Lord Newborn & The Magic Skulls is a meeting of the minds between Money Mark, Shawn Lee and Tommy Guerrero. If you are familiar with any of those artists, then you should know what to expect here – heady beats paired with sun-dappled melodies. The LP is being released on Ubiquity on September 8th and [...]

Here’s some Monday morning weirdness for you. Willie Isz is bizarre, synth-heavy hip(ster) hop with a decidedly southern flair. In my opinion, this definitely trumps recent electro-rap fusion attempts from the likes of Kanye West and Lil Wayne. Plus its got Tunde Adebimpe (from TV on the Radio) on backing vocals so you know this [...]

Battles. There I said it. Now here’s a question for Tyondai Braxton: If you wanted to become recognized as a “solo” artist so bad, how come you released that song Atlas with your band Battles? That certainly is a long, deep, dark shadow to try to crawl out from underneath. That’s not to say this [...]

Since Spencer went ahead and introduced you to the world of 9dw (see below), I thought I’d go ahead and inform you folks about their new full-length album.  This one is strictly for the weirdos, Japanese electro-fusion, think you can handle it?  I’m sure you can.  Anyway, this is a 180 gram 2xLP on clear [...]

It’s safe to say these Wooden Shjips fellows know how to handle this whole “psych” thing. Contrary to popular opinion, “psych” is not just a convenient tag for music made by people on drugs. It might also refer to music enjoyed by people on drugs! Just kidding ya’ll, but seriously… this new 12″ EP (i.e. [...]

I’ll admit – I’ve never heard of Transitional. That being said, I’m really glad Conspiracy is streaming this entire album because otherwise I doubt I would have ever heard it. If you like heavy beyond belief fuzzed out guitars and bands like Nadja and Jesu, you should probably check this out. Speaking of Jesu, I [...]

Well as far as I can tell, Allthatisheavy is the first US distro to offer this one up on vinyl. Unless you missed the headline and first sentence of this post, the key phrase here is “Boris vinyl“. It’s for sale. You know how that goes, either you want it real bad or you turned [...]

This amazing collaboration between two left-field metal artists is finally seeing the light of day on vinyl thanks to the 20BuckSpin label. This album definitely gets the OMGV Seal Of Approval and in a year where quality metal releases seem to be sagging a bit lately, this should help bolster the quality of your recent [...]

I think I first realized I needed an ambient intervention about 3 months ago, as I was scouring the record bins for anything I could find with Brian Eno’s name on it. I recognized I had a problem, and made a stern resolve to do something about it. You know its going to take quite [...]

And just like that I’m balls deep in the ambience again. Kyle Parker apparently used to put out some harsh noise under a different guise, but the Infinite Body project finds him a tad less aggressive, crafting ambient passages with more soothing atmospherics. This is available already at several distros but if you can’t track [...]

Helado Negro is the brainchild of Roberto C. Lange, a frequent collaborative partner of Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73, Savath y Savalas, etc).  This is laid back, breezy music with hints of tropicalia, psych-folk, and even Herren’s own work.  All told, this is a nice little album that you can score on vinyl for [...]

I didn’t know too much about this band even an hour ago, but they seem pretty cool, so here goes.  Young Prisms are Mexican Summer’s newest band, which is saying big things.  They are described as “San Francisco psychedelic/garage/beach-pop band, influenced by the California coast, Charlton Heston, and late night spiritual pow wows”.  Pretty cool, [...]

How early is too early to post a pre-order? I guess if you are the label putting the record out, you can post it whenever you damn well please. Hence Beta-Lactam Ring Records posting their pre-order for this forthcoming vinyl missive from Troum. You’ll be sweating until November 18th if you decide to order this [...]

If you purchased the last Eternal Tapestry LP we posted about, you probably wouldn’t be hesitating to click through on the links below. The newest from these psych troubadours comes out on one of our favorite labels: Not Not Fun – limited to 500 measly pieces on “whatever” colored wax. But wait there’s more… Not [...]

Believe it or not, there was a time when dorky white guys with synthesizers seemed like a bit of a novel concept. Hard to fathom, I know. I see dorky white guys with synthesizers all over the freaking place now. Well, these dudes definitely had a hand in proliferating that sort of behavior. So, if [...]