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This brilliant new track from New York’s Anna Bradley comes off the third edition of Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen compilation of artists, a free download over at BandCamp. The harmonies on this track really...

The Brooklyn quintet formed from a long bubbling friendship between bassist Jay Goodman, drummer Alex Beckmann, and lead singer/composer Grayson Sanders. Many parties, road trips, and treacherous leaky basements fraught...

Our musical crosshairs set themselves on Columbus, Ohio this psychedelic weekend, with an explosive set of blues flavored rock from trio Mount Carmel. The group has released a new album on Siltbreeze called Real Women, a...

Icarus Himself was started by Nick Whetro in 2008 as a solo project and has developed into a trio to include drummer Brad Kolberg and multi-instrumentalist Karl Christenson. Career Culture is the third in a series of...

Taking their name from a spiritual village in India, Dust of Vraj is a cultural presentation of east meets west in a musical style that’s cutting edge, incorporating classical Indian instruments, ancient Sanskrit...

Formerly known as Loxsly, Austin’s Royal Forest are slated to perform at this years musical edition of the South by Southwest Festival on Sat March 19th at the Marq – 11pm. You can pick up Royal Forest’s...

Named after a vintage Gretsch bass drum pedal, Floating Action is the pseudonym of Black Mountain, North Carolina-based musician, songwriter, and producer Seth Kauffman. Following the 2007 homemade gem Research (released...

Sun Airway is a project from ex-A-Sides Patrick Marsceill and Jon Bathmus. After releasing a 4-song EP called ‘Oh, Naoko,’ they released their first full-length, ‘Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier,’ on...

Wolf People are an English psychedelic rock band based in London, Bedford and North Yorkshire. They formed in 2006 around the release of a very limited CD EP on Sea Records as part of the Lifeboat Series.  They then...

From the album In Consonance, Pt. 1 Prepare thyself, musical adventurer, for a trip down this swirling psychedelic rabbit hole from Toronto’s lovely VOWLS. Treading softly on the mossy cool rocks of Beatles “Dear...

From their recently released self-titled EP Conceived by songwriters Donna Jay Rubin and Chris Schadler upon Rubin’s return from the West coast, Fists of Love began as a three-piece joined by drummer Mathew Arnold...

From their just-released album Animals In Bloom on Reapandsow Inc Big Light is a rock band from San Francisco. Formed in 2007 as a vehicle for singer/guitarist Fred Torphy to get his songs into the world, the band...

Today we feel privileged to showcase the band MASERATI, a psychedelic post-rock group from Athens, Georgia. Unfortunately they are going through some tough times; apparently a terrible tragedy struck on November 8th when...

Brilliant pop with tinges of soft rock, folk and lysergic jangle. From their recent EP The Soft Skin. The brown recluse spider or violin spider, Loxosceles reclusa, is a well-known member of the family Sicariidae...

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros is a sizable indie folk-revival formed by Alex Ebert of Los Angeles electro-rock group ImaRobot, an endeavour that started to take shape after the musicians separated from Virgin...

San Francisco , California , US Built around glacial Pink Floyd rhythms and spacey guitar and keyboard textures, the New Slave boast a psychedelic sound. But for all of the space they create, this band is focused: the...

Experimental Aircraft was formed in October 1997 in Austin, Texas. Two years after formation, the band produced and released their self-titled debut in 1999 on sleepy bunny records (a fictitious local label). In March of...

This last week I was invited out to the Viper Room on Sunset to witness a live performance by the Fullerton, OC based independent rock six-piece, The Living Suns. The Living Suns combine a mixture of progressive and...

Out of the Woods of New Hampshire, Elks have announced that their primary sound genre is ‘face melting’, so we thought it was time to unleash this pent up beast right before your long weekend starts. Located...

We first heard from Phoenix, Arizona’s The Love Me Nots in IR: San Francisco’s lovefest around early ’07 during the period in which tLMN released their debut album Black & White, which shot up into...

The Turn-ons have been performing in the Northwest, California and NY with bands like Brian Jonestown Massacre, British Sea Power, and Ulrich Schnauss, and tirelessly writing and recording new material over the past 8...

Summer arrives early in the evening here in the US amongst floods, heatwaves, and spiralling oil prices. What better way to ring it all in then with Los Angeles indie psychrock band “Darker My Love” and their...

“Where are the children of table 34?” The Rollo Treadway are five people right now but they used to be only two when Blake and David did some demos a bunch of years ago and then they were four people for...

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It’s time once again to celebrate the modern psychedelic. Some say the psychedelic aesthetic was born here in the SF Bay Area. Others will argue it started in Orange County with the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds,...

We wanted to direct your attention to ‘The Dragons’ BFI album notes as presented over at IODA Promonet. Alternatively you can read a fantastic article over at the LA Weekly which delves a bit deeper into the...

Nearly 80% of the world’s population uses caffeine, and 25% of the population is diagnosed with a mental disorder. Clinical studies indicate that there may be significant overlap between those figures, and that many...