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Review: Tigers On Opium ‘Psychodrama’

7th March 20247th March 2024 Martin Williams Heavy Psych Sounds, Prog, Stoner Rock, Tigers On Opium

I first stumbled upon Portland, Oregon’s Tigers On Opium sometime over the last few years due to a Bandcamp recommendation

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Review: Deadpeach ‘The Cosmic Haze And the Human Race’

1st March 20241st March 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Deadpeach, Independent, Psych, Stoner Rock

‘Let me please introduce the band, a bunch of freaks from planet Earth. Now we need to destroy your city.

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Review: Sundrifter ‘An Earlier Time’

23rd February 202423rd February 2024 El Jefe Desert Rock, Small Stone Records, Stoner Rock, Sundrifter

Boston has a pretty decent history when it comes to quality (and diverse) rock and roll Aerosmith fr’instance, and on

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Review: Volume ‘Requesting Permission To Land’ [Reissue]

21st November 202323rd February 2024 Spring ‘The Strutter’ Chase Desert Rock, Echodelick Records, Ramble Records, Stoner Rock, Volume, We Here And Now, Weird Beard Records, Worst Bassist Records

Two types of Kyuss fans remain long after the dust has settled. Kyuss friends and fans that followed everyone over

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Review: Fire Down Below ‘Low Desert Surf Club’

20th November 202323rd February 2024 Spring ‘The Strutter’ Chase Desert Rock, Fire Down Below, Ripple Music, Stoner Rock

Start tossing some tomatoes at me. I was an idiot for not opening Low Desert Surf Club earlier. I tore

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Review: Yawning Balch ‘Volume Two’

6th November 202323rd February 2024 Martin Williams Bob Balch, Desert Rock, Fu Manchu, Heavy Psych Sounds, Psych, Stoner Rock, Yawning Balch, Yawning Man

Here, we have Volume Two of Yawning Balch, the heralded collaboration between Fu Manchu’s lead guitarist Bob Balch and desert

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Featured Streams 

Premiere: Nebula ‘Livewired In Europe’ – Drops Tomorrow, 25th October, via Heavy Psych Sounds

26th October 202323rd February 2024 Lee Edwards Fuzz, Heavy Psych Sounds, Nebula, Psych, Stoner Rock

What is left to say about California’s heavy psych, fuzz and stoner stalwarts Nebula? Not an awful lot really as

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Video Premiere: L’uomo Nero ‘Water Or Fire’ – From New EP ‘Voda Alebo Oheň’ That’s Out Now

25th October 202323rd February 2024 Lee Edwards Desert Records, Desert Rock, L’uomo Nero, Rock 'n' Roll, Stoner Rock

Albuquerque’s blues and desert rock and roll power trio L’uomo Nero dropped Voda Alebo Oheň last Friday, 20th October through

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Review: Nebula ‘Livewired In Europe’

25th October 202317th July 2024 Martin Williams Fuzz, Heavy Psych Sounds, Nebula, Psych, Stoner Rock

Legendary Southern California stoner rock originators Nebula have had plenty of highs, coupled with a devastating low, since their reformation

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Review: Yawning Man ‘Pot Head’ EP [Reissue]

20th September 202323rd February 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Desert Rock, Ripple Music, Stoner Rock, Yawning Man

Some bands are just destined to pass into mythical status. Many column inches, words and video reels have been committed

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Featured Live Reviews 

Brant Bjork Trio / Yawning Balch @ Knitting Factory, North Hollywood, 8th September 2023

18th September 202323rd February 2024 Rob Walsh Bob Balch, Brant Bjork, Desert Rock, Heavy Psych Sounds, Knitting Factory, North Hollywood, Psych, Stoner Rock, Yawning Balch, Yawning Man

Originally established in New York in 1987, the Knitting Factory is something of a venue franchise here in the States.

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