• Death Valley Girls - Under the Spell of Joy
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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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    Incoming! Asteroid No. 4: Northern Songs

    Defying definition, psychedelic rock exists across a mind-bending spectrum of sound and interpretation. Born from the reconciliation of volume, effects, reverb, and joy, psych rock married post war optimism with misfit counterculture. Their children, a strange brew of electrified folk and barroom boogie-woogie, spawned countless manifestations. Each artist, each era, each scene added its innovation to stretch the genre. Hawkwind and Byrds, Velvets and Verve pushed an ever-evolving sound beyond a unifying theme. Thus, the A-4, restless, modern musicians, suffused in spans of harmonic action and reaction, push towards the future, capably plucking the choicest echoes from the past’s musical vineyard. … the A-4, restless, modern musicians, suffused in spans…

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    HANNAH YEUN’S NEWEST SINGLE: “RUNNING”

    Well ladies and gents, it’s been a while since my last review, but as Aerosmith said, I’m back in the saddle again, and quite frankly I’m loving it. I couldn’t be happier to jump back in with Hannah Yeun’s newest single “Running”.  Anyone claiming to play witchy, sombre tunes with a 60’s vibe immediately captures my attention.  Hailing from NYC and now residing in the Sonoran Desert of Tucson, Arizona, Hannah Yeun never ceases to surprise us with some sultry, magnetic tunes. Listening to her music, I began wondering where she found influence from; after finding out she briefly lived on a commune in California’s wine country with the “Moonies”-…