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Revisiting Simply Saucer’s Cyborgs Revisited
10.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Since it’s Halloween week, and I always associate Orson Wells’ War of the Worlds broadcast with the holiday, it seemed like a decent time for posting proper on some Simply Saucer. Though their name sounds like an item you might pick up at your nearby intergalactic grocery stop, their astral psychedelic garage transmissions more than [...]
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Fairport Convention Uber Alles
10.27.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

With that autumnal chill now prominently in the air, I figured it would be appropriate to discuss my favorite fall-time electric folk collective. There’s nothing better than Fairport Convention on the ghetto blaster as the soundtrack to a crisp, dry, cool autumn evening. Evidently, the band agrees as well. Look at all [...]
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A Side of Marmalade
10.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Especially in music, it seems there are a lot of names that most prominently exist as a footnote. I’m sure that’s a peculiar place to find oneself in. You see this often in the quite communal scenes of the late ’60s and early ’70s, the best example being the Beatles and how everyone [...]
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Hush Arbors Releases a Scorcher
10.23.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

You’re more than welcome, of course, to read my additional commentary on this matter, but if you just want the gist of it, all you need to know is that Hush Arbors‘ new eponymous record is a scorcher! It laid my ghetto blaster to waste.
I already expected Keith Wood’s (a.k.a. Hush Arbors) debut for Ecstatic [...]
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Religious Knives’ Gnarly Magical Mystery Tour
10.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Of course it’s no surprise that the new Religious Knives full-length is good. Like Smuckers, if it says Ecstatic Peace on the label, it has to be good. With that said, The Door is still a nice surprise, considering how different it sounds from Resin released earlier this year (though the latter is [...]
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No-Fi Psych with Sic Alps, US Girls, and The N.E.C.
10.21.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

I should be releasing my best of 2008 list next month at this time. As a preview, you can bet that San Francisco’s Sic Alps will be firmly planted in the northern latitudes of the list. This isn’t your father’s unwashable, filthy, no-fi psychedelic rock scuz - Sic Alps twist, creak, and thump, taking you [...]
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Battles - “Tonto” and “Bad Trails” Live
10.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Interestingly enough, I had the pleasure of seeing both Battles and Don Caballero play within a few months of each other last year at the ol’ music venue I used to help book and promote. This is significant as guitarist Ian Williams (pictured above, courtesy of Radio Free Chicago) brought his non-soloing fingertap riffage [...]
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Women Shatter Glass Ceilings, Eardrums, Et Al.
10.20.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

I love the new self-titled album by Women. It’s currently available on the near flawless Jagjaguwar label, and since it’s based in Bloomington, serves as possibly the only really awesome thing about Indiana. As you can see, Women is (presumably) four dudes. Sausage fest!
I was introduced to Women (that sounds so odd) by a fellow [...]
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Trap Door: An International Psychedelic Mystery Mix
10.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

A while ago, I impulsively picked up this comp at the Wicker Park area Reckless Records. When I approached the counter, the clerk, temporarily abandoning the general affected demeanor of a record store employee, exclaimed “man, I was wondering when someone was finally going to pick that up!” So I figured I gripped something pretty [...]
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Lush’s Gala Will Destroy You
10.14.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I had to go through a labyrinth of amazing old school Geocities websites to find a decent photo of Lush. The mid-’90s was such a golden age for web design, ya’ll. Why don’t designers use wicked animated GIFs anymore? Man… fuckin’ Geocities… oooh weee. I had a Geocities website and it ruled so hard.
Anyway, conventional [...]