“Puzzled by this album’s title? It belongs to Acid Mothers Temple’s list of “tribute titles,” although this time it doesn’t reference Jimi Hendrix or Frank Zappa. Univers Zero was a key developer…

“The title of Boston-based band Abunai’s debut album is nicked from the Byrds, and this Universal Mind Decoder shares with that band an evocative mysticism that is delicate yet loses nothing in…

Jan Anderzen, who records as Kemialliset Ystavat (“Chemical Friends”), has another project called Tomutonttu. I can’t say exactly what the difference is between the two, but I saw Tomutonttu at Echo Curio…

From Prog Archives: “The original Brainticket had already collapsed after the recording of Cottonwoodhill. Some of the members went to join future member of the Swiss prog band Island Benjamin Jäger, and…

Here’s another LP I found in the dude’s collection last week. I imagine it to be a pretty obscure (but no the valuable kind of obscure, as far as I know) folk-rock…

So I was in Valley Village last week looking through some guy’s record collection, and I stumbled across a bunch of private press releases that I immediately added to my pile for…

Harmonia! Live! Aquarius Records says, “Record covers like this one just aren’t fair. Michael Rother, Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius hiply dressed on a platform in an abandoned train station with their…

One of my co-workers was talking about this album a few weeks ago, and said I should look into finding it. Amazon marketplace prices start at $60, so I’ve since turned my…

“Orchestral instruments, including viola, trumpet, and saxophone, were combined with such oddities as hippo tube and foghorn to create the ultra-loud post-punk sounds of the Dog Faced Hermans. Although the group disbanded…

You might remember how, four months ago, part-time Swan Fungus field correspondent Ian shared his thoughts on the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in upstate New York. He also took some beautiful photographs.…