You know what this page hasn’t featured in a long time? A genre-melding rock band from Chicago. Frontier (guitarist Steven Wessley, bassist Kevin Ireland, drummer Michael Tsouios) formed in the early nineties,…
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High Tide – Sea Shanties
From Julian Cope’s Head Heritage, as written by The Seth Man “‘High Tide’ is putting it lightly: it’s an extremely apt description of where this group’s muse was at when they recorded…
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Jr And His Soulettes – Psychodelic Sounds
This is one of those rare LPs that you usually only see once in a lifetime. It’s been repressed and bootlegged and made available on CD, but to find an original is…
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Mars – 78
A long time ago, in a blog post miles away, I shared an album called John Gavanti with you. The No-Wave oepra writen by Mark Cunningham, Sumner Crane and China Berg of…
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John Morgan – Kaleidoscope
“Keyboard player and vocalist John Morgan was a Graham Bond afficianado who turned toward psychedelia as the 1960’s wore on. Billed originally as The Spirit of John Morgan, the band was successful…
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Mahogany Brain – Smooth Sick Lights
This one came into the store a few months ago and I didn’t realize it until someone mentioned buying it. D’oh! “Influenced by the Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat and Captain Beefheart’s…
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Boris – Sound Track From Film “Mabuta No Ura”
The Japanese masters of drone and analog feedback never cease to amaze us. Fans actually never know what to expect from a new album. Sludgy guitar riffs, super distorted psych rock or…
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Emeralds – The Overlook
Recorded from December 2008 – January 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio, The Overlook was a cassette limited to 75 copies and sold during the band’s recent European tour. Both sides of the tape…
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Skin Yard – Fist Sized Chunks
Woohoo! Grunge! Skin Yard formed in Seattle in 1985. They never garnered much acclaim or gained a mainstream audience, but they were a huge influence on their peers as well as early…
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Fugazi – In On The Kill Taker Demos
I really don’t remember where I found this, but I do remember being very excited about it. In On The Kill Taker is my favorite Fugazi album, probably because it was the…