Working with guitars, drum machine, sampler, self-built electronics, and all manner of percussion, BASIC, the trio of Chris Forsyth, Mikel Patrick Avery, and Douglas McCombs, synthesize the vast influences and distinct histories of each member, producing a boundary-less, rhythm-forward amalgam of art rock, trance jazz, collective improvisation, and humming electronics on their new eponymous full-length for No Quarter.
Philadelphia’s Chris Forsyth, known for his lyrical guitar compositions and mercurial improvisations as leader of the Solar Motel Band, founded BASIC in 2022 naming the project in homage to the 1984 Robert Quine/Fred Maher album “Basic,” yes, but also to indicate a desire to get down to fundamentals rhythmically and musically.
Category: psychedelic rock
…Cream’s third album Wheels of Fire was originally released on 14 June 1968 in the US; less than a month later, the three-piece – Ginger Baker (drums, vocals), Jack Bruce (bass, lead vocals) and Eric Clapton (guitar, vocals) – announced that they were going their separate ways…
The 5CD super deluxe edition features a 2026 remaster and a previously unreleased phase-corrected version of the entire album. The latter version was achieved by using software to reverse the Haeco-CSG effect originally applied to the album. This was a ’60s audio processing technique intended to make stereo recordings compatible with mono turntables but had a side-effect of ‘blurring’ the stereo imaging. The first CD offers the remaster of the original…
Legendary space rock band Hawkwind return with a brand new collection that blurs the lines between studio album, archive excavation and future transmission. Drawing together unheard recordings, newly reworked classics and fresh material from the current line-up, this latest release stands as a vital and evolving chapter in the band’s ever-expanding sonic universe.
Rather than a retrospective, this forward-facing release presents a snapshot of Hawkwind in motion. Featuring brand new studio recordings alongside previously unheard material from ongoing and unreleased projects, the album captures multiple facets of the band’s creative output, from cosmic psychedelia to driving space rock and experimental electronica.
Off Course, the new Osees record, is only five tracks, but some of them are long, and Dwyer is calling it an album. It certainly takes you on a journey the way good albums do. The songs are playful, funky, and hallucinatory in a way that reminds me how much King Gizzard owes to this crew.
Dwyer says it emerged from endless jam sessions, a method the Osees hadn’t employed for a while: We went back to an older method of writing for this one. We jammed and jammed and jammed. I took the tapes home and ironed out some mutant tunes. We went back into the studio and burned them to tape live and then I took it home to Stu-Stu-Studio and did the vocals and brought in Tom Dolas & Brigid Dawson to put the finish on…
Expanded reissue of the cult 1991 Skooshny compilation, now collecting all twenty-one of the LA power-pop trio’s recordings from 1971 to 1981 including four tracks new to this edition.
Skooshny is an L.A.-based psych-folk-pop trio who originally came together in 1971, a time that singer/guitarist Mark Breyer later said was “too late for the Byrds, too early for R.E.M.” Breyer and drummer David Winogrond had been in a Chicago-area trio, Brevity, before moving to L.A. in the early ’70s to try their luck on the West Coast. They met guitarist/keyboardist Bruce Wagner after placing an ad in a music publication and he continued to be an on-again/off-again member. Rehearsals proved to be tough to organize, however, as none of the three had a car and relied on public…
Black Editions presents the expanded and definitive edition of White Heaven’s brilliant third album Next to Nothing. Originally released in 1994 by Tokyo’s Noon Disk, the full album was only ever available in a limited vinyl pressing of 250 copies. Since then, it has become one of the most sought after artifacts of the 90’s Japanese underground and is regarded as a highpoint of Japanese psychedelic rock. Led by vocalist, songwriter and conceptualist You Ishihara, the album finds the group in a phase of refinement. Taking a more intricate and open approach, the music is buoyant and light yet at the same time, nocturnal and introspective. Next to Nothing marks the first time guitarists Michio Kurihara and Soichiro Nakamura appear together on record after having separate turns as lead…
Headphone Dust is pleased to present a new edition of Hawkwind’s landmark 1975 album Warrior on the Edge of Time, featuring new 2026 Steven Wilson mixes created from the original multi-track master tapes. This release includes new 2026 stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos mixes, alongside an exclusive binaural Headphone Dust mix optimised for headphone listening. Please note that Spiral Galaxy 28948 (track 7) and Kings of Speed (track 10) exist without complete multitrack recordings; the 5.1 and Atmos presentations of these tracks are upmixes rather than discrete mixes from original source material.
Also included are a selection of 2026 remasters of some of the bonus tracks originally presented on the Atomhenge expanded edition.
The Nashville, TN-based rock outfit All Them Witches almost called it quits in 2024 when drummer and founding member Robby Staebler left, but the group recalibrated, bringing on their friend Christian Powers to man the kit. This lineup change reinvigorated the collective and put them on the path to develop their newest offering House of Mirrors.
The core of Charles Michael Parks Jr. – bass, vocals, Ben McLeod – guitar, vocals, and Allan Van Cleave – Rhodes piano, keyboards, violin, along with Powers, worked with producer Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan, Jesse Welles) and have shifted the band’s sound yet again. For House of Mirrors, All Them Witches have delivered the most straight-ahead rock record of their career while absorbing…
The songs simply had to come out. Annie Taylor recorded their third album between the band’s U.S. tour and a run of European shows. In keeping with its title, Out of Scale’s songs are characterized by intense emotions, chaotic relationships and big dreams.
At times we can hear singer Gini Jungi’s suffering. All the hurt and struggles. Sometimes her voice floats longingly over Tobias Arn‘s guitar riffs. But when Michael Mutter‘s bass and Daniel Bachmann’s drums kick in, it’s clear that these new songs will get the crowd moving.
The band met in a bar in the Swiss mountains after a snowboarding session. Fast forward a few years and they are now well known for their live shows, having already played SXSW…
Les Claypool is one of the most creative eccentrics of the modern era, and his latest album under The Claypool Lennon Delirium moniker – The Great Parrot-Ox and The Golden Egg of Empathy – does much to cement that status. It’s arguably the spaciest album of his career, and perhaps the best of his collaborations with Sean Ono Lennon.
After a bonkers “Pro-Log,” the proceedings start in earnest with “W.A.P.” (no relation to Cardi B). Claypool’s melodic bass lines soar over a percussive racket, an impressive and powerful contrast. A spacey organ comes into the mix before Lennon intones his pop lullaby. Lennon’s tune is no more impressive than those written by his father’s overrated band The Beatles, but – thanks to Claypool’s spectacular arsenal…
After two intense albums with freewheeling drummer Malcom Catto on board, Little Barrie turn down the heat on 2026’s Gravity Freeze. The pairing with Catto seemed to bring out something extra in guitarist Barry Cadogan and bassist Lewis Wharton, pushing them to the extremes of their sound. The funk got funkier, the edges got sharper, and the needle was continually buried in the red. Now with Catto pursuing other avenues and his replacement Tony Coote in place, the band pull back from the extremes to settle into a more contemplative, restrained sound. The trio spend most of the album dug deeply into low slung grooves that strut and swagger with well-earned confidence. Coote and Wharton sound so locked together it’s like they…
For his second solo album, Blue Morpho, Ed O’Brien has teamed up with several excellent collaborators, notably Paul Epworth and Dave Okumu, who take the Radiohead guitarist into the new musical vistas that the narrative around the album indicate he was seeking. Finding himself seeking a new purpose and a sense of spiritual connection at a new phase in his life, the opportunity to painstakingly create Blue Morpho during sessions in Wales seems to have come at the perfect time for him. The sense of freedom and creativity on the one hand and sheer songwriting and performance quality on the other shines through throughout the record. This is at least the equal of Radiohead’s recent output and perhaps more pertinently firmly establishes O’Brien as a solo artist in his own right.
Last year, Third Man Records released the reissue of Detroit’s unheralded songwriting genius, Ted Lucas’ 1975 cult classic self-titled album Ted Lucas (OM), as part of an ambitious archival campaign intent on spreading the open secret of Lucas’s genius and putting an end to his unfair anonymity.
Third Man Records released Images of Life, a career-spanning, 3xLP retrospective boxset illuminating the staggering breadth and depth of Lucas’ work, out May 22nd. Disc one, Strange Mysterious Sounds (1965-1970), highlights Lucas’ flirtation with psychedelic major label clout via his bands the Spike Drivers, the Misty Wizards and the Horny Toads. Disc two, Rainy Days (1970-1974) contains the solo acoustic warmth and charm most similar to the music found on his self-titled album.
Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band return with their first new album in a decade III – and their first ever recorded inside a professional studio. Produced by Tommy Brenneck (known for his work with Amy Winehouse, Charles Bradley, Sharon Jones, Beyoncé, Mark Ronson, and The Budos Band) at Diamond West, the album captures the band with a depth and clarity never heard before – without sacrificing the ecstatic propulsion that defines them. The group does not simply perform songs; they create momentum.
Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band are a multi-generational psychedelic powerhouse from rural Thailand whose ecstatic, amplifier-blown folk music has quietly become one of the most unlikely global cult phenomena of the last decade.
“What strikes me again, even now, is that rock from the late ’60s through the early ’70s remains the most compelling – whether Western or Japanese. In the mid-1960s, British groups like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones swept across the globe, while in the United States Bob Dylan famously swapped his folk guitar for an electric one, igniting the folk-rock movement. From the surge of new energy among young people in Britain and America – entwined with hippie culture, drugs, and the radical momentum of the anti-Vietnam War movement – an extraordinary body of rock music emerged, ushering in what would become the golden age of rock in the 1970s. In Japan, from around 1968, record companies began grouping these sounds under the label “New Rock”…
Primitive Ring is a hard rock power trio, forged in biker rock grime, heavy metal swagger, psychedelic flakes, and bad attitude. Their debut album is reductively self-titled and their sound is similarly free from frills and niceties. Guitarist Charles Moothart made his bones in the Ty Segall universe and much of his musical DNA has made the trip, which makes for an album that would slot in nicely with his work. Bassist Bert Hoover and drummer Jon Modaff are also familiar with the kind of Blue Cheer-meets mustachioed garage rockers vibe and the trio lock together in greasy precision throughout the record. most of the tracks have all the grace of a motorcycle doing donuts on the lawn outside a high school on the first day of summer. Pounding the hooks into…
The Asteroid No.4 return in 2026 with In Praise of Shadows, their thirteenth full length album and a statement release that reaffirms the band’s enduring place within the modern psychedelic underground.
In Praise of Shadows captures The Asteroid No.4 at their most focused and assured, leaning fully into the shoegaze sound for which they are best known. Swathed in multi layered guitars, dense reverb, and hypnotic melodic drift, the record reflects decades of refinement while retaining the immediacy and emotional pull that has defined the band since their earliest releases.
Formed in Philadelphia in the late 1990s and now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Asteroid No.4 have built a reputation…
Fuzz Club are becoming one of the key hubs for all sounds psychedelic – whether it is the music that is fully in vein with the original psych of the late sixties or any of the updated versions from there on to current times. In that respect, to all who follow all things psych, it will probably be no surprise that one of the modern purveyors of psych that are Minneapolis’ Jason Edmonds and his Magic Castles, have found their way to this label with their new offering Realized.
Edmonds, as the bad’s principal songwriter, has always favoured that trippy, dream-like thread that original psychedelia introduced (not much fuzz or energy rush there), giving it that shoegaze/dream pop veneer, but then updated for the new century. Of course, many critics have…
Peggy Suicide Cope’s Notes #8 could be the killer: the downfall of Margaret Thatcher against the rise of Julian Cope through New Age thought, fierce London cycling, and a total obsession with capturing the essence of Rave, On-the-One Soul, and the compelling Baggy Beat of his youthful UK contemporaries.
Read through gales of laughter as Cope’s fights with his record company extract from him the most potent music of his career thus far. 52 pages of autobiographical exactitude place Peggy Suicide into the bizarre UK context of early ’90s New Age agitated city-dweller vexation: Ecstasy, riots, dolphins, crop circles – it’s all here.
Then there’s the 39-minute accompanying CD. Highlights include five songs of early ‘pre-enlightened’ material, and Cope’s wonderful ‘A Poll Tax Serenade’ medley.
The biggest Cope’s Notes yet, this fabulous and handsomely bound…
Free Your Mind…And Your Ass Will Follow is the second album from funk innovators Funkadelic. Arriving in 1970 mere months after their trailblazing debut, the record saw the band honing their songcraft, while still allowing plenty of space for mind-bending exploratory jams. The album’s origin story famously involved a single marathon session on LSD. It marked the official introduction of legendary keyboardist Bernie Worrell, and would go on to chart at No. 92 on Billboard’s Pop chart.
Factoring George Clinton’s surprise at hearing the voice of Martha Reeves during a retrospective playback of the ten-minute title track, there’s reason to doubt the Parliament-Funkadelic leader’s memory in his claim that Free Your Mind…And Your Ass Will Follow was recorded in a day.