Like many of our staff, I have been a fan of Joel Gion and the Brian Jonestown Massacre (BJM) for many, many years. Seven years ago, I saw Joel play live without the BJM for the first time. He was performing as Joel Gion and The Primary Colours. The band performed in my hometown of San Jose, California at a…
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Magic Shoppe – Live In London – Is A Rocking Shoegaze Experience.
Live In London is a wall of sound psychedelic shoegaze, alternative rock album, steeped in 1980’s goth and 1990’s tonality. A timelessness pervades the album, the warm fuzzy tonality washes out into soundscapes or can build into a maelstrom. Live in London captures all the energy of a live in-house concert.
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SONIC BOOM’S FIRST NEW ALBUM IN OVER 20 YEARS: ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL
All Things Being Equal represents Sonic Boom’s first album release in over 20 years. You heard that right. It’s also the first to be released by Carpark Records, home to several artists Peter Kember (AKA Sonic Boom) has produced himself. The album shares the same name of Kember’s previous project; he remarks “I learn from everyone I work with, and…
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Pow Presents POW STREAM 1
Release Date: July 20, 2020 Press Release: POW LS1 Exactly four-months ago today, Pow Presents started to promote their second live music event for The San Francisco Great Society, but postponed the event one month later due to the pandemic. Like so many other shows in the Bay Area and across the nation, live music at venues and music festivals…
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Pow Magazine exclusive world music video premier: URF’s Single, ‘Solitude’
Pow Magazine exclusive world music video premier: Manchester-based five-piece URF has released their brand new single, ‘Solitude.’ We’ve followed URF for about a year now and dig their ethereal vocals and psychedelic guitars. Tearing a page from A Clockwork Orange, “It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense…
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Vast Asteroid-“Vast Asteroid”(self titled)
Vast Asteroid take the riffs written from stoner gods and inhabit my current mind. Mix it with Brit pop and shoegaze sensibilities and song structure delivered from all the cheeky and mesmerizing musicians that formed my youth. And shoot that into the stars with a nice little splash of space rock. Super groups sometimes get a bad rep. That they’re…
