Comprised of Lavinia Blackwell (vocals, organ piano, electric guitar and glockenspiel), Mike Hastings (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and vocals), Alasdair C. Mitchell (electric guitar, organ, glockenspiel, and vocals), Alex Neilson (drums, percussion, whistle, and vocals) […]
Tag: psych rock
The members of the New York-based quartet Whitewash met while they were all studying at jazz at NYU (my alma mater) – founding members Jon Ben-Menachem (bass) and Sam Thornton (guitar) had met and bean […]
As I’ve often mentioned on this page, I receive quite a bit of email from a variety of publicity firms, labels, band managers. bands and artists from all over the world, and although it can […]
New Audio: Old Baby “Someday”
Although they’re comprised of a number of Louisville, KY-based music scene veterans, who have reportedly played in a number of known bands, the psych rock band Old Baby has preferred to operate in a cloak […]
Comprised of Jeff Pupa (vocals, guitar and bass), James Hencken (drums, synths and keyboards), and long-time bandmate and collaborator Sabeel Azam (guitar) the trio of Vows have developed a reputation for a consistently evolving sound. Pupa […]
Comprised of Joakim Åhlund, Nino Keller, Frans Johansson and Martin Ehrencrona, the Stockholm, Sweden-based shoegaze quartet Les Big Byrd may arguably one of the more accomplished contemporary indie acts in their native Sweden as members of […]
Over the past decade or so, the New York-based trio A Place to Bury Strangers have developed a reputation for a moody, atmospheric wall of sound-influenced sound that possesses elements of psych rock, shoegaze and […]
Singer/songwriter and bassist Jennie Vee grew up as “the goth girl” in a small Ontario town. And as the story goes, she Vee had pen pals, who had changed the course of her life, when they […]
Comprised of Spencer White, Jackson White, Steve Kempnich, and Lewis Stephenson, the Brisbane, Australia-based quartet Morning Harvey have developed a reputation in Brisbane for a breezy, psych pop/shoegaze sound based around shimmering reverb-y guitar lines, […]
Live Concert Photography: Shark Week, Christines, and Crocodiles at Union Pool 4/29/15
Live Concert Photography: Shark Week, Christines and Crocodiles Union Pool April 29, 2015 Last week I was at Williamsburg’s Union Pool to catch the Washington, DC-based Shark Week, the New York-based Christines and the San Diego, […]
Live Footage: RIDE on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Electric
Comprised of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence “Loz” Colbert and Steve Queralt, the Oxford, UK-based quartet RIDE are considered by critics and fans to be among the originators of the shoegaze sound – despite the fact […]
Comprised of Pete Hughes (guitar, vocals), Ryan Northrop (drums) and Aaron Powell (bass, vocals), the Portland-based trio Sons of Huns have developed a reputation across Portland, the Pacific Northwest for a power chord-based, stoner rock, […]
Largely inspired by The Velvet Underground and The Zombies, the up-and-coming Toronto, ON-based quartet GROUNDERS, comprised of Andrew Davis (vocals, guitar), Mike Searle (bass), Daniel Bushelkin (keyboards) and Evan Lewis (guitar) have received attention across […]
Led by John Dwyer, the San Francisco-based quartet Thee Oh Sees have been insanely prolific, as they’ve released over a dozen albums since 2004 with each of those albums have managing to sound decidedly different, […]
Crocodiles’ fourth album, Crimes of Passion, was one of my favorite releases of 2013. Produced by The Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner, the material on the album meshed sleazy, reckless hedonism and furiously, noisy psychedelia with […]