psych Archive
14 Aug 2015
Album Mini-review: Rose Windows — Rose Windows
File next to: Black Mountain, Black Angels Talk about promise only partially fulfilled. When Rose Windows released Sun Dogs, their 2013, major-label debut, they displayed great potential. With a strong […]
13 Aug 2015
Shuggie Otis: The Music Keeps Calling Him Back (Part 4)
Continued from Part Three… Bill Kopp: A lot of highly-regarded musicians have named you as an inspiration. David Byrne was instrumental in the first [2001] CD reissue of Inspiration Information. […]
12 Aug 2015
Shuggie Otis: The Music Keeps Calling Him Back (Part 3)
Continued from Part Two… Shuggie Otis: But the songs kept calling me back. A song would be really good, and I’d think about it, and realize that I have to […]
11 Aug 2015
Shuggie Otis: The Music Keeps Calling him Back (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: You sent demo tapes to many labels, but nothing happened for years, until the reissue of Inspiration Information with the added Wings of Love […]
10 Aug 2015
Shuggie Otis: The Music Keeps Calling Him Back (Part 1)
“I look back now,” says Shuggie Otis, “and I think, ‘Wow. I must have a lot of patience!’” The multi-instrumentalist is reflecting on the curious arc of his career so […]
22 Jul 2015
Hundred-word Reviews for July 2015, Part 2
Five releases from five acts from five different countries (Poland, The United States, Germany, Belgium and Sweden) are the focus of today’s brief reviews. Lunatic Soul – Walking on a […]
02 Apr 2015
Beatles vs. Rolling Stones: Another Round
Back when I was a kid, the Beatles-or-Stones question was a real thing: among my childhood peers, one had to pick a side. That one could like both groups was, […]
20 Mar 2015
Album Review: Todd Rundgren — At the BBC 1972-1982
Several years back, Todd Rundgren took a proactive approach to the myriad live recordings that exist documenting his long and varied career. A true renaissance man who engenders fierce loyalty […]
17 Mar 2015
Album Review: Gong – I See You
Daevid Allen departed this temporal plane last week. The music legend was best known as one of the founding members of Soft Machine, Canterbury England jazz/rock heroes. To continental fans, […]
10 Mar 2015
Album Review: Harvey Mandel — Snake Box
Meaning absolutely no disrespect to the artists to whom I refer, the music scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s was filled with what one might call second-string guitarists. […]