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Live Review: Henge / Mr Vast – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield 05.04.2025

Sidney & Matilda was transformed into a launchpad for the bizarre and the brilliant last Friday, packed to the rafters with earthlings in tinfoil hats, green face paint, and full-on…

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Track: Henge release the brilliant space / synth of new single “Slingshot/Hypersleep”

HENGE’s new single, Slingshot/Hypersleep, is an insistent slice of some sort of spacey/synth/prog that blends juicy electronic textures with eccentric, cosmic vibes. Packed with oscillating synths, spidery lines that extend…

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Album Review : Hypnodrone Ensemble – ‘The Problem Is in the Sender – Do Not Tamper with the Receiver’: An epic drone-rock statement from the Berlin-based collective.

So here’s the real sound of the psychedelic underground filtering through once more. Beyond retro, pastiche or nostalgia, forward thinking, lifeblood music that connects the pathways of cosmic rock, kosmische,…

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Album Review: Observers – The Age Of The Machine Entity

Martin Kennedy has been nothing if not prolific in recent times. From All India Radio to collaborations with Gareth Koch and Steve Kilbey, Kennedy has brought us some of the…

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Album Review: US psych-rockers, King Buffalo to release Regenerator, the 3rd of a trio of albums written in Covid-19 lockdown.

New York-based trio King Buffalo will release their fifth full-length album and the 3rd of their ‘pandemic trilogy’, Regenerator on the 2nd September, 2022. Following on from the two releases…

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Meet: Members of legendary psych/space-rock explorers Gong on their new live album Pulsing Signals

If you’re inclined toward weird and wonderful psychedelic explorations, you will undoubtedly be familiar with Gong. Since their proto-formation in 1967 with members of Soft Machine, they have been at…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Par Asito – Singularity

Hailing from Guadalajara, Mexico, Par Ásito merge space rock and noise exploration. Usually driven as a power trio, although this may vary depending on where the show takes place, Par…

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Not Forgotten: Hawkwind – Space Ritual

There are some acts that have survived only to prove that drugs really do not work. Hawkwind are perhaps the most enduring of all the drug casualty groups, causing a…

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Album Review: Evening Fires – ‘Where I’ve Been Is Places and What I’ve Seen Is Things’

‘Where I’ve Been Is Places and What I’ve Seen Is Things’ is, “the newest album in Evening Fires ongoing story. Once again recorded in the their ‘secret Appalachian den,’ “WIBIPAWISIT” was mastered…

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