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News: This Other Kingdom to release new album on Wrong Way Records
Dublin’s finest psychedelic offering This Other Kingdom have been absent for some while now since their debut LP Telescopic was released in April 2015, so their news today is most welcome. Wrong Way Records are fast becoming the label that everyone wants to know and talk about. With names such as The Cult of Free …
See: Moonlandingz reveal video for Black Hanz, plus UK tour and album news
Ahead of their debut album, ‘Interplanetary Class Classics’, which drops on 24th March 2017 on Transgressive Records, Moonlandingz have released a video for their track Black Hanz, and announced details of a UK tour next spring. The band, who first as a fictional band from a fictional town featured on the Eccentronic Research Council’s 2015 …
Track: Flamingods – Majesty, plus UK tour dates
Hot on the heels of the release of their album Majesty, which dropped on Soundway records back in June, Psych rockers Flamingods have released the title track and album opener as a new single. Kamal Rasool from the London five piece explains the track as “Majesty is soaked in Eastern Mysticism; the idea that we …
Preview: Strange Waves, Manchester 09.09.2016
A meeting of minds in Manchester has set wheels in motion for something rather special that is to come on 9th September 2016. Promoters Strange Days and Now Wave have joined forces to offer an exclusive event being held at The O2 Ritz over two stages, with proceedings continuing through to 1am. Headlining the event …
Say Psych: News – dayz of Purple and Hope for Cancer release
Andy Uzzell over at ace Psych blog Dayz of Purple and Orange has put together an insanely good digital album of sounds from some great bands that you will already know, and probably some amazing bands that are new to you; all of whom have given their music for free for this fantastic cause. It’s a …
News: Black Lips Billed To Headline Fluffer Pit Party
If getting deaf and sweaty at a rock & roll warehouse party isn’t your idea of a great Saturday night out, then read no further. Atlanta’s hottest leather-clad garage rock exports, the Black Lips, are billed to headline Fluffer Records‘s latest Pit Party. In true squat rave style, the secret East London location isn’t revealed until the day of the …
Preview: Karma Fest, Leeds 29.05.16
Back for a fourth bite of the acid soaked cherry, Karma Fest 2016 returns to Leeds on the 29th of May. As you’d expect, it’s a day filled with tunes and vibes from the some of the UK’s best psych outfits , but this year see’ a very distinct international flavour been added to the …
Say Psych: New Music, FOR NEPAL
Although the earthquake in Nepal has largely disappeared from our consciousness, the cleanup operation and reconstruction is continuing and life is still far from being back to normal. Thom Betteny of Sheffield’s Evil Hoodoo Records has spent some of that intervening time putting together a record in support of this very worthy course. Thom has put …
Track: Goat – I sing in silenc, plus Tour Dates
By Ryan J Weaver Goat announces new 7″: I Sing In Silence, they are here again with a more tempered and drawn out sound. This is them cooled off from their thrashing to the head with folk-fuzz balls of worldly theatrics and psychedelic fusions of mysterious quests through time, this is their aural sabbatical. They …
News: Backseat Mafia Live! – Coastival, Scarborough13-14TH Feb
Get your buckets and spades ready, because Backseat Mafia is going back to the seaside, only this time it’s going to be bigger and better!!! Backseat Mafia has once again been asked to take part in Scarborough’s Coastival festival – www.coastival.com – The festival runs from Friday 12th of February right through to the evening of Sunday …