Archive for June, 2009
Album of the day: Acid King – Busse Woods
Posted on Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Acid King - Busse Woods
(From our archives): Acid King’s Busse Woods makes a definitive statement of heaviness that more than makes up for their small number of releases. Interesting then, how this enormously dark and heavy CD is characterized by its laid back feel. There is no angst and bombast here, just super large fuzz riffs unfurled with taste and atmosphere.
The singer, guitarist and songwriter of this San Francisco power trio is Lori S and while it seems like the phrase “ex-wife-of-Melvins-drummer-Dale” is part of her name, her ability to make music needs no qualifications. Just put on Busse (pronounced buss-ee) Woods and find out what she can do.
Tags: acid king, album of the day, doom, heavy psych, lori s, man's ruin records
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Album of the day: Mammatus – S/T
Posted on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
(From our archives): Mammatus hits you like a truck. Albeit a truck painted in psychedelic swirly colours, piloted by a strung out lunatic who’s using the accelerator like a wah pedal. Formed as far back as 2005, Mammatus are leading the vanguard of the new wave of psychedelic heavy rock ...read more
Album of the album: Cathedral – The Garden of Unearthly Delights
Posted on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
The recent Cathedral albums while replete with voluminous riffs lacked the quirky, anachronistic otherworldliness which makes them so endearing, especially Lee Dorian’s livid Moorcock / Colin Wilson prose extolling the pleasures of myopic zombies, malevolent magi, and all other manner of devilish, altered states chicanery coupled with Garry Jennings’s cavernous ...read more
Rhino Releases L.A. Nuggets Box Set
Posted on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Rhino’s stellar series of Nuggets sets exists to rescue all the hundreds and hundreds of unappreciated bits of punked-up garage-rock weirdness that the 60s left behind. And you’d never believe how much of this stuff there is. On September 22, Rhino will release the latest entry in this series, Where the ...read more
Pitchfork.com rates Dinosaur Jr’s Farm: 8.5
Posted on Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Beyond, the first album to feature the original Dinosaur Jr. lineup since their 1980s heyday, was so surprisingly good it was tempting to call it a fluke. Tempting, but wrong– two years after its release, it still sounds great, on par with the early, hallowed triumvirate of Dinosaur, You’re Living ...read more
Moss set to Release four-song, 40-minute album
Posted on Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Occult horror doom metal band MOSS has completed work on its new album, Tombs of the Blind Drugged, for a July 7 release via Rise Above Records.
Hailed as “the bleakest, darkest doom metal ever recorded,” MOSS cooks up eerie anti-music that transmits the occult like none other. The band’s monstrous ...read more
Voivod: Paris footage available
Posted on Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Fan-filmed video footage of Voivod’s June 18, 2009 performance at Nouveau Casino in Paris, France can be viewed below.
Three new songs from Voivod - ‘Deathproof’, ‘Earthache’ and ‘Global Warning’ — are available for streaming on the band’s MySpace page. All three tracks will appear on Voivod’s final album (Infini) featuring ...read more
Album of the day: Nebula – Atomic Ritual
Posted on Monday, June 22nd, 2009
(From our archives): On their third full length release, Nebula have teamed up with legendary producer Chris Goss to take their sound to a new level. Almost as soon as the first track kicks off, Goss’ presence can be felt as guitar fills come whooshing out of the speakers and ...read more
Album of the day: The Pink Fairies – Finland Freakout 1971
Posted on Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Wow… What a major gem of a find. This group of drugged out rockers played a spaced out high energy set of raw, raw, freak rock at Findland’s Ruisrock in ‘71. It all begins with a special distorted and twisted version of ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ by the Beatles.
Next up is ...read more
HANK III Jammin Stoner Doom
Posted on Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Lovingly pinched from HankIII’s offical YouTube channel: HANK III Jammin Stoner Doom: “on my My bad ass Electric amp / And Matt Pike’s Ole green Cab’s used on the Sleep Jerusalem record… And no tellin how many High on Fire gig’s they’ve done also! Thanks Joel & Pike ...read more
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