As a music journalist, it’s often extremely convenient to get caught up on your local scene or your national scene. Sometimes it’s out of unadulterated and unapologetic biases but usually it’s out of both laziness […]
Tag: psych rock
Musically, i’ve almost always been open to anything but there are a few genres that I’ve had long-term love affairs with and I find myself perpetually drawn to them. And if you’ve followed this site […]
Painted Zeros and Elephant Stone at the Mercury Lounge 9/9/14
Painted Zeros and Elephant Stone Mercury Lounge September 9, 2014 As I’ve mentioned a few hundred times of late, it’s been a very busy few months here with The Joy of Violent Movement and I’m […]
Chief Scout is the musical project of the 20 year old, Suwanee, GA-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Trey Rosenkampff. Rosenkampff has been writing and performing music for almost all of his life; in fact, in high school, he […]
Taking their name from Vesta, the largest and brightest asteroid in our solar system and nodding to Spacemen 3, The Asteroid No. 4 originally formed as a quartet in Philadelphia, PA; however, by the time the […]
Fronted by James Hanna’s latest project, Youth Worship and was born out of Hanna’s love of Spacemen 3, Loop, Dinosaur Jr. and Mudhoney – or in other words, Hanna dreamt of playing power chords through stacks of […]
The Chicago,IL-based quartet of YAWN have won over the attention of the blogosphere for a sound that possesses elements of electronica and psych pop that has drawn comparisons to the likes of Animal Collective, Yeasayer […]
Although the Birmingham, AL-based trio of David Brown, Blake Wimberly and David Swatzell’s latest project, Wray is a relatively new project, each of the members of the band have been mainstays in Birmingham’s music scene, […]
The High Learys are a Perth, Australia-based band, which formed in 2011 when when cousins Jamie Turner (vocals, bass) and Matt Williams (guitar) met Mike Mutt (organ) in high school. They later recruited Adrian Macmillan to flesh out […]
The Los Angeles, CA-based producer and musician Chris Pope writes, performs and records under the moniker SOLAI – and as SOLAI, Pope has crafted a sound that that seems inspired by perpetual sunshine and palm […]
Gum Takes Tooth are a London,UK-based duo comprise of Jussi Brightmore (synthesizer, programming, electronic instruments and vocals) and Thomas Fuselgang. And whereas their debut effort, Silent Cenotaph, learned heavily towards metal, their forthcoming sophomore effort, Mirrors Fold has […]
The founding members of Whitewash, Jon Ben-Menachem (bass) and Sam Thornton (guitar) met while studying at NYU and immediately the duo began playing along to the Ween catalog before deciding that they’d rather be making […]
Rishi Dihr is a renowned sitar player who has played with the likes of the Black Angels on their drone and doom-filled opus Directions To See A Ghost. And almost unsurprisingly, Dihr’s band Elephant Stone quickly won over fans […]
The Toronto, ON-based trio of Matt King (vocals, drums), Moshe Rozenberg (synths, drums) and Mike Claxton (bass, synths) formed Absolutely Free from the aftermath of cult art-punk bandDD/MM/YYYY’s break up. And with their new project, the trio of King, […]
Although they have a name that will likely have search engines to have fits, the London UK-based band, The History of Apple Pie formed three years ago and is centered around the songwriting duo of […]