Tombstone Eyes based in Chicago, Illinois, USA performs heavy psychedelic blues with classic heavy metal chugging riffs and ripping guitar solos. The music combines classic 1970’s heavy metal with space rock, and drudgey stoner rock. The band excels in the extended instrumental passages where the sound grows into grinding peaks. The album also peels back the layers of instrumentation for spacey sonic atmospheres. Tombstone Eyes released their first informal demos in 2018 and Eyes Land In The Sky is their first full length album. Land In The Sky has sci-fi themes especially on the 16 minute track “Solar Barge” which pushes the listener through the Earth’s ozone into the cosmos.…
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Elkhorn The Acoustic Storm Sessions
The Acoustic Storm Sessions is a beautiful instrumental acoustic guitar album with folk and eastern musical scales. The guitarists enter into a flow state with telepathic communication for a seamless kaleidoscope of sound that draws the listener into a meditative state of transcendence…
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The Love Dimension “Tree In The Seed” is a new six-cut EP
“Tree In The Seed” is a new six-cut EP from amorphous San Francisco psych-collective The Love Dimension. A loosely-defined amalgamation of musicians, (they say they can appear with any configuration from ‘solo-acoustic’ to a full 11-member ‘expanded lineup’) this release finds The Love Dimension appearing in our cosmos as a septet. Since it’s just an EP, we’ll do a track-by-track review. “I Promise You” features The Love Dimension’s usual arrangement of male vocals with female harmonies, plus a buzzing-guitar line that darts around the track like a wasp at a picnic. Sometimes it’s buried in the background, sometimes it’s buzzing menacingly right in your face. “Find A Way” kicks off with…
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Quarantine Listening Selections: 3 New Releases From Hypnotic Bridge Records
Hypnotic Bridge is really what’s happening. Continually putting out some of the grooviest new music in their signature small batch singles, Stu and the gang have become a go-to for great new releases. Here, we feature their 3 newest, from The Flower Machine, The Asteroid No. 4 and Sacred Orange. The Flower Machine: “Through A London Window” b/w “One In A Million” Inspired in part by the 1966 film Blow Up and recorded in a warehouse in San Luis Obisbo on a vintage 8 track machine, The Flower Machine’s A Side “Through A London Window” is part Syd Barrett, part Paisley Underground. There’s also something about the prominent tambourine, the…
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Byrd Up! Asteroid Strikes North
"In advance of the 2020 release of "Northern Songs", the Asteroid No. 4 have released their first single, aptly titled, “Northern Song”."
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New Week, New Release: The Cool Whips’ “And Other Delights”
And Other Delights is the 3rd full length album from The Cool Whips. Though the title was a missed opportunity for the band to cover themselves in cool whip a la Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass’ iconic album cover, the albums cover does feature a painting of the band done by local Portland artist Simran Narmis. The new album, And Other Delights is a light-hearted and upbeat trip through some of the essential sounds and melodies of early to mid-sixties pop, and it is a lot of fun to listen to. From the songwriting, with its catchy choruses and sugary hooks, to the production which was done in mono…
