The New Candys are a significant band in the psych rock and shoe gaze scene and Begin Again is another extraordinary contribution to the genre and to their fan base. The music is easily some of their best to date. If this song is any indication than the upcoming album Vyvyd is going to be incredible.
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DOG DAY AT THE SALVATION ARMY
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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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.
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SONIC BOOM’S FIRST NEW ALBUM IN OVER 20 YEARS: ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL
All Things Being Equal represents Sonic Boom’s first album release in over 20 years. You heard that right. It’s also the first to be released by Carpark Records, home to several artists Peter Kember (AKA Sonic Boom) has produced himself. The album shares the same name of Kember’s previous project; he remarks “I learn from everyone I work with, and I wanted to bring what I learnt into this record,” “Everybody thinks about and listens to music in different ways.” All Things Being Equal has been in the works for over five years; the songs began as instrumental pieces in the UK and have been remixed and reworked over the…
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Pow Presents POW STREAM 1
Release Date: July 20, 2020 Press Release: POW LS1 Exactly four-months ago today, Pow Presents started to promote their second live music event for The San Francisco Great Society, but postponed the event one month later due to the pandemic. Like so many other shows in the Bay Area and across the nation, live music at venues and music festivals were either postponed or cancelled. We knew that we had to continue to promote music during the pandemic, but safely and creatively. Our first LIVE STREAM was the solution. On the 11th of September, Pow Presents and Homietofu Entertainment will be joining forces once again, but this time broadcasting live streaming…
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Pow Magazine exclusive world music video premier: URF’s Single, ‘Solitude’
Pow Magazine exclusive world music video premier: Manchester-based five-piece URF has released their brand new single, ‘Solitude.’ We’ve followed URF for about a year now and dig their ethereal vocals and psychedelic guitars. Tearing a page from A Clockwork Orange, “It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.” – Alex DeLarge. Get Solitude at: https://tinyurl.com/URFSolitude https://tinyurl.com/URFSolitudeApple ————————— Follow URF: https://www.facebook.com/weareURF https://www.instagram.com/weareURF https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4jnB9uQw67NhZiD0XY3ww —————————
