Psychedelic music is having a moment… Or perhaps more appropriately, an eternal cosmic now. Whether it’s post-post-modernism’s accelerating stylistic-shuffle or part of some kind of Covid-culture’s self-isolated journey inwards to a post-human future; psyche, garage, punk or whatever ultimately futile bid to categorise its puissant energy you care to use, the form seems an ironically sober response to modern times. As it was in the Year of Our Prophet, Lord Lenny of Kaye back in ’72 when the Village Voice music critic and future Patti Smith Band guitarist laid Nuggets on a nascent Punk scene and blew everybody’s, technically already, blown minds. Kaye’s hoard of rough cut yet majestic sonic…
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PREMIERE – POW LS1: The Alternating Currents, September 11, 2020
"In Memory, In Celebration, Recorded Across America." - The Alternating Currents, 2020
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The Chemistry Set – Paint Me A Dream is a Psychedelic Rocket Ship
Get weird, get wildly psychedelic and get into The Chemistry Set, it's worth the investment!
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Dusty Trails and Tall Tales with Tele Novella’s “Merlynn Belle”
Hold onto your cowboy hats, paper crowns and powdered wigs! Small-town Texan charmers Tele Novella are riding back into town with Merlynn Belle, another technicolor time-traveling record packed with all the quirky characters and dramatic scenery your quarantine dreams can hold. It’s been four years since last we heard a note from Natalie Ribbons and partner Jason Chronis, who made names for themselves in the bands Agent Ribbons and Voxtrot respectively, and their long awaited second full length album opens with a question that many fans may have been asking themselves: “Where did you go?” Judging from this new collection of mournful odes to witches, shrines and pearls, it sounds…
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PREMIERE – POW LS1: Psyched Out!, September 11, 2020
POW PRESENTS: POW MAGAZINE LIVE STREAM 1 Featuring Psyched Out! , September 11, 2020
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Kikagaku Moyo – Live At Levitation – Eastern Psych Folk Rock
Kikagaku Moyo Live At Levitation is an incredible live album showcasing the bands ground breaking performances in 2011 and 2019 at Levitation Music Festival. The album has fresh youthful energy, electric sitar, one-off improvisations, blazing fuzz guitars juxtaposed with hushed eastern acid folk. This is a must have for psychedelic rock heads world-wide.
