New vinyl on Digitalis. The more enlightened among us need no further info – but let me fill in the blanks for you heathens. Scott Tuma’s new album Dandelion is now available to order from Digitalis Industries, esteemed purveyors of many things psychedelic, noisy and droney. You may remember Scott’s collaboration with Mike Weis of [...]

Absolutely mind-paralyzing aural psychedelics courtesy of this group Messages. Nope, I’m unfamiliar as well… except that this tune of theirs just peeled my scalp back and dumped a hot liter of flash-fried hash oil directly onto my frontal lobe. So I guess you could say we’re getting familiar. Intimate, even. I’ll write more once my [...]

Hydra Head press up a twelve-inch teaser for what is hopefully a shortly forthcoming vinyl issue of the recent collaborative album from Pyramids with Nadja. Lustmord and Ulver remix one of the most atonishing drone tracks to spill out amidst last year’s tar-slick of high-volume clamoring. Hand-numbered to 300, one at a time for $13 [...]

If you’re a Grouper fan, nothing will get your loins simmering quite like news about an upcoming vinyl release. Unless you already have the release in question, which is entirely possible. In that case, hopefully you didn’t pay too much for it on eBay because now you can pre-order the second edition of Wide with [...]

Not Not Fun has posted the new album from “The Olsen Twins Of Drone”, Pocahaunted.  They went on a bit of a hiatus, but are back in full effect.  For “Make It Real”, they’ve also added some new members including Cameron Stallones (aka Sun Araw) to further thicken their otherworldly sound.  Grade-A California psychedelic music [...]

Olde English Spelling Bee is quickly becoming one of my favorite labels in the universe, and this new trio of releases only reinforces my feelings.  First up is one of the most exciting things I’ve heard lately, Forest Swords’ “Dagger Path” LP.  This shit is being called, ready for this…drone-step.  You can imagine already that [...]

Like many fans of The Drone, I was smitten by a little album released last year on Digitalis called Truth & Distance by an artist named Concern. The album was released on CD only, and the packaging was quite exquisite but as you might imagine, I very much wanted a copy on vinyl. Well, this [...]

If you didn’t know, the group name Fenn O’Berg is the result of an unwieldy mashup of the three names of the artists involved. The unabridged version reads more like this: Christian Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke and Peter Rehberg. All accomplished experimental musicians in their own right, on In Stereo they come together to conjure digitized [...]

We don’t usually post news just for the sake of posting news, but Grails is one of those bands that we pretty much freak out every time they even update their Myspace. Which they have just done recently to share some news about the latest installment of the Black Tar Prophecies, also known as some [...]

The fine, fine folks at Immune have imported some copies of Gareth Davis & Steven R. Smith’s “The Line Across”.  Hooking up again after last year’s album on Important, this clarinet and guitar duo seem like a match made in heaven.  As the description eloquently states, “with each side of the vinyl containing just the [...]

Three new vinyl releases have just been made available on the Arbor Catalog. The sounds from this label are always interesting and experimental, if not exactly tailored for mass consumption. First up is Pale Blue Sky with Shades of Grey, a 12″ EP limited to merely 400 copies. Pale Blue Sky is none other than [...]

San Francisco’s very own fuzzmonger extraordinaires Wooden Shjips (pronounced schyips?) have got a new collection of hard-to-find rarities coming out on the vinyl format next month. Vol. 2 follows up the previously released Vol.1 and collects singles from Mexican Summer and Sub Pop, among other psychedelic trinkets and treasures. Poised for a March 30th release [...]

I hate remix albums just as much as any other post-rave, acid-casualty burnout, but this album is infinitely more sublime than your average trance-rock refix. Dakota Suite offers up his compositions for dissection from several of the finest artists operating in the experimental music nexus, and the results are sounding pretty fantastic. Then again, it’s [...]

Not Not Fun is back again with two titillating new vinyl releases (decided to get that one out of the way right off the bat). One new split LP from Psychic Reality and LA Vampires and one new LP from Heather Leigh, previously released as a super-limited cassette tape. I could try to explain to [...]

Newest and supposedly final album of noise dripping drones from the duo known as Yellow Swans – it’s like swaddling up your brain in a scratchy wool sweater. The Type imprint shows no signs of slowing down in 2010, so just add this to their ever growing and already impressive roster of mind-expanding and/or growth-stunting [...]