Roger McGuinn interview about The Byrds …
McGuinn is one of the most influential artists and a founding member of The Byrds - fathers of Folk Rock if you like. He’s still very busy making...
Jeff Penczak
Minami Deutsch – ‘Minami Deutsch’ (2015)
This Japanese duo feature strong motorific beats a la Can and Neu! which propel their mostly instrumental psych into krautrock territory. Fuzzy, speaker-shredding guitars and bubbling electronics highlight...
Various Artists – ‘Stay Holy: Sonic Attack at Liverpool Psych Fest’ (2015)
Let me try to sort this out: the wild and crazy folks over at Cardinal Fuzz hosted their own Sonic Attack Stage at this year’s Liverpool International Festival...
Various Artists – Tomato Sauce Lasers, Sausage Lassos (2015) review
Various Artists - Tomato Sauce Lasers, Sausage Lassos (Bearsuit Records, 2015) Listen: https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-tomato-sauce-lasers-sausage-lassos Those wonderfully wacky folks at Bearsuit have compiled another cross pollination of international tomfoolery, glitch click...
The Prefab Messiahs – ‘Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive’ (2015)
The Prefab Messiahs made a lot of noise back at the turn of the ’80s (some of it intentional and most of it recently reissued by Burger Records...
The White Birch – The Weight Of Spring (2015) review
The White Birch - The Weight Of Spring (Glitterhouse Records, 2015) Nine years ago this month (August), one of Norway’s finest psychedelic bands dissolved, leaving four remarkable albums...
Dave Mihaly’s Shimmering Leaves Ensemble – Euro and Solo (2015) review
Dave Mihaly’s Shimmering Leaves Ensemble – Euro and Solo (Self-Released, 2015) Mihaly is a multi-instrumental percussionist with San Francisco’s prog-psych jazzbos Mushroom and this is his third release...
Cathode Ray Eyes – Eyes In The Melancholy Pond (2015) review
Cathode Ray Eyes - Eyes In The Melancholy Pond (Cardinal Fuzz, 2015) https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/cathode-ray-eyes-eyes-in-the-melancholy-palm CRE is the solo project of Cult of Dom Keller guitarist Ryan (if you’re the...
Shiggajon – Sela (2015) review
Shiggajon 'Sela' (El Paraiso Records, 2015) Listen: https://soundcloud.com/elparaiso/shiggajon-sela-excerpt/s-pfhvZ This Danish sextet (occasionally swelling to as many as 15 participants during live gigs) offers dissonant, polyphonic skronk that should appeal...
Demian Castellanos – The Kyvu Tapes Vol. 1 (1990-1998) (2015) review
Demian Castellanos "The Kyvu Tapes Vol. 1 (1990-1998)" (Cardinal Fuzz/Hands In The Dark, 2015) Listen: https://soundcloud.com/demian-castellanos Castellanos has been releasing some amazing music with his band The Oscillation...