From Thursday night, November 14th through Sunday night, November 17th, 2019, Ballard, Washington hosted the 7th annual Freakout Festival featuring all variations of psychedelic and neo-60’s rock. The festival offered seven venues scattered around downtown Ballard with the bulk located on Ballard Avenue. There were 76 live bands performing along with seven DJ’s spinning tracts between the live bands. The venues were diverse and included a coffee shop, a clothing store, a ballroom, a waterfront dive bar and a restaurant. The primary venues with shows going until 1:30 am were the Tractor Tavern, Salmon Bay, the Sunset Tavern, and Conor Bryne. The other three venues hosted early shows until 9…
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POW x The Schizophonics, at Twilight Cafe & Bar
POW caught up Pat and Lety Beers November 17th at the final stop of The Schizophonics’ US tour, at the Twilight Cafe and Bar in Portland, OR. We try to uncover what the secret is to the endless, insane energy the band brings to every show, talk about their new album People in The Sky, and find out what’s ahead for the band in 2020- hint: world domination. Check out the interview below, and check out the photo gallery from the show at the bottom of the page. Read POW’s review of People In The Sky: https://www.powmagazine.org/powmagazine/nwnrschizophonics/ Check out the full gallery from the show below! All photos by Kurt…
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New lineup and new songs from King Black Acid
Portland psych-rock outfit King Black Acid has gone through many forms over the past 20+ years. Daniel Riddle has remained at the band’s core since its formation in the early 90s, and continues to be the band’s driving artistic force. Last Thursday, August 15th, KBA took to the stage at Holocene in Portland OR for their first show in a year, debuting both a new lineup and new material. According to Daniel: “This is our first show out with a whole new set. We’ve moved Gabby up from backing vocals and acoustic guitar to singing co-lead vocals and electric guitar. When both keyboard players left we took it as a…
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Interviews & Performance with Milk For The Angry / The Spiral Electric / New Candys at Bottom Of The Hill SF March 26, 2019
The POW crew visited the legionary San Francisco music venue, Bottom of The Hill in the Potrero Hill district on the 26th of March to see one of the best bands from San Francisco and Italy. We interviewed New Candys (Venice, Italy), Milk The Angry and The Spiral Electric (San Francisco, California) with video footage of great heavy psych and garage rock music of the ages. Enjoy our psychedelic excursions with the bands through sight and sound with Pow Magazine. Video Photography by Dennis Gonzales and Film Photography by Carolina Torres for Pow Magazine, March 26, 2019.
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Dual Record Release Party: Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, The Love Dimension, and opening up, Snow Angel with visuals by White Light Prism. March 30, 2017.
On the 30th of March of this year, one of the best Bay Area rock n roll psych and blues hit Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco California. Music reviewer Dennis Gonzales and photographer, Ellie Doyen covered the dual record release party featuring Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, The Love Dimension and opening up, Snow Angel featuring visuals by White Light Prism. Snow Angel Photos by Ellie Doyen, Pow Magazine The Love Dimension Photos by Ellie Doyen, Pow Magazine Joshua Cook & The Key of Now
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POW Magazine Visits The Summer of Love Exhibition at de Young Museum
2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of San Francisco’s legendary Summer of Love- a time when up to 100,000 young people from around the country converged in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, drawn by the hippie movement and the growing counter-culture. It was a year when music, culture, drugs, arts, politics, and community were drastically changing from traditional norms. The period is marked by groundbreaking developments in art, fashion, music, and politics- psychedelic rock bands, iconic poster artists, freethinking fashion designers, and cultural activists determined to bring change were all integral parts of the movement happening in the Bay Area. As the San Francisco Oracle wrote in 1967, “A new concept of…
