Seattle’s Acapulco Lips have always been a band you could count on for sun-baked fuzz, jangly hooks, and that sweet spot where garage grit meets 60s girl group charm. But Now — their latest full-length via Killroom Records — feels like they’ve taken that cocktail, added an extra shot of swagger, and served it with a little more bite. Produced by Killroom co-founders Ben Jenkins and Troy Nelson and mastered by Pacific Northwest punk legend Kurt Bloch, the record oozes analog warmth and a lived-in confidence that only comes from over a decade of doing this thing for real. From the opening swirl of “Welcome to the Other Side,” you’re…
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The Crystal Teardrop ‘…Is Forming’ Vintage Psychedelic Rock
The new album is inspired by the experimentation of the late 1960s with psychedelic effects, strong female vocals, sitar and garage rock songwriting. It is 100% analog recording, production and straight from tape to vinyl pressing.
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Dig this! Dean Wareham: Interview and Velvet Love Letter
It’s hard for me to recall the first time I heard Dean Wareham. This musical moment most likely hit in a midwestern, red-bricked dormitory. Tune your time turning musical transport to 1989-1990. Let us revisit the salad years of an under-utilized undergraduate college. The VU-soaked, jangle-garage vibe was in heavy rotation on the college radio airwaves of that personally seminal era. I read a lot of music mags at the time, too. I recall the full-throated critical endorsements of the Velvets on every best-of and must-have list of the indie and commercial rags. In 1990, I was a poorly dressed, bespectacled college sophomore skipping my required reading for beer benders…
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The Love Dimension – Balance Album Review
San Francisco has long produced great psychedelic music, and The Love Dimension’s newest album – Balance – is no exception. A little blues-rocky, a bit surf-rocky, and a whole lot of psychedelic, Balance is a journey into the San Francisco soundscape of the 60s through a modern lens. The journey through Balance was really enjoyable – all of the tracks are fantastic in their own right. However, I feel it’s better to take time to go into depth on a few select highlights of the album rather than each song on the album. This album had really unexpected opening and closing tracks: Frogs of Meadow Creek and Frogs of Meadow…
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The Crystal Teardrop’s New Rocking Single ‘Running Out Of Time’
The Crystal Teardrop lead by Alexandra Rose is modern psychedelic garage rock from the UK bring back the British invasion.
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The Green Door New Release “Dead Stock” is a Californian Acid Western
The Green Door's new psych-rock album, Dead Stock, marches the listener into the depths of a 8mm film of a Californian acid western and it's a trip you don't want to miss.
