Author: Rob Walsh

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Review: Dead Meadow ‘Force Form Free’

5th December 20225th December 2022 Rob Walsh Blues Funeral Recordings, Dead Meadow, PostWax, Psych

Force Form Free is a rather strange title for an album by long-time psych-merchants Dead Meadow. I can’t decide whether

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Review: Longheads ‘Mars Doesn’t Feel Like Home Anymore’ EP

15th November 202215th November 2022 Rob Walsh Longheads, Longreel Records, Psych

Originating in Norfolk before setting up shop in South London, Longheads are a four-piece with a markedly ambitious and multi-layered

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Review: Monster Magnet ‘Test Patterns: Vol. 1’

10th November 202210th November 2022 Rob Walsh God Unknown Records, Monster Magnet, Psych, Space Rock

‘Bought another copy of Zoso… seeds were busting up the spine… I think I wet my pants doing whip-its… not

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Review: Tau & The Drones Of Praise ‘Misneach’

31st October 20221st December 2022 Rob Walsh Folk, Glitterbeat Records, Krautrock, Tau & The Drones Of Praise

‘I am tree… you who would pass me by… and you would raise your hand against me…. remember that I

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Review: Brant Bjork ‘Bougainvillea Suite’

27th October 202228th November 2022 Rob Walsh Brant Bjork, Heavy Psych Sounds

While Josh Homme might embody the power and swagger of the desert rock scene, his former bandmate Brant Bjork unquestionably

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Review: OFF! ‘Free LSD’

21st October 202222nd November 2022 Rob Walsh Fat Possum Records, Off!

What we deem as ‘supergroups’ are actually much more common than you’d expect. But what isn’t common is a long-running

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Live Reviews 

Clutch / Quicksand / Helmet / JD Pinkus @ Regent Theater, Los Angeles, 5th October 2022

13th October 202215th November 2022 Rob Walsh Clutch, Heavy Rock, Helmet, JD Pinkus, Post-Hardcore, Quicksand

Well dear readers, I turned 42 on October 4th, so it seemed fitting that I should go catch a bill

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Review: Faith In Jane ‘Axe To Oak’

12th October 202215th November 2022 Rob Walsh Faith In Jane, Grimoire Records, Grunge, Heavy Rock

Do you know Jane? I don’t. Some people are addicted to her, and apparently, some people have outright faith in

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Interviews R-Z 

The Swell Fellas: Rob Walsh Interviews The Psych & Heavy Rock Power Trio

28th September 20222nd November 2022 Rob Walsh Heavy Rock, Independent, Psych, The Swell Fellas

The Swell Fellas are Maryland-born/Tennessee three-piece whose swirling blendy of heavy psych rock and alternative caught this interviewer’s ears with

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Articles 

No Place For Tolerance Of Abuse: Rob Walsh Reflects On The Dark Secret Of Scott Kelly

2nd September 202213th October 2022 Rob Walsh Neurosis, Neurot Recordings, Scott Kelly

The last few years have seen tragedy in the music world. Many musicians who were completely irreplaceable and profoundly influential

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Review: Lathe ‘Tongue Of Silver’

29th August 202230th September 2022 Rob Walsh Americana, Apt 66, Doom, Drone, Grimoire Records, Lathe

Hailing from Baltimore, Lathe are an instrumental post-rock three-piece with an utterly refreshing take on a subgenre that, like so

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