Posts Tagged ‘psychedelica’

Album of the day: Earthless – Live at Roadburn

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010

Earthless - Live at Roadburn

Lovingly pinched from StonerRock.com: The trick of free-flowing instrumental jams is keeping it interesting for long stretches of time. If there’s a group currently out there that knows this better than Earthless, I’d like to know who it is. From my vantage point, Earthless is the cream of the psychedelic rock crop, and while that opinion was solidified well before I heard Live at Roadburn, the San Diego-based band’s latest reinforced that feeling tenfold.

This two CD/LP release, recorded live and without any overdubs at this year’s (2009 -ed) prestigious Roadburn Festival (You don’t know about this? What are you, dense?), may take awhile to get going, but once it does, the band’s impossible to stop.

Continue reading:  StonerRock.com – Earthless – Live at Roadburn.
Please click HERE for the audio stream of Earthless – Live at Roadburn.

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Earthless confirmed to play Roadburn Festival on Thursday, April 15th

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010

We are thrilled to announce the return of Earthless to the Roadburn stage on Thursday, 15 April 2010.

Earthless were among the undisputed highlights of the 2008 edition of the festival. The story behind the recording of Earthless  — Live at Roadburn has been documented widely by various ...read more

Album of the day: Mondo Drag – New Rituals

Posted on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: With minds expanded and set to the key of retro, Davenport, Iowa — which for those in the know is called “the San Francisco of Iowa” (that’s not true) — the high toned Mondo Drag emerge bearing psychedelic sweets that seem to melt as soon ...read more

Terrorizer band of the day: Black Math Horseman

Posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Find out why our good friends over at Terrorizer picked Black Math Horseman as band of the day: You may have read about “alchemic psych-rock” LA post-metal troupe, Black Math Horseman, back in Terrorizer last year, when we frotted over them mercilessly. Well they’re back in our hearts, having announced ...read more

Album of the day: Loop – A Gilded Eternity

Posted on Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Praise for Loop’s A Gilded Eternity reissue from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records: Contemporaries of legendary drug rockers Spacemen 3, Loop took the same sonic influences but rocked a little harder, opting out of the extended soporific drifts the defined the Spacemen, (although they were perfectly capable of blissing out with ...read more

Album of the day: Far East Family Band – Parallel World

Posted on Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Praise from Volcanic Tongue for Far East Family Band’s Parallel World:  CD issue of what’s regarded as the most perfectly realised of the collaborations between the post-Far Out Far East Family Band and visionary Kraut cosmonaut Klaus Schulze.
Recorded in 1976 on the back of Schulze’s classic Black Dance LP, Parallel ...read more

Album of the day: Circle – Tulikoira (Reissue)

Posted on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Praise for Circle’s Tulikoira from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records:  This 2005 Circle album, out of print for a bit, is now newly reissued on CD, this time its jewel case wrapped in a spiffy slipcase, featuring some cool new artwork (and a “no posers” symbol)!
NWOFHM. That’s what it says on ...read more

Wooden Shipjs: Vol 2 – 2nd Singles Comp Out March 30th

Posted on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Strap in for travels beyond the galaxy, to tranced-out cosmic bliss! Sick Thirst presents Vol 2, the second compilation of hard-to-find Wooden Shjips tracks. Vol 2 digs deep to collect the band’s Sub Pop and Mexican Summer singles, two self-released European tour singles, and a track from Yeti magazine, for ...read more

Album of the day: Dexter Jones’ Circus Orchestra – If Light Can’t Save Us, I Know Darkness Will

Posted on Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Despite the fun-loving feel of the music — like retro ‘60s pop rock gone warm fuzz with an ear for well-placed solos and grooves — the lyrics and themes of Stockholm five-piece Dexter Jones’ Circus Orchestra’s third album, If Light Can’t Save Us, I Know ...read more

Album of the day: The Heads – Under The Stress of A Headlong Dive

Posted on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

The Heads’ Under The Stress of A Headlong Dive is now available as a double LP on Invada / Rocket Recordings. What Drew Webster said when Roadburn reviewed the CD version back in 2006:

Listening to The Heads is an immersive experience. Has been ever since they first committed supremely ...read more