From The Vault: Moby Grape – “Moby Grape” (1967)
San Francisco, 1966, the Summer Of Love ... it was all of that, much more and much less. When one thinks of the music scene that flourished during...
Jenell Kesler
Daniel Daniel interview
The Lonesome Hollow comes across like the soundtrack to some pulp novel drama, and why shouldn’t it, the songs sound as if they’ve fallen from the sky, with...
Wooden Shjips – “V.” (2018) review
Wooden Shjips - V. (Thrill Jockey, 2018) https://woodenshjips.bandcamp.com/album/v Couch-bound intoxication ... With the star filled nights of summer just around the corner, like satellites drifting effortlessly across the...
Daniel Daniel – “The Lonesome Hollow” (2018) review
Daniel Daniel - The Lonesome Hollow (2018) The Lonesome Hollow comes across like the soundtrack to some pulp novel drama, and why shouldn’t it, the songs sound as...
The Asteroid No.4 – ‘Collide’ (2018)
It’s hard to believe that I’ve been riding with Asteroid #4 for two decades now, with their new album Collide celebrating those mystic years when they first washed...
Luna – ‘Lunafield’
Run Out Groove Records has a monthly poll which allows us to choose an album that they will then press in a limited run. For May’s vote they...
From The Vault: The Serpent Power – “The Serpent Power” (1967)
Many thought there would be much to follow and progressions to be made when Serpent Power (a seven piece band that often morphed into ten during live shows)...
The Black Sand – ‘Into Forever’ (2018)
Black Sand has delivered perhaps their most contextual, evolving and softly haunting album to date, one filled with intoxicatingly delicious music that sits like jars of honey warming...
Chatham Rise – “Meadowsweet” (2018) review
Chatham Rise - Meadowsweet (Picture in My Ear, 2018) https://pictureinmyearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meadowsweet-2 Once again we find Chatham Rise breathlessly breezing into our subconscious with an ever present sense of longing...
The War on Drugs – ‘Rough Drafts (2014)
Released in November of 2014, 'Rough Drafts' epitomizes all that’s wrong with the those who ‘collect’ and don’t play the music. Consisting of two differing versions of previously...