San Francisco has long produced great psychedelic music, and The Love Dimension’s newest album – Balance – is no exception. A little blues-rocky, a bit surf-rocky, and a whole lot of psychedelic, Balance is a journey into the San Francisco soundscape of the 60s through a modern lens. The journey through Balance was really enjoyable – all of the tracks are fantastic in their own right. However, I feel it’s better to take time to go into depth on a few select highlights of the album rather than each song on the album. This album had really unexpected opening and closing tracks: Frogs of Meadow Creek and Frogs of Meadow…
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The Crystal Teardrop’s New Rocking Single ‘Running Out Of Time’
The Crystal Teardrop lead by Alexandra Rose is modern psychedelic garage rock from the UK bring back the British invasion.
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The Green Door New Release “Dead Stock” is a Californian Acid Western
The Green Door's new psych-rock album, Dead Stock, marches the listener into the depths of a 8mm film of a Californian acid western and it's a trip you don't want to miss.
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Dream Pop and Shoegaze — Dream Aloud by HEAVEN Review
Back in April, NYC-based shoegaze band, HEAVEN, released an LP on Little Cloud Records called Dream Aloud, which is filled with elements of rock, dream pop, and synthpop. HEAVEN engages a sense of nostalgia in this album, reminding me of some of my favorite shoegaze records from the mid-90s to early 2000s. I really enjoyed the journey that this album took me on, but I’d really love to highlight some of the best tracks off the record. Starting off with the LP’s title track, Dream Aloud, we’re brought along a more gentle ride. Leaning more into dream pop than shoegaze, Dream Aloud is the most nostalgic-sounding track. I love the…
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OCCULT STEREO | A Temporary Utopia
Occult Stereo is a self-produced project from Alex Eliopoulos, previously of the San Francisco band, Impuritan. Recorded over three years in Athens, Greece, but with songs written in San Francisco before the pandemic, this is truly a unique album with high levels of experimentation and creativity. This project is an open collaboration with other artists as well, adding to ’its complex tapestry of “Occult” sounds. The band “embraces aural freedom in many forms, from ambient soundscapes to fuzz-guitar freak outs and drone-like psychedelic oceans.” Abrasive, yet soothing at the same time, the record speaks to the whole spectrum of musical tone, a yin yang of styles that can’t be described…
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LSD & The Search for God. Kraus. Launder. 5.2.2025
“Shoe-gaze” as a genre of music has been around since the 1990s. I like to refer to the genre as “Dream-gaze,” and I’ve also heard it referred to as “Sea-gaze. Both of which are less condescending names, while they more accurately describe the sound and appeal of the genre. The genre made a revival in the early 2000s, making it more well known to a wider international audience. And now it seems it’s making an even bigger comeback as a popular genre with the Generation Z crowd. This was evident at this concert at Great American Music Hall San Francisco, where the line to get in the door was wrapped…
