Like many of our staff, I have been a fan of Joel Gion and the Brian Jonestown Massacre (BJM) for many, many years. Seven years ago, I saw Joel play live without the BJM for the first time. He was performing as Joel Gion and The Primary Colours. The band performed in my hometown of San Jose, California at a local venue. It was a groovy night, in an intimate open space with bar and dining. I recall The Primary Colours were tight – flowing with jangly pop sounds and melodic psych vibes. I was digging Joel’s new music, and I asked him after the show, “How long had his…
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Joel Gion: The POW Interview
Anton's songwriting that longevity-wise, we are starting to (gulp) become the Rolling Stones of indie psych rock or something. The big difference is, at this point in the Stones career they were turding out Voodoo Lounge, where as Anton is right now today at a creative spike.
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POW MUSIC VIDEO PREMIER: Marble Mammoth ‘Higher Than the Sun’
Swedish psych rockers, Marble Mammoth are back again! The release of their new single, Higher Than The Sun, starts off with a music video that will be a refreshing treat for those who are tired of bands posing for the camera.
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Occult Stereo – Plasma – Art Rock, Psych Rock & Electronic
Occult Stereo’s debut album Plasma is intentionally unpredictable and designed to have multiple layers of interpretation which unfold with repeated listens. Occult Stereo is art rock with atmospheric drones, psych rock, experimental and electronic music. The album is a collaborative art project with musicians as faraway as Germany.
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Suicide Squeeze released ‘Under The Spell of Joy’ October 2, 2020
Death Valley Girls fourth coming album ‘Under The Spell of Joy’ invites you to follow their psychospiritual mantras and melodies to transcend your worldly woes and embrace the glorious power that is manifesting JOY. Energetically, DVG captured that spirit with liberating chants, haunting choirs, saxophonic melodies, organ lines, fuzzed out/hypnotic guitar, throbbing bass, and booming drums. The album title comes from the text on a band t-shirt that Bonnie Bloomgarden(vocals/organ) wore while touring for five years straight from San Diego heavy psych rockers ‘Joy’. DVG took that maxim and built upon it to help guide you through this hallucinatory spell of an album. The ritual opening track ‘Hypnagogia’ envelopes the…
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Magic Shoppe – Live In London – Is A Rocking Shoegaze Experience.
Live In London is a wall of sound psychedelic shoegaze, alternative rock album, steeped in 1980’s goth and 1990’s tonality. A timelessness pervades the album, the warm fuzzy tonality washes out into soundscapes or can build into a maelstrom. Live in London captures all the energy of a live in-house concert.
