Hawkwind aficionado Duncan Harris thinks Chronicles of the Black Sword was their best studio album of the eighties. Allow him to explain exactly why.
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Tags: Hawkwind, psychedelic, space-rock, stoner
Hawkwind aficionado Duncan Harris thinks Chronicles of the Black Sword was their best studio album of the eighties. Allow him to explain exactly why.
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Tags: Hawkwind, psychedelic, space-rock, stoner
The Warlocks are back again, and new album The Mirror Explodes introduces a darker undercurrent to their established drugged-out hazy aesthetic.
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Tags: drone, fuzz, psychedelic, rock, stoner, The Mirror Explodes, The Warlocks
TDP’s resident noise-hippie Duncan Harris gets to grips with the Hawkwind reissues. First up is Live ‘78 from the not-quite-sideproject Hawklords.
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Tags: Hawklords, Live 78, new wave, prog, psychedelic, space-rock, stoner
From the far side of the world, Ahkmed are adding stoned chapters to the ever-growing book of post-rock; distance is deceptive, so stand close to the speakers.
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Tags: Ahkmed, distance, doom, post-rock, prog, psychedelic, space-rock
Bristol’s Merrick sound a lot like another band on their debut disc Just Chromosome… but they’re good enough that it doesn’t matter that much.
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Tags: alt-rock, alternative, grunge, Just Chromosome, Merrick, metal, prog
From some Hertfordshire heroin-pit (their words, not mine) come UK metalcore bruisers Scar My Eyes; let’s hope they bring their producer with them on tour.
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Tags: grind, hardcore, metal, metalcore, Scar My Eyes, This Machine..., thrash
The kings of sludge best mind their crowns, because Brooklyn’s Hull are eyeing their thrones. Sole Lord is slo-mo post-metal done just the way it should be.
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Tags: doom, Hull, metal, post-metal, prog, sludge, Sole Lord, stoner
Shaun C Green redeems himself for getting to go to All Tomorrow’s Parties when the editor couldn’t make it by submitting a gonzo report from the frontlines of May 2009’s “The Fans Strike Back” event at Minehead, Somerset.
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Tags: !!!, All Tomorrow's Parties, Bad Guys, Beirut, Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Devo, Errors, festival, Fuck Buttons, Future Of the Left, Grizzly Bear, Harvey Milk, Health, M83, Marnie Stern, Parts & Labor, Sleepy Suns, Spiritualized, The Fans Strike Back, The Jesus Lizard, The Mae Shi, This Will Destroy You, Wooden Shjips, Young Marble Giants
Anti-Flag are fighting the diminishing corner for political punk tunes on The People Or The Gun. Sure, they don’t have all the answers – but who does?
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Tags: Anti-Flag, political, punk, punk rock, The People Or The Gun
It’s difficult to go terribly wrong with the Greatest Hits of Black Sabbath… but you’d still be better off investing in the first four albums than this one.
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Tags: Black Sabbath, Greatest Hits, heavy metal, metal, rock, sludge, stoner