Nothing less than a volcanic eruption could stop Shrinebuilder visiting these shores last Spring, so to finally hear the crowd roar as Dale Crover, Al Cisneros, Scott Kelly and Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich, legends all, mount the stage is enough to cause several grown men’s lips to momentarily quiver.
ReviewsAuthor Johnskibeat
Lords Of Falconry – Lords Of Falconry
Avid ornithologist John Skibeat takes flight with the Lords Of Falconry.
Winnebago Deal – Career Suicide
With four years since their last album Winnebago Deal return with a fierce slab of stripped-back second wave punk.
Quest For Fire – Lights From Paradise
Toronto’s Quest For Fire switch from their self-titled debut’s tendency towards the sharply aggressive, raw punk end of stonerdom to where they are now, on Lights From Paradise, ekeing out passively-shifting, immersive psych that steadily swells and abates.
Label Profile #5 // Good Fight Music
“We’ve built a company that is in a unique position to rise to the challenges of the evolving music industry. We’ve been on the front lines as digital has become the medium of choice for music marketing and commerce, and we’ve grown with it, embraced the opportunities it’s presented.”
65daysofstatic – Heavy Sky
Emerging from the debris of the recording sessions for latest album We Were Exploding Anyway, comes this craftily-compiled EP featuring six brand new tracks, because surely nothing is too good to throw away
Mt. Desolation – Mt. Desolation
Mt. Desolation is the deceptively morbid moniker for the new vehicle featuring Keane’s songwriter-in-chief/pianist, Tim Rice-Oxley, and their bassist/percussionist, Jesse Quin.
Spirits Of The Dead – Spirits Of The Dead
Norway’s Spirits Of The Dead have clearly combined their love of 60s rhythms and 70s psychedelics with a fiercely contemporary take on blissed-out, wonderfully progressive rock that echoes bands like Wolfmother, Porcupine Tree and Dead Meadow. Employing echoing vocals, vibrantly upbeat drum patterns and heavily-fuzzed guitars, they twist and turn their way through a debut [...]
Kelley Stoltz – To Dreamers
To Dreamers is the perfect title for this album, innocently dedicated to all those nostalgic souls that yearn for a return to a time when things were just that little bit less complicated.
Wino – Adrift
This is singer-songwriter storytelling at its absolute finest according to John Skibeat…
Jason Simon – Jason Simon
Debut album by the Dead Meadow vocalist Jason Simom is as down-tempo and washed out as you might expect, says John Skibeat.
Serpentina Satelite – Mecanica Celeste
Mecanica Celeste is infinitely darker than anything they’ve tried before, and it’s not quite as well-rounded or intricately-layered as Nothing To Say, but it’s still a bold step into the light fantastic.
