Droning SF psychedelicists Wooden Ships will release their new album West via Thrill Jockey on August 15th. Tracklisting Black Smoke Rise Crossing Lazy Bones Home Flight Looking Out Rising Check out For So Long from their Dos album… Continue reading NEWS: Wooden Shjips to release new album in August…
Their previous album didn’t doing anything for me but this new one – In Love With Oblivion – sounds damn good. Going to get my hands on it shortly and give it a spin. Based on the three tracks I’ve heard it has to be a winner. Check out Through The Door below… Continue reading VIDEO: Crystal Stilts | Through The Door
Number 8 and another mixed bag of aural delights from garage rock to blissed out digi-dub, warm americana to stoner rock. Enjoy and share. You can stream the mix below or click on the right of the player to download… Continue reading MIXTAPE: Mixed Feelings 08
written by Chris Familton Recent visitors to these shores, Those Darlins impressed with their loose and rollicking live shows and they’ve followed it up with a great sophomore album in Screws Get Loose. This time round they’ve found a better balance between tongue in cheek lyrics, rocking guitars and their blend of garage rock and country music – barn rock? The album opens with two … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Those Darlins | Screws Get Loose
The new Boris album (well, one of a few …) Heavy Rocks is set to drop on May 24th and the first track off it has hit the blogosphere… take a listen/download Riot Sugar featuring Ian Astbury on backing vocals. Boris… such a fucking great band! MP3: Boris | Riot Sugar Continue reading MP3: Boris | Riot Sugar – from the new album Heavy Rocks….
taken from his debut album Forever Dolphin Love, this is a taste of the psych pop wonder that is Connan Mockasin… Continue reading ds recommends…. Connan Mockasin | It’s Choade My Dear
written by Chris Familton With recent tours from The Bats and The Verlaines, the prominence of 80s NZ bands has never been higher but the act many have been waiting for is of course The Clean – that seminal Velvets/krautrock/psych trio that pretty much kickstarted the NZ scene in the late 70s. San Francisco’s Sonny & The Sunsets opened proceedings with a fun and artful … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: The Clean @ Factory Theatre, Sydney (09/03/11)
There is a new Nirvana exhibition opening next month in Seattle at the EMPSFM Museum. Running from April 16th, 2011 – April 22, 2013 you can check out a bunch of Kurt and Nirvana related memorabilia. Exhibition Highlights: Kurt Cobain’s never-before exhibited, high school painting of two aging, Reagan-era punks in the post-apocalypse, informally known as “punk American gothic.” The Teac reel-to-reel tape machine owned … Continue reading NEWS: ‘Nirvana: Taking Punk To The Masses’ Exhibition coming to Seattle
When Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton passed away in January 2009 many feared that was the end of the line for the proto-punk band who had formed 42 years earlier. History though, has a way of repeating itself and as happened in 1970, James Williamson returned to the fold, bringing with him the chance for fans to see and hear songs from the Raw Power album … Continue reading Iggy & The Stooges: An Interview with James Williamson
Want some crunchy metallic psych pop? Tweak Bird do it so well with their 60s vocals reminding me of Red Kross with a great heavy sludge of rock heaving away underneath. Caleb and Ashton Bird are the band (guitar/drums) and they released their 2nd and self-titled album in 2010 (their 1st was Reservations) on Volcom featuring the production work of Dale Crover (Melvins). Check … Continue reading ds recommends… Tweak Bird
written by Chris Familton Apart from a few diversions on recent albums, Queens Of The Stone Age have been one of the more consistent rock bands of the last 13 years and to celebrate the journey so far the band decided to treat us to a run through of their landmark self-titled debut album. Of course there was the obligatory encore to add a handful … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Queens Of The Stone Age @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney (02/03/11)
Doubtful Sounds 