The Silversound’s imminent debut album. Erupting like an overdriven lava lamp at the hyperventilating end of a blossoming psychedelic trip, Shaker is an ecstatic top-down monster truck groove with fast funk propulsion and a soul-tinted female chorus that wraps your head in silk and …
PREMIERE: Rodolphe Coster shares the muscular ‘Dolls Their Maps’, preps new album
Brussels man Rodolphe Coster has been on the go for a while; first as part of Flexa Lyndo, then as a multidisciplinary artist. Music remains his first love, however – as someone who’s supported everyone from Liars to Italia 90 and Thee Oh Sees/OCS/Oh Sees etc. He’s in it for the long haul. Speaking of …
Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Magna Zero
For many of us who grew up playing in garage bands, we daydream about what life could’ve been like if we continued jamming and made it to the big-time. That very well could’ve been the case for progressive rock outfit Magna Zero, but after a ten year hiatus from growing up playing music together, they …
Live Gallery + Set list: Dinosaur Jr. / Garcia Peoples – Vicar Street, Dublin 10,10,2022
Dinosaur Jr. opened their tour at Dublin’s Vicar Street and man did the make some noise, they blow up a dust storm as can be seen in some of the photos where the dust particles are flying, the guys blow peoples eardrums for an hour and a half with a 19 song set list.Support came …
Track: Acid Dad drop new single, Get Me High with accompanying ‘otherworldly’ clip.
US psych rockers, Acid Dad (Vaughn Hunt on guitars/vocals, Sean Fahey also on guitars/vocals and Trevor Mustoe on drums) have just released a stunning new song and accompanying clip. The song, Get Me High is about “trying to grasp a breath after unexpectedly losing everything” – something the band experienced when their studio that they …
Album Review: US psych-rockers, King Buffalo to release Regenerator, the 3rd of a trio of albums written in Covid-19 lockdown.
New York-based trio King Buffalo will release their fifth full-length album and the 3rd of their ‘pandemic trilogy’, Regenerator on the 2nd September, 2022. Following on from the two releases in 2021, Acheron and The Burden of Restlessness, the intervening period has seen the band release three pre-release singles, and will have, by the time …
Album Review: Wax Machine – Hermit’s Grove: An exotic blend of psych-toned Tropicalia and elemental jazz rock
When you hear the phrase ‘recorded in a small closet above a mortuary’ you’re thinking ‘I know where this is going’. Dark, experimental, doom shrouded and drone laden probably fits the immediate profile. Well Wax Machine’s ‘Hermit’s Grove’ defies those superficial impressions. It may well have been ‘recorded in a small closet above a mortuary’ …
Live Review & Gallery: Dark Mofo Festival – Spiritualized – Mac 02, Hobart, 17.06.2022
Jason Pierce (aka J Spaceman), the lead creative force behind Spiritualized, brought his 9 person juggernaut to Australia to play 2 exclusive headlining events, one of those being at Dark Mofo 2022. Spiritualized played an extraordinary set, covering 30 years worth of material, from their beginnings on 1992’s Lazer Guided Missiles through to this year’s …
News: Psych Rock Legends The Black Angels Announce New LP ‘Wilderness of Mirrors’ and new single ‘El Jardin’
Legendary Austin, Texas psych-rockers, The Black Angels have announced their new album Wilderness of Mirrors, which is due out on the 16th of September on Partisan Records/Liberator Music. Following on from their acclaimed 2017 album, Death Song, Wilderness of Mirrors is their first new full-length studio release in 5 years, and adds full-length album #7 to their already impressive discography. Fans …
News: Pond reveal new single and video ‘Hang a Cross on me’: ‘9’ Deluxe album edition out 20 May and tour dates confirmed for June
Western Australian psych-rockers Pond’s new, dancefloor-ready single Hang A Cross on Me will appear alongside three new tracks on the deluxe edition of their ARIA #6 album 9, available on Friday 20 May through Spinning Top Records. The Fremantle five-piece will then embark on their UK/Europe tour, taking in two performances at Primavera Sound. The …