I’ve been really, really excited about the new Black Mountain album, their first two records are in constant rotation on my turntable.  ”Wilderness Heart” is a little bit more straightforward rock than their last one, but I still think it’s great.  For some reason, “In The Future” always sounded pretty dark and occult to me, [...]

We couldn’t possibly be any more excited for a new album from Sweden’s Dungen. These guys have staked out a unique claim in the modern rock landscape by raining acid-sunshine guitar licks upon all the hip young men in tight jeans and busting out smooth jazz melodies for the ladies. The sensual sounds of the [...]

First, let me start off by saying this new single from Moon High looks amazing.  Oftentimes though, a beautiful package contains a turd of a record.  That is not the case here though, the band plays beautiful Americana-tinged folk music, sure to dampen the eyes of any god-fearing Neil Young fan.  Colored vinyl, screenprinted packaging, [...]

A new, full length effort from Natural Snow Buildings’ Mehdi Ameziane on the always excellent Blackest Rainbow label. Low-lit and folk-tinged psychedelia is lovingly etched into each and every groove on this record – the usual high quality music we have come to expect from Blackest Rainbow. Still available from the source at blackest-rainbow.moonfruit.com or available [...]

This summer marks the three year anniversary for the Immune label, so they’re releasing an extra-special version of their very first release, Death Vessel’s “Stay Close”.  Death Vessel is the creative outlet of Joel Thibodeau, a truly powerful force in folk music.  This version was pressed on clear vinyl at RTI, comes packaged in a [...]

OMGV label favorite Woodsist now has a vinyl edition of their previously released on cassette compilation Welcome Home / Diggin’ The Universe. If you picked up that cassette version, then you know this is a great compilation – featuring tracks from Woods, Moon Duo and a slew of other Woodsist artists that we talk about [...]

Yet another tip from GvB, this time about San Francisco’s The Sandwitches.  The new “Duck, Duck, Goose!” EP finds them playing some unbelievably haunting, moody, beautiful acoustic songs.  It features a cover of a Tim Cohen song, is a one-sided 12″, has an edition of 500, and costs only $10 shipped.  You can grab it [...]

I was just about to write about the new Mountain Man 10″ EP coming out July 20th on Underwater Peoples, but the full-length album that comes out the same day has the same five songs, plus eight more.  I’m gonna have to say that the full album is the safer bet, but the EP contains [...]

Meant to tell you guys about this one a little earlier but seeing as how Blackest Rainbow is now shipping out pre-orders with less than 15 copies left in stock I have pretty much failed all of you occult-folk fanatics (of which there are probably also less than 15). To be honest, I was not [...]

Does what it says on the tin. Insound has tons of records, you have lots of empty shelf space. If you don’t, then you need to buy some new shelves and place an order at Insound where the entire store is 15% off for an entire week using coupon code “swjune15″ – insound.com.

Looks like Matador will squeeze in another Kurt Vile release before his upcoming new full-length album.  “Square Shells” is a nice little EP that features seven new examples of Vile’s beautiful songwriting.  This material is more dense and less instantly accessible than some of his other work, but it becomes exponentially more rewarding upon repeat [...]

Just caught wind of this amazing new record that totally knocked me off my feet.  “&hope still” is the new album by Texas one-man-band, Silent Land Time Machine.  This is pretty much the most unclassifiable and impossible to pigeonhole piece of music I’ve ever listened to.  Layers upon layers of instruments eventually transform these songs [...]

I’m not sure why this didn’t get posted the first time around, but luckily you can still score a super limited version.  Initially pressed in an edition of 1000 on black vinyl (still in print here) and 100 copies on red (long gone), the third edition is on blue vinyl, limited to a scarce 100 [...]

Looks like Mexican Summer is rolling out some vinyl reissues, something that I’m not sure they’ve done before.  Then again, I’m not sure they’ve had many bands as successful as these before.  Looks like the new batch includes new pressings of Pearl Harbour’s “Something About The Chaparrals” (beautiful pop stuff), Real Estate’s “Reality” (sun-drenched psychedelic [...]

Break out your rawhide blouses and battle maces, gentlemen. This epic 7xLP tome has been ensconced in a wooden box, hewn from the plank of a tree failed by a lumberjack wearing panda makeup and spiked amulets. In all seriousness though, these 3 albums from occult-folksters Agalloch have been out-of-print and fetching large sums on [...]