The Blank Tapes are currently on tour in support of their new EP, Super Bloom. The 6 track EP is full of stoney, California psych pop and is heavily instrumental. Put it on for your summer road trips, roll the windows down and dig the sounds. You can get Super Bloom here. POW also caught up with Matt Adams at The Blank Tapes show in Portland OR, at The Liquor Store. We discussed the Super Bloom EP, which was recorded across several sessions and involved contributions from alumn from the likes of Sugar Candy Mountain and Guantanamo Baywatch, but as always was mostly the work of Matt himself. The EP…
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New Week, New Release: The Woolly Bushmen “In Shambles”
You guys, The Woolly Bushmen are so cool. I mean it, these 3 guys just have it going on. They’re fun, and talented, and I just want them to play every house party I host. They’re the most fun thing to come outta Florida since Disneyworld. Last years sophomore release from the band, Arduino, was one of my favorite and most played releases of the year, and with In Shambles (out this Friday, May 10th) The Woolly Bushmen have gifted us another slab of killer rock n roll that I’m sure I’ll be spinning all year long. The album opens up with “What Yer Doing To Me”, catchy, straight up…
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New Week, New Release: Shana Cleveland’s “Night of The Worm Moon”
When I was a teenager, much to my parents’ chagrin, I painted my bedroom walls black. To contrast the blackness, I strung up Christmas lights around the room and installed a rainbow colored ceiling fan- each of it’s blades was a different color. I discovered that while the colors of the spinning blades were indistinguishable when the fan was on, by turning on a mini strobe light, each strobe flash would freeze an individual blade color, creating a really groovy effect. I spent many of my nights stoned, laying on my floor and listening to music while staring up at the stroboscopic rainbow spinning above me. Shana Cleveland’s sophomore solo…
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Pow Magazine’s 8th Anniversary – April 15, 2011~April 15, 2019
Though POW Magazine’s full history goes back several decades, its online presence began in 2011 after Editor In Chief/founder Dennis Gonzales’ “POW Magazine Anthology”, a radio documentary on KFJC 89.7FM about the original fanzine, sparked a renewed interest and excitement in POW and in the bay area music scene. Dennis was inspired to give POW new life, creating a website and social media presence for a new, modernized POW magazine on April 15th, 2011. POW’s new manifestation aspired to become a collective and brand committed to bringing the local and global music and art scenes to the attention of those unaware. POW focused mainly on the music scene within the…
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2019 Conscious Life Expo
Dennis Gonzales and Grace Dunn from The TMA-1 Project revisit 2019 Conscious Life Expo for the fifth year for Pow Magazine. They spent two days at the expo interviewing exhibitors, recording live music, and attending workshops. Conscious Life Expo Conference and Exposition initiates a conscious co-creation for a new world, a world based on new paradigms in science, spirituality, longevity, local and global community, relationships, health, and well-being. Pow Magazine has always reached out to the fringes of art, music, and ideas. Conscious Life Expo is an extension of Pow’s philosophy and we’ve interviewed people from the conference for many years to bring you different ideas, and answers beyond our…
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New Week, New Release: Kingdom Of The Holy Sun’s EP “The Man With The Little Hands”
With a new 4-track EP, Kingdom of the Holy Sun comes back with a bang. The album starts abruptly with its first song, Man with the Little Hands. It’s pretty obvious to me that the song is talking about a certain someone who happens to run our country. It immediately dives into lyrics, saying things like, “feeling like you’re a man.” This song exemplifies what dominant male energy feels like, walking into a room, commanding all attention, and immediately asserting your importance. With a playful and jiggy tune, it covers the fact that the lyrics are an obvious statement on a certain president and his similar energy-ed supporters. ♪feeling like…
