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Review: Various Artists ‘Day Old Donuts’

8th August 20248th August 2024 Reza Mills Balm, Berton Averre, Bovine Nightmares, Chaser, Chip Whitson, Dead Senses, Genre Is Death, Heckel & Jeckel, Love Ethic, Matte Martin, Night Goat, Noise-Rock, Old Coffins, Post-Punk, Skeletonized, The Triceratops, Various Artists, Wax Donut Records

Wax Donuts Records latest release Day Old Donuts is a collection of covers of early rock and roll classics which,

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Review: Various Artists ‘Brown Acid The Eighteenth Trip’

9th May 20249th May 2024 Martin Williams Brown Acid, Heavy Rock, Permanent Records, Proto-Metal, Psych, RidingEasy Records, Various Artists

Spring is in the air, and with that we can count on warmer weather, everyone’s favorite, annual stoner holiday, and

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Review: Various Artists ‘Wax Donut Presents: Goat, A Jesus Lizard Tribute’

20th March 202420th March 2024 Reza Mills Alternative, Bovine Nightmares, Dead Mammals, Kuhn Fu, Neon Kittens, Night Goat, Post-Punk, Prosthetic Bung, Sinking Suns, The Kronk Men, Trigger Cut, Various Artists, Wax Donut Records, Wipes

The Jesus Lizard formed in 1987 and are considered one of the seminal artists of the 1990’s who have influenced

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Review: Various Artists ‘New Wave Donut’

11th March 202411th March 2024 Reza Mills Basement Family, Bovine Nightmares, Glose, Naw, New Wave, Night Goat, Post-Punk, Science Man, The Kronk Men, Various Artists, Wax Donut Records, Wipes

Wax Donut label head Morey Straus, much like myself is ‘a total nut for the new wave and post-punk music

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Review: Various Artists ‘Hearts & Minds & Crooked Beats’

2nd February 20242nd February 2024 Reza Mills Big League, Julia Massey, Labasheeda, Mirah, Punk, Seán Barna, Shared Medium, Smokey Brights, TEKE::TEKE, The Dandy Warhols, The Gotobeds, The Rust And The Fury, Various Artists

‘People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world’ – Joe Strummer So reads the

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Review: Various Artists ‘Blast No.1 – Blastbeat Tribute To Type O Negative’

18th December 202318th December 2023 David J McLaren 783punx, Grind, Hardcore, Punk, Various Artists

Type O Negative were an important band during my formative mid-to-late teen years. They weren’t a top tier band in

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Review: Various Artists ‘Superunknown Redux’

25th July 202325th July 2023 Martin Williams Beastwars, Darkher, Doom, Dozer, Frayle, Grunge, High Priest, Horseburner, Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows, Magnetic Eye Records, Marc Urselli, Marissa Nadler, Somnuri, Soundgarden, Spotlights, The Age Of Truth, Ufomammut, Valley Of The Sun, Various Artists, Witch Mountain

Here, we have the second of Magnetic Eye Records Soundgarden tributes, this one, focusing on the band’s game-changing 1994 commercial

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Review: Various Artists ‘Best Of Soundgarden Redux’

20th July 202320th July 2023 Martin Williams Blue Heron, Dendrites, Doom, Freedom Hawk, Grunge, Heavy Temple, High Desert Queen, Josiah, Lamassu, Magnetic Eye Records, Milana, Mirakler, Miss Lava, Restless Spirit, Soundgarden, Spotlights, Sun Crow, Swamp Coffin, Various Artists, Witch Ripper

I’m going to go ahead and get this out of the way now: Soundgarden is one of my all-time favorite

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Various Artists ‘Budgie – Never Turn Your Back On A Friend – 50 Years Later’

3rd July 20233rd July 2023 Simon Brotherton Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Alunah, Budgie, Firegarden, Great Electric Quest, Heavy Rock, La Chinga, Low Voltage, Pale Wizard Records, Regulus, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Solar Sons, Syncolima, Various Artists

Probably like quite a lot of people reading this, my introduction to Budgie was Metallica’s memorable versions of Crash Course

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Video Premiere: Marissa Nadler ‘Sad Cinderella’ – Taken From ‘Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Vol. III’

16th June 202227th July 2022 Lee Edwards Amenra, Cave In, Country, Folk, Marissa Nadler, My Proud Mountain, Neurot Recordings, Townes Van Zandt, Various Artists

At Shaman HQ we have a long-standing history with the singer songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Since its inception back in

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Review: Various Artists ‘Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Vol. III’

8th June 202215th July 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Amenra, Cave In, Country, Folk, Marissa Nadler, My Proud Mountain, Neurot Recordings, Townes Van Zandt, Various Artists

Time and circumstance have meant that it has been a long time since the last entry in the My Proud

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