Fungi Girls – Some Easy Magic (2011) This rock fusion LP boasts a spunky sound across this album. The instrumentals on this album, especially the guitars and the bass, are really fantastic. The surf rock influence is quite prevalent throughout the whole album, with certain licks and riffs feeling like they’re straight out of the 60s. The slacker rock influence is also felt throughout the album, with the fuzzed-out guitars taking center-stage on many of the tracks. Bandcamp, Blogspot, Facebook, and X pages of Fungi Girls Shapes Have Fangs – Dinner in the Dark (2012) This release from the Austin-based rock band, Shapes Have Fangs, is a great example of…
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Newsletter #8
Newletter #8 features 18 new singles from shoegaze and psychrock bands from around the world. Stay current with New Candys, Vibravoid, Primitive Ring a side project from members of Fuzz and Ty Segall, Acid Dad, Firefriend and San Francisco locals Asteroid No.4 and The Spiral Electric and much more.
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Acapulco Lips | Now
Seattle’s Acapulco Lips have always been a band you could count on for sun-baked fuzz, jangly hooks, and that sweet spot where garage grit meets 60s girl group charm. But Now — their latest full-length via Killroom Records — feels like they’ve taken that cocktail, added an extra shot of swagger, and served it with a little more bite. Produced by Killroom co-founders Ben Jenkins and Troy Nelson and mastered by Pacific Northwest punk legend Kurt Bloch, the record oozes analog warmth and a lived-in confidence that only comes from over a decade of doing this thing for real. From the opening swirl of “Welcome to the Other Side,” you’re…
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The Crystal Teardrop ‘…Is Forming’ Vintage Psychedelic Rock
The new album is inspired by the experimentation of the late 1960s with psychedelic effects, strong female vocals, sitar and garage rock songwriting. It is 100% analog recording, production and straight from tape to vinyl pressing.
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Dig this! Dean Wareham: Interview and Velvet Love Letter
It’s hard for me to recall the first time I heard Dean Wareham. This musical moment most likely hit in a midwestern, red-bricked dormitory. Tune your time turning musical transport to 1989-1990. Let us revisit the salad years of an under-utilized undergraduate college. The VU-soaked, jangle-garage vibe was in heavy rotation on the college radio airwaves of that personally seminal era. I read a lot of music mags at the time, too. I recall the full-throated critical endorsements of the Velvets on every best-of and must-have list of the indie and commercial rags. In 1990, I was a poorly dressed, bespectacled college sophomore skipping my required reading for beer benders…
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The Love Dimension – Balance Album Review
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…
