The day before the show, which was Friday, I’d left work early and gone with The Patient Mrs. to Connecticut to see her grandmother, who’d cracked her sternum in a car accident. Grandma was sore but okay, so we went up, did chores, did some grocery shopping, ultimately had a nice dinner out at a […]
This is a record I heard about on the forum a bit ago but never really had the chance to write on. Amplified Heat are in the top four of the most incredible live acts I’ve ever seen, and of all the bands I’ve ever managed to catch live, they’re the one who most seemed […]
Sorry for the lack of posts today. Last night I got a text informing me of the death of my friend and the most faithful of the NYC faithful, Rock and Roll Gina Brooks. Gina was someone who I met when I was still in college, doing a stoner rock show on college radio. She […]
I don’t remember who first recommended I check out Californian heavy proggers Dragonfly, but I’m going to give credit to Rock ‘n’ Roll Gina Brooks, who’s so rock ‘n’ roll that it’s in her name. And if it wasn’t her and it was you and you’re reading this, take it as a compliment that your […]
The second in my Recommended Buried Treasure series, this one is an older recommendation and came courtesy of Rock ‘n’ Roll Gina Brooks, who is so rock ‘n’ roll it’s in her name. A long time ago, she burned me a copy of All That’s Heavy by Maine‘s Rotors to Rust, and only recently did […]
After seeing release on cassette earlier this year through Saturn Eye Records, the debut album from Tennessee cult doom rockers Sign of the Sorcerer, Obsessions of the Vile, has now been given a vinyl issue through Saturn Eye with distribution in Europe through Kozmik Artifactz. Is that news? I think once you click play on “Necropsychodelia” and hear the kind […]
It is difficult, especially now that they’re not a band anymore and won’t likely be again (though one never knows), to speak about Orange Sunshine in terms other than the superlative. Oh they’re the most fraaked out buncha freaks who ever freaked their way onto an 8-track recording machine! They’re the biggest garage psych cosmic […]
In these times of heavy music market saturation, a band looking to stand out from the crowd has to employ any and all methods for doing so possible. It ain’t easy. But even something small, like putting emojis around the song titles of your record on Bandcamp, can catch the eye. I hadn’t seen that […]
