At long last, Totem Pocket, the shoegazey lovechild of Osmium House’s Aesop Adams and Aaron Dooley, has arrived and dear lord, was it ever worth the wait! Hailing from Denver, CO, this new cosmic unit features Adams (guitars, vocals, synth, flute, percussion) and Dooley (bass, vocals, synths, percussion) launching into space with Chris Sparks (guitar),Continue reading “Totem Pocket – s/t”
Category Archives: Shoegaze
Weak Signal – War and War
Weak Signal has come roaring back into our lives with the smoldering War and War. Available today on their Bandcamp page, this album finds Weak Signal at perhaps their grittiest. The guitars on this album rumble and snarl with the deepest and darkest fuzz imaginable while the drums and bass thump deeply with the gravityContinue reading “Weak Signal – War and War”
Wednesday – Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’em Up
Wednesday pays tribute to the country and 90s alt rock legends that inspired their own work on their fierce new covers album, Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’em Up. Wednesday, a countrified shoegaze group out of Asheville, NC, grew out of a mutual love for artists like Medicine, Drive-By Truckers and Vic Chesnutt. SoContinue reading “Wednesday – Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’em Up”
Premiere: Happy The Clown -The Complete Discography
Between the heyday of shoegaze gods like Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine, and the era of groups like A Place to Bury Strangers, there was Happy The Clown. HTC was an active fixture in the Boston experimental rock scene from the late ’80s until 2000. Even though they have since remained a live act,Continue reading “Premiere: Happy The Clown -The Complete Discography”
Bardo Pond – Adrop/Circuit VIII
Bardo Pond certainly needs no introduction here, but for anyone who’s is still uninitiated, they’re one of the greatest pioneering forces in modern acid rock. In the nearly 30 years since their debut, the band has helped to set the standard and push the boundaries for countless shoegaze, space and stoner rock acts that followed inContinue reading “Bardo Pond – Adrop/Circuit VIII”
The Bela Lugossips – Dark
, The Bela Lugossips’ ‘Dark’ is as piercing as a set of fangs and is cold as death. This psychedelic Mexico City-dwelling band takes trembling walls of guitar haze and sharp reverberating vocals, and creates mesmerizing nuggets with them that will haunt you like half-faded memories of a bad trip. On this track, a singleContinue reading “The Bela Lugossips – Dark”
July Roundup – Part 2: Bitches in The Beehive, De Lorians, Hurricane Heart Attacks and More
July has been one hell of a great month for new music. We just had to squeeze in another one of these before it was over. August is already looking to be a cracking 4 weeks as well… Meadowsilver – “Hushabye Mountain” We may be in the middle of a heatwave, but that doesn’t meanContinue reading “July Roundup – Part 2: Bitches in The Beehive, De Lorians, Hurricane Heart Attacks and More”
Frankie Teardrop Dead – All You Need is Love and Fucking Peace
As cool as night and as slick as a razor blade, Frankie Teardrop Dead is a modern psychedelic rock tribe that seriously deserves a devoted cult following. Already two albums deep, this relatively young British band has already found a strong footing and staked their own unique claim within the acid rock genre. When youContinue reading “Frankie Teardrop Dead – All You Need is Love and Fucking Peace”
New Aura – New Aura [Psychedelic Rock/Acid Rock/Garage Rock]
New Aura is one of the latest and most exciting psychedelic rock bands to emerge out of the same fertile Bostonian grounds that had once spawned lysergic legends such as Ultimate Spinach, Abunai! and Beacon Street Union. The group’s self-titled EP features six tightly packed acid rock nuggets that are as cold and sleek asContinue reading “New Aura – New Aura [Psychedelic Rock/Acid Rock/Garage Rock]”
Alien Lizard – Pure Kafka [Experimental Rock/Psychedelic Rock]
Alien Lizard, an experimental rock group out of Gdańsk, Poland, recently unleashed their surreal and otherworldly debut album upon the world. Pure Kafka is a murky dreamscape rich with swaths of shoegaze-like guitar, ghostly vocals and cold synthesized atmospherics. In some ways, the sound here is reminiscent of the dark ambience of The Future SoundContinue reading “Alien Lizard – Pure Kafka [Experimental Rock/Psychedelic Rock]”
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