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…
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Review of The Pink Elephants “Liquid Illusions” by Grace Dunn
Peter’s vocals on Frankie Teardrop (Suicide cover) is a stand out. More weight is added to the sound with synth and drum beat that feel like some dark skipping along the desolate reaches of sinister afterthoughts. There are more elements added that take away from how songs on the Suicide album have a stripped simplicity of echoing whispers. Suicide has…
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Low Flying Hawks-Genkaku
On Low Flying Hawks’ first endeavor Kōfaku it’s more than apparent AAL and EHA first embarked in the journey deep into your mind to tear it apart. But Genkaku it seems they’re dead set on dragging you through a portal and into a land devoid of all thought and reason. There they can feed your ears this gnarled distortion and…
