With a heady mix of animal aggression and technical precision, Ape Machine's music carries an organic depth and warmth rarely heard since the time of rock's glorious early years...
Howdy. This new double album by The Bevis Frond is a good one. Genre: rock. Enjoy! The Bevis Frond – White Numbers Filed under: 2013, Rock
For a great number of heavy metal fans, the career trajectory of Linkoping, Sweden's Ghost (or Ghost B.C. if you live in North America), has been one of the most exciting things...
Despite the emotional lyrics and unique sound that High Tide brings, Still Rising is more like “slightly sinking”. At times High Tide gives the listener some really strong riffs...
Fain turbo-boosts vintage British folk-rock templates, with muscular, mesmerising results that will have fans of Midlake, Arbouretum and Dungen howling with pleasure.
Upon realising that Wolf People's riff-heavy folk rock has certainly not beam beamed in from the murkiest corners of the 70s, one must surely ask themselves - is this mere...
Hey. The sweet new album by Wolf People was just added to Spotify (for me). Genre: psychedelic rock. Enjoy! (US release date is tomorrow.) Wolf People – Fain Filed under: 2013...
Hello. It’s time for one of my rare late night blog posts. The latest album by White Fence was added to Spotify yesterday. Genre: psychedelic pop. Read this review and enjoy...
In The Marrow is the long-awaited third album from Athens, GA psychedelic rock band, Dead Confederate. The album was recorded in Athens by legendary producer / engineer David...
Morning. It’s going to be a mighty hot day where I live. Maybe the latest album by Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats can cool me down? Genre: psychedelic rock/doom metal. Enjoy! Uncle...
As the recordings began to circulate so too did the rumours. Some said these two mysterious volumes, Vol.1 and Blood Lust were dug up from the ruins of an old abandoned barn...
"Heavy Mental" psych rockers Blaak Heat Shujaa will release their sophomore LP The Edge of an Era . The follow up to the Los Angeles trio's critically acclaimed Tee Pee debut EP...
Good evening. The new album by psychedelic rock band The Black Angels was added to Spotify earlier this week. Read some mostly positive reviews and enjoy! (US version here.) The...
Hey. Let’s start the day with some ambient/shoegaze. From a recent Spotify update: the new album by Implodes. Enjoy! (One review here.) Implodes – Recurring Dream Filed under...
An album that provides a variation on a theme. Gerner's synth experience shines through, but it doesn't pack enough punches to provoke or demand a rebuttal.
Morning. Are you in the mood for some groovy psychedelic rock? If yes, please check out the latest EP by Dean Allen Foyd and enjoy! (Version for non-Scandinavian listeners here...
The Brooklynites take a gentle turn from their punk roots to draw on a host of new influences, but still rock like muthas
Rewind to 2011: New York amp molesters the Men make Leave Home, a gloriously oppressive record documenting unhealthy manifestations of seething attitude and amplifier vivisection...
The phrase "Whatever you are, be a good one," most oftenly attributed to Abraham Lincoln appears to be a piece of advice that the Men have taken to heart. When they were a...
When the time came to record their new album, The Men headed a couple of hours north of New York City to a cabin in the Catskill Mountains. The upshot of a 300 million year...
Brooklyn’s The Men keep 2013’s garage rock torch blazing on their sophomore LP, New Moon. In recent days, the genre has witnessed a revival of sorts, with bands such as Parquet...
It's the first law of indie-rock: Every grungy, guitar-powered act-- from Dinosaur Jr. to Titus Andronicus-- eventually goes a little Crazy Horse, gradually easing their squalling...
Evening. From a very recent Spotify update: the new album by The Men. Genre: noise pop/rock. Enjoy! (Note: Tomorrow I’m going back home again, which means no blog updates during...
At times quite captivating and as rowdy, New Moon is ultimately an album half-full of both indelible sonic fury and equally forgettable missteps.
"I found out I never knew where it was going/ And it might take a while," Psychic Ills sing on One Track Mind. For the psych-dabblers (who celebrate their tenth birthday this year...
Sludgy, sleazy “rock & roll” music: from this comes the stuff Psychic Ills have aggressively channeled into One Track Mind, the group’s fourth album in the decade since they got...
Though Wimps' Repeat is slathered in bright, bubbly punk hooks, the world they present in their lyrics is dismal. People are boring. Work sucks. The only break from this banal...
Debut album from the duo of Sean Lennon and Greg Saunier of Deerhoof. Instrumental psych rock and avant grade in a variety of moods and styles. "Truly, the music here is all over...
When I was in college I went a couple times to a house where some slightly-older friends lived. Usually everyone in the house was in some sort of drug-induced haze, and, depending...
Mystical Weapons is a collaboration between Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier and Sean Lennon. Lennon has had a solo career since the mid-90s and is, of course, the son of John Lennon...
The uber-talented band's enticing blend of genres has been called "a dissonant symphony unveiling visions of great natural expanses" and is unlike anything you've likely heard...
The People's Temple introduced themselves to a wider audience on 2010's Sons of Stone as disciples of 1960s earworm psych with a bent on mysticism. On More for the Masses, they're...
This year's Mercury Prize list featured an unprecedented glut of acts who all eschew forward thinking in favour of the defiantly retrograde. Looking back over their shoulder...
Indulgence is an oft and unfairly maligned tendency in rock. Should a song dare to break the four minute barrier, or contain too many notes (or not enough), or in any way break...
Howdy. It’s a new week and while the number of notable new releases are decreasing it’s not yet time for the 2012 Mega Project. Anyway, the explosive new album by Graveyard was...
Before there was metal, there was the blues. Metal's original trinity-- Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple-- all started in Britain's blues scene, and those roots are...
Biography can be overstated when evaluating an artist's work, but Ahmed Gallab's story is key to understanding his music. Born in Khartoum, Sudan, to two college professors, he...
Hi. I really like the overall vibe of this recently* added album. Genre: electronic/funk/soul. Enjoy Sinkane! (*It seems to have been released at different dates all over the...
An album that pulls together funk, African pop, Krautrock and dance, matching its maker's personal backstory, and marking itself out as a quintessential NYC melting pot release.
Heavy metal and the church have always been uneasy bedfellows. While "Christian metal" is somehow still a thing, its converse is far more prevalent. Satan worship is nearly a...
A real sonic feast, that balances an understated sense of melody with an ever-present groove, writes Matthew Haddrill.
Tame Impala turn The Beatles' trippiest moment into a luscious floaty ode to solitary life
The question of creating a snapshot of the world as we know it is one that often frustrates artists. After all, if ol’ Willy Shakes is to be believed, the whole point of art is...
Hi. It’s a new week and the sun is shining for a change. Here is the brand new Tame Impala album. Genre: dream pop/psychedelic rock. Enjoy! (Note: It should as usual be added for...
If their debut was any indication, Tame Impala's second full-length, Lonerism, will once again be compared to albums from the late 1960s and early 70s. But if their intent was to...
Moon Duo don't exactly make music one would categorize as outdoorsy. For Sanae Yamada and Wooden Shjips axe-grinder Erik "Ripley" Johnson, their compellingly crafted brand of...
Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada's second album is inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and circles, and it's a powerful amalgam of pysch, drone and noise-pop.
Hey. The delicate new album by The Fresh & Onlys is a very recent addition to the Spotify library. Genre: pop. Enjoy! (There is also a new playlist, Spotinews 064, with samples...
The Fresh & Onlys are cut from the same stylistic cloth as contemporaneous acts such as Woods, Real Estate, and White Fence. They've been toiling about the noise pop circuit...
Romance in contemporary popular music, as it is in life, is hard to come by. Songs of love and lust are commonplace, but romance? It seems to be a luxury we can no longer afford...
Dig. Sow. Love. Grow. is a heady synthesis of not only their own previous efforts, but also the many unique styles of music cultivated on American soil over the last five decades...
Morning. The latest album by Buffalo Killers was added to Spotify some weeks back. Genre: rock. Enjoy! Buffalo Killers – Dig. Sow. Love. Grow. Filed under: 2012, Rock
The Attack is a straight-up smash mouth hardcore punk band from Orlando, Fla. and Too Punk For the Hardcore Show, Too Hardcore For the Punk Show is their first release on Rah Rah...