Longtime POW pals The Pre-Fab Messiahs have released a new single today. The band blasts away the 21st century blues with their rocking new single and video, “(Don’t Give Up On) Beautiful Things.” Combining incessant guitar riffs, trippy electro gewgaws, and an irresistibly hookwormy chorus, it’s a modern love song to getting down and not giving up! Dig the video below, and have a groovy weekend everyone!
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POW x Mantis, 1/13/2019
POW editor Sheena Salazar caught up with Portland’s Mantis about their newest member, and their upcoming (maybe) album release. Follow Mantis: https://mantis666.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/mantis-portland https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsBX… https://www.facebook.com/mantisportland/ @mantisportland
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Discography Biography #3: Nick Saloman
It’s 2019, and it’s time for the newest installment of Discography Biography- POW’s monthly look into the mind, and the record collection of a various musician. For those who aren’t familiar with how it works, here’s a quick rundown: As any music lover knows, there’s a huge difference between “desert island discs”, favorite records, most influential records, etc. The ones that interest me the most are the ones that are the most personal- the albums that define who you are, the ones that could be called the soundtrack of your life. Every month here on POW, I’ll be talking to a different musician about the top 3 albums that make…
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POW Magazine Reviews The Small Breed
From the ashes of The Black Marble Selection have risen The Small Breed. After The Black Marble selection quit making music early this year after 6 years together, the members went on to form The Small Breed. The Netherlands based quintet are releasing their first 4 track EP today, December 7th. And brace yourselves, dear readers, because it’s the best release I’ve heard all year. The self titled EP opens with “Bellis Perennis (What’s In A Name)”, a madly brilliant mix of Sergeant Pepper and Syd Barrett with dizzying backwards effects, circus style organs, and loads of psychedelia. The slow, trippy verses paired with the sunshine-y sing along chorus is…
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New Week New Release: Tomten’s “Viva Draconia”
Seattle’s Tomten have been creating glorious baroque pop since their formation in 2010. On their newest album Viva Draconia, released September 28th, they continue to give us a serving of pop perfection, but with added new-wave and psych flavors. Viva Draconia opens with “Balance of Terror”, a title which sounds quite scary, but is actually a beautiful, Beatle-eque composition, heavy on the piano with a chorus evocative of a church choir and featuring some surprising synth sounds throughout its bridge. Songs like “St.Martin’s Summer”, “Celadon Song” and “Gogmagog” have the same pop sensibility, but are all also incredibly well developed tracks with loads going on in them- the use…
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New Week New Release: Frankie Teardrop Dead “All You Need is Love and Fucking Peace”
Frankie Teardrop Dead’s newest release, All You Need Is Love And Fucking Peace is packed full of enough psychedelic dreamgaze to last you all week long. This is the London-based bands’ second album, and showcases the confidence of a band really coming into their own. All You Need is Love and Fucking Peace opens with “Short Story of The Mourning Sun”, a hazy-folky instrumental, before launching into the darker, post-punk psychedelia of “Joy in Division”, and then moving fluidly into dreamy space psych on “What’s It All About”. [wpdevart_youtube]du5sXuhqJ10[/wpdevart_youtube] Standout tracks include “I Love You (Me Neither)” which has a heavy Brian Jonestown Massacre influence, with its folky, bluesy guitars…
