Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Selected Studies Vol. 1 (2013) review

Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Selected Studies Vol. 1 (Bureau B, 2013) Unless you’re Brian Eno, electronic / ambient music is al...

The Soft Moon - Zeros (2012) review

The Soft Moon’s release of Zero’s is a tour de force excursion into the dream-state of music, where they’ve managed to take the footprints s...

My Bloody Valentine - m b v (2013) review

It’s been 22 years, that’s more than a generation since My Bloody Valentine dropped their last release [Loveless] on us, and I tell you true...

The Growlers - Hung at Heart (2013) review

Once upon a time there was a party-band called The Grateful Dead, and while most Growlers' fans don’t have the foggiest idea who The Dea...

Chuck Prophet - Temple Beautiful (2012) review

For my way of thinking, there are only three records that are about cities, the life in those cities, the culture, the times, the excesses, ...

Canyonlands - The Tree Stood Up to the Lightning (2012) review

The Tree Stood Up To The Lightning is a remarkable neo-psychedelic EP filled with sonic droning, shifting analog distortion, tribal drumming...

The Sand Pebbles - A Thousand Wild Flowers (2009) review

Anything I could tell you about The Sand Pebbles release “A Thousand Wild Flowers” would be an understatement ... so if you’re a fan of psyc...

Psych for Sore Eyes (2012) review

The blurry album jacket is the front cover of the best-looking record you will see this year. It’s for the Psych For Sore Eyes EP, and it...

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill (2012) review

Neil Young began this psychedelic saga while rambling through his past in search of material for his book Waging Heavy Peace, a book that’s ...

Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (2012) review

"Bewilderment" is the first word that came to mind after listening to Huh? by Spiritualized, which is, and always has been a Jason...

Gunn-Truscinski Duo - Ocean Parkway (2012) review

Following in the footsteps that were featured on The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper and The Rolling Stones' Satanic Majesties Request, Steven ...

The UFO Club - The UFO Club (2012) review

No ... it’s not mono garage psych crawling across your musical threshold as Them [with Van Morrison] did back in 1966, riveting you in place...

It’s almost Halloween, so here’s an Interview treat with Christian Bland of The Black Angels

Interview: Thanks for taking the time to sit down with me.  If you don’t mind, I’d like to start off with your visual arts.  The Black Angel...

High & Low with The Vacant Lots ... and Interview

Prelude:  No one’s heard from The Vacant Lots for some time now.  It’s been rumored here and there that they’ve been living under a bridge o...

An Interview with the legendary Psych DJ, Steve Liesch

Jenell [Caught with a mouth full of onion rings]: Finally, good to sit down with you.  Man those things are great, try one. Steve: Yeah, Lor...