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Exclusive Video Premiere: Giöbia – Screaming Souls

This mystical Milano foursome has been building sonic bridges between the cosmos and what we can call reality for a decade now, and this new offering cements their reputation as one of Europe’s most bedazzling purveyors of neo-psychedelia.

Video Premiere: Repo Man – ‘Sirhan Sirhan’

What is Me Pop Now? A continuum of descendants of the Ig? A comment on the self-fixated modern malaise/ discombobulation of individuality? A nifty film quotation? A trip into the commercially viable? All of the above and more?

Exclusive Album Premiere: AATHMA – Dust From a Dark Sun

We aimed to achieve an altered state of consciousness while making and performing this album so that we, along with the listener, could take a deep dive into the cosmos and beyond.

Exclusive Video Premiere: Tryst Arcane – LURA

‘LURA’ reminisces about childhood summer days spent with friends and loved ones who are no longer with us. This song is a homage to their memory while expressing deeply the wish to meet again by living a space-time shift, like a magical journey. . .

Under the Influence with Tim Desbos from Calligram

Next month Calligram releases their new album ‘Position | Momentum’ which is again full of blistering howls and blackened riffs. Guitarist Tim Desbos talks about 3 big influences for the album.

Echoes of the Past: Black Sabbath – Live Evil (Super Deluxe)

If you’re very new to Sabbath after discovering the Ozzy-era and want to embark on the Dio years, this is the one that is highly recommended.

Under The Influence with Pickle Darling

To celebrate their new LP Laundromat, out today via Father/Daughter Records, Lukas Mayo (Pickle Darling) reveals four records that have hugely influenced their unique fusion of folk and DIY pop.

Exclusive Video Premiere: Erei Cross – Live Session

Erei Cross was born in 2019, when Adrien Grousset and Laetitia Finidori,decided to join forces and work on a new project. Adrien is renowned for his work with Hacride and Carpenter Brut, but this is Laetitia’s first experience as a recording artist.

Exclusive Video Premiere: OK WAIT – Live Session at SoundPauli Studio Hamburg, May 2023

Hamburg’s HDR Noise and Post Rock power-trio play ‘Horses’, ‘Switch’ and ‘Mantra’ from thier forthcoming album SIGNAL via Golden Antenna Records, and prove it’s worth waiting for!

Echoes of the Past: Andrew Gold – The Fraternal Order of the All: Greetings from Planet Love

Throughout the passages of time, Andrew Gold’s fraternity is worth exploring.

Under The Influence with Teri Gender Bender

Celebrating the release of her new video, ‘You Got The Man’, and her forthcoming tour with The Mars Volta, the exuberant Le Butcherettes frontwoman shares four records that have hugely influenced her unique style of music.

Exclusive Album Premiere: King Howl – Homecoming

King Howl’s new album, Homecoming, represents a new chapter in the band’s stylistic universe. . . A mix of blues, stoner, psychedelia, and classic rock that paints the soundscape of an on-the-road story set in 1960s America. . .

Exclusive Album Premiere: Lorenzo Stecconi – Ambula ab intra

Ambula ab intra is an oneiric travel into the depths of the psyche, experiencing the inner path into Self. The outcome is an ethereal work of heavy ambient guitar soundscapes.

Featured Video: Object as Subject – ‘Temporary Bodies’

Paris Hurley’s poetic punk and post-rock ritual, a beautifully choreographed cri de coeur for freedom taken from her new album, HERETIC, via Lost Future Records.

Under The Influence with The Heavy

True to their name, The Heavy gave us considered and heartfelt responses as they chose the four albums that have proved the greatest influences on their music.

Under The Influence: Michelle Malley from IRESS

On the release of their mesmerising doomgaze EP, Solace, singer amd guitarist Michelle Malley chooses three albums that proved the greatest influence on the sound of their latest record.

Under the Influence with Curran Reynolds from Body Stuff

Curran Reynolds (ex-Today Is The Day) talks to us about 3 releases that have influenced him and his latest musical project Body Stuff.

Under the Influence with Joni Void

With the release of Joni Void’s 3rd album for Constellation, Everyday Is The Song, we got in touch to ask about 3 records that have been a huge influence.

Under the Influence with Jacob Lee from Elder Devil

Elder Devil guitarist Jacob Lee talks about 3 releases that have influenced him and Elder Devil in the creation of their second album ‘Everything Worth Loving’, out soon on Prosthetic Records.

Francis Monkman 1949-2023

When you look back at his career, you can tell that Francis himself was always one step ahead to take on the next big thing.

Echoes of the Past: Renaissance – Azure d’Or (Expanded Edition)

It’s time to give this album another chance, and understand why it was so far ahead of its time.

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