psych Archive
16 Jan 2015
Album Review: Son of Kraut: The Next Generation of Krautrock
Though it might seem otherwise to the casual observer, the term krautrock is neither pejorative nor disparaging. In its classic sense, the label refers to improvisationally-based rock with spare musical […]
30 Dec 2014
Best of 2014: New Music, Part 2
Yesterday I surveyed four of my favorite albums of new music from this year. There was modern psych/garage; raw Americana; punk; and classic guitar pop aka powerpop. Today I present […]
29 Dec 2014
Best of 2014: New Music, Part 1
In my blog posts of last week, I surveyed some of my 2014 favorites: music-related books; DVDs; concerts; and interviews. For these last few days of the year, I’ll wrap […]
24 Dec 2014
Best of 2014: Concerts
One of the many pleasures associated with living in the small mountain city of Asheville NC is access to great live music. I grew up in the 70s and 80s […]
12 Dec 2014
Psychedelic Resurrection: The Blues Magoos Interview, Part 2
Continued from Part One… From a commercial standpoint, The Blues Magoos were largely over after the lackluster chart performance of their third LP. “After Basic Blues Magoos, we broke up, […]
11 Dec 2014
Psychedelic Resurrection: The Blues Magoos Interview, Part 1
Forty-six years after the release of their last psychedelic-flavored release, New York City-based rockers The Blues Magoos have returned with a new album, Psychedelic Resurrection. From its multicolored fractal cover […]
27 Nov 2014
A Thanksgiving Feast of Mini-reviews
Customarily, I take Thanksgiving Day off from posting to the blog (it’s one of very few days in which I do that). In fact I generally write the pieces days […]
26 Nov 2014
Album Review: The Movements — Like Elephants II
Less than a year after releasing Like Elephants I (reviewed separately), The Movements came back with 2014’s Like Elephants II. And the two discs truly are of a piece: sonically […]
25 Nov 2014
Album Review: The Movements — Like Elephants I
Every so often an album comes along that really pushes all of the right buttons with me. And as with most listeners, for me, what exactly those buttons are constitutes […]
20 Nov 2014
Album Review: Casual Strangers — Casual Strangers
A fellow music lover and good friend of mine is quite wary of what one might call deceptive packaging in music. You know, that thing where a band says that […]