Psychedelics

Blues Experimental Psychedelics 

LISTEN: Seedsmen to the World Honor Reverend Pearly Brown With “Home”

May 15, 2022May 17, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Birdman Records, Blues, Broken Arrow, Codeine, Drone, Infinite River, NoNeck Blues Band, Red House Painters, Seedsmen to the World

The Detroit drone blues outfit’s eponymous debut comes out on May 20th

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Alternative Rock Experimental Psychedelics Rock 

ALBUMS: Spiritualized Float On With Everything Was Beautiful

May 6, 2022May 6, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 2022, And Nothing Hurt, Everything Was Beautiful, Fat Possum Records, J. Spaceman, Jason Pierce, Spiritualized

Jason Pierce and co. return to space on transcendent sequel to 2019’s And Nothing Hurt

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Electronic Experimental Psychedelics 

Remembering a Pioneer of Kosmische Muzik

May 2, 2022May 2, 2022 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Al Di Meola, Ash Ra Tempel, Dark Side of the Moog, Edgar Froese, Electronic Music, Germany, Go, Klaus Schulze, Michael Shrieve, Moog, Santana, Steve Winwood, Stomu Yamashta, Tangerine Dream, Traffic

German electronic great Klaus Schulze gone at 74

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Hard Rock Psychedelics Rock 

Are Hawkwind The World’s Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Band?

April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 Tim Sommer 2 Comments Dave Brock, Glenn Branca Ensemble, Hall of Mountain Grill, Hawkwind, Jam Bands, King Kong, Lemmy, Lemmy Kilmister, Sonic Youth, Space Ritual, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stereolab, The Feelies

A new collection affirms the brilliance of post-Lemmy Hawkwind

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Experimental Metal! Psychedelics 

ALBUMS: Everybody Loves A Parade (Even Demons!)

February 12, 2022February 13, 2022 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 2021, 2022, Earthless, Hot Snakes, Mario Rubalcaba, Mike Eginton, Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons, Nuclear Blast America, Off!, Rocket From the Crypt

Earthless take it further on their sixth studio album

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Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock 

Raving and Drooling: Animals at 45

January 22, 2022April 3, 2022 Kara Tucker 1 Comment 1977, 45th Anniversary, Animals, David Gilmour, Dogs, Nick Mason, Pigs, Pigs on the Wing, Pink Floyd, Richard Wright, Roger Waters, Sheep

On their best album for Columbia, Pink Floyd give George Orwell a Rock ‘n’ Roll makeover

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Electronics Experimental Psychedelics 

Submersible Sleep Dealer: Oneohtrix Point Never’s Replica Turns 10

January 5, 2022April 3, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 10th anniversary, 2011, Dan Lopitan, Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica, Warp Records

You can tell from the opening seconds that Daniel Lopatin was ushering in a new kind of ambient soundscape with his 2011 masterpiece

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Country and/or Western Psychedelics 

ALBUMS: Jason Boland & the Stragglers’ Cosmic Saga

January 4, 2022 Jason Scott 0 Comments 2021, Jason Boland, Jason Boland & The Stragglers, Shooter Jennings, The Light Saw Me, The Stragglers, Thirty Tigers

The country troubadours rocket through space and time to find the truth

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Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock 

Pink Floyd Surprise Drop Twelve Post-It Notes

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Tim Sommer 1 Comment Amsterdamse Bos Free Concert 26 June 1971 (Live), Copenhagen Live 23 Sept 1971, Copenhagen Vol II Live 23 Sept 1971, David Gilmour, Embryo San Diego Live 17 Oct 1971, KB Hallen, Live 5 June 1971; Live Lyon 12 June 1971, Live at Grosser Saal, Live in Montreux 18 & 19 Sept 1971; KB Hallen, Live in Rome Palaeur 20 June 1971, Mauerspechte Berlin Sportpalast, Musikhalle Hamburg West Germany 25 Feb 1971, Nick Mason, Over Bradford Pigs on the Groove Bradford University Live 10 Oct 1971, Pink Floyd, Quebec City 1971, Richard Barrett, Roger Waters, The Screaming Abdabs, They Came in Peace Live Leeds University 1970 Washington University 1971, Tokyo 16 March 1972

We listened to all of ‘em so you don’t have to

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Electronic Indie Rock Psychedelics 

Video Premiere: Hirsch Goes On Psychedelic Trip In “My Favorite Motive”

December 17, 2021December 17, 2021 Jason Scott 0 Comments All Nighter, Denialism, Emile Hirsch, Hirsch, Into the Wild, My Favorite Motive, Video Premiere

An electronic mastermind maneuvers through heartbreak and healing

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Hard Rock Psychedelics Rock 

The Continuing Reign of Howlin’ Rain

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Comets On Fire, Ethan Miller, Howlin' Rain, Silver Current, The Dharma Wheel, The Grateful Dead

The band’s erstwhile helmsman Ethan Miller discusses their new album, sharing credit and keeping the ship afloat

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Alternative Rock Art Pop Dream Pop Electronic Experimental Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock 

A Crushd Tin Box: Opening Up the Radiohead Time Capsule That Is Kid A Mnesia

December 1, 2021April 3, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2000, 2001, Amnesiac, Box Set, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Jonny Greenwood, Kid A, Kid A Mnesia, Phil Selway, Radiohead, The Beatles, Thom Yorke

How the new box set reveals new wrinkles in the Oxford band’s pair of post-millennium classics

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Art Pop Experimental Psychedelics 

A Guide to the Consumer Guide to the Plastic People of the Universe

November 9, 2021November 10, 2021 Joe Yanosik 0 Comments Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Joe Yanosik, Plastic People of the Universe, Soviet Union, The Velvet Underground

In this exclusive excerpt from his book, author Joe Yanosik offers a starting point for getting into these Soviet-era freedom fighters for rock ‘n’ roll revolution

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Bluegrass Blues Country and/or Western Dead Folk Psychedelics Remembrance Rock Rockabilly 

Commander Cody, a True Original, Breaks the Bonds of Earth

September 30, 2021September 30, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Commander Cody, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, George Frayne IV, San Francisco, The Grateful Dead

The San Francisco mainstay and trucker rock icon who defied categorization was 77 years old

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Alternative Rock Hard Rock Heavy Metal Noise Psychedelics Rock 

Looking California, Feeling Minnesota: Celebrating 30 Years of Badmotorfinger

September 24, 2021September 24, 2021 Rachel Linhart 4 Comments

Why the third Soundgarden album is still their best

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