Blasting fuzz, doubled guitars, sitar like instrumentation that was out of this world. The Black Angels are still unlike any other psych band in the world today. Pow Magazine covered all three nights of their San Francisco residency where they played the first three albums in full along with new material.
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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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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…
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The Green Door New Release “Dead Stock” is a Californian Acid Western
The Green Door's new psych-rock album, Dead Stock, marches the listener into the depths of a 8mm film of a Californian acid western and it's a trip you don't want to miss.
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LSD & The Search for God. Kraus. Launder. 5.2.2025
“Shoe-gaze” as a genre of music has been around since the 1990s. I like to refer to the genre as “Dream-gaze,” and I’ve also heard it referred to as “Sea-gaze. Both of which are less condescending names, while they more accurately describe the sound and appeal of the genre. The genre made a revival in the early 2000s, making it more well known to a wider international audience. And now it seems it’s making an even bigger comeback as a popular genre with the Generation Z crowd. This was evident at this concert at Great American Music Hall San Francisco, where the line to get in the door was wrapped…
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LSD and the Search for God – Double EP Review
No need to search very far for standout shoegaze – LSD and the Search for God calls San Francisco home. LSD and the Search for God have zeroed in on what makes good shoegaze good shoegaze. LSD and the Search for God currently has two EPs out – their self-titled EP and Heaven Is a Place – released in 2007 and 2016, respectively. I’ve had the pleasure of having LSD and the Search for God in my rotations since 2023, but this was my first listen of Heaven Is a Place. Both of these EPs are definitely staying in my rotations going forward. The first song I’d like to dive…
