Thad McKrakenThere are certain artists throughout history that insist their art extends forth into the world from another dimension of consciousness lurking just below surface level awareness. To create, all they need to do shut off their regular thought...
Sometimes the best records are the ones you don’t get off on the right foot with. I can honestly say that I one hundred percent hated bands like Guided By Voices and Sonic Youth after my initial encounters with them, and now they’re some...
Almost entirely living up to their moniker, The Curious Mystery have released a debut album that has immediately raised some perplexing quandaries in my mind. Namely: why, if you had a vocalist with as potently sensual a voice as The Curious...
Scott Pinkmountain (formerly Scott Rosenberg) apparently used to be a somewhat hot-shit Bay Area avant-garde composer/free jazz saxophonist, but then decided that by immersing himself in that music, he’d forgotten the importance of good...
I See Beyond The Black Sun is one of those good news/bad news scenarios. The good news is that someone at the K Records office has been coming into some top notch micro dot acid. Unfortunately, that’s also the bad news, as it lead them to...
I’ll admit it; I had no intentions of ever purchasing another Oneida disc. I love the band and would rank them as one of the country’s premiere psychedelic acts, but with eight full lengths (of which I own six), I pretty much figured...
"Anything that makes people focus more on learning to play their instruments is cool with me." -- Daniel La Rochelle
These guys have been around for fucking ever. At first I was like, “Bouncing Souls… why does that name sound familiar?” I probably saw them at the Warped Tour twelve years ago, that’s why. The Souls seem to be really into...