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Inside 'Astor Place': An Interview with Edward Rogers on Life, Music, and Transatlantic Journeys - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

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Edward Rogers’ new album ‘Astor Place’ is a journey across continents and memory.
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Edward Rogers’ new album ‘Astor Place’ is a journey across continents and memory. Born in Birmingham, England, Rogers moved to New York at the age of twelve, but the streets of his childhood have neve...

Psych Pioneers Strawberry Alarm Clock Return with New Single 'Monsters' - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

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Recorded in 1975, ‘Agharta’ is less a conventional jazz album and more a ferocious, hypnotic blast of funk-rock; a dense, unrelenting sonic spectacle where Miles Davis’s trumpet is a wounded howl over a monumental wall of electric sound. (50th Anniversary Edition, Music on Vinyl)

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Strawberry Alarm Clock is back with a brand-new single, “Monsters,” out soon via Big Stir Records. The psychedelic rock legends behind the 1967 hit ‘Incense and Peppermints’ are opening a fresh chapter in their story.
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Strawberry Alarm Clock is back with a brand-new single, “Monsters,” out soon via Big Stir Records. The psychedelic rock legends behind the 1967 hit ‘Incense and Peppermints’ are opening a fresh chapte...

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Underground stalwart Mike Vest’s nascent project, Brain Pills, unleashes a seismic, fuzz-drenched sonic tribute to his Gateshead origins, featuring maniacal vocals and meticulous mastering from crust-punk titan Bri Doom. (Creepy Crawl)

Lost Prog-Rock Tapes from Zeitgeist Emerge After Five Decades - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

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Everland Music’s compilation, ‘Jugoton Bossa Nova: Brazilian Wave in Yugoslavia 1963-1983’, is an essential collection unearthing rare tracks that chart how Yugoslav jazz and pop musicians uniquely interpreted the smooth, breezy Brazilian genre during the socialist era.

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The British progressive rock outfit Zeitgeist, known previously only for their appearance on the fabled 1971 private press compilation K.C.S. Modern Music, has had its complete recorded legacy unearthed.
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The British progressive rock outfit Zeitgeist, known previously only for their appearance on the fabled 1971 private press compilation K.C.S. Modern Music, has had its complete recorded legacy unearth...

Billy Bill Miller on Cold Sun, Roky Erickson, and the Long Road to 'Rites of Osiris' - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

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Billy Bill Miller on Cold Sun, Roky Erickson, and the Long Road to ‘Rites of Osiris’
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Billy Bill Miller drifts somewhere between the desert and the afterlife, a man who turned peyote visions into sound. In another time he would have been a ghost-hunting preacher with an autoharp, but i...

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Earthrise, originally emerging from the New Jersey scene back in 1975. What we have here is a phenomenal reissue from PQR-Disques plusqueréel of their 1978 debut, and what's so great about the music is how they take the lovely, hazy, kind of pastoral prog you associate with Camel...

Exploring 'A Record of Living Beings' with Raimund Wong and Suren Seneviratne - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

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It hardly needs saying that the Dutch-Belgian fuzztopian punk trio Ford’s Fuzz Inferno’s latest LP, Ultimate Fuzz Frequencies, is pure fun, whether you’re a punk, a fuzzhead, or both.

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‘A Record of Living Beings,’ the collaborative project of Raimund Wong and Suren Seneviratne, goes beyond conventional musical composition to become a layered, time-spanning exploration of sound.
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‘A Record of Living Beings,’ the collaborative project of Raimund Wong and Suren Seneviratne, goes beyond conventional musical composition to become a layered, time-spanning exploration of sound. This...

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The 4 Levels of Existence stands as one of my all-time favorite monuments of heavy Greek rock. Originally issued in only a handful of copies on the tiny Venus label, the record slipped quietly through the underground. Writing the liner notes for this Guerssen reissue was a real pleasure.

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The 4 Levels of Existence stands as one of my all-time favorite monuments of heavy Greek rock. Originally issued in only a handful of copies on the tiny Venus label, the record slipped quietly through the underground. Writing the liner notes for this Guerssen reissue was a real pleasure.

Stud Uncovered: An Exclusive Interview with Houston’s Lost Hard-Rock Trio - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

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With only a few copies pressed, it was a private hard-rock artifact, a gem that vanished into the ether, cloaked in pseudonyms and whispered myths.

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In the dusty backstreets of Houston, 1974, three young musicians forged a sonic detonator called Stud. With only 200 copies pressed, it was a private hard-rock artifact, a gem that vanished into the e...

Peter Morén (of Peter, Bjorn and John) | Interview on SunYears' 'The Song Forlorn' - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

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Peter Morén’s SunYears project has settled into a rich, self-aware pocket, finding a comfortable distance from his past work’s intensity.
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Peter Morén’s SunYears project has settled into a rich, self-aware pocket, finding a comfortable distance from his past work’s intensity. The new record, ‘The Song Forlorn,’ carefully opens a collecti...

Joe Morris at 70: Instantiating the Continuous Beginning and 'Abstract Forest' - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

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Fusing together on this very special 7-inch split (PSYLK RD.): Sol Societe and Velvet Penny. On the “Sunny Side,” Sol Societe erupts with a hypnotic, Latin-infused psych that opens up a new world. Flip the record to the “Lucky Side” and float high with Velvet Penny’s journey into a new era of psych.

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Morris delivers a powerful, subversive message: persistence in one’s singular vision is an essential act, a continuous beginning.
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A guitarist who plays bass. A free improviser who speaks in Instantiations. A musician who finds the most complex expression through the most efficient means. Joe Morris is a singular presence in crea...

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Isolation, channelled through Nord Electric, shifts from a simple reflection to a vast, radiant expanse, powered by the driving drums of Neil Conti and the recognizable, expansive guitars of Mark Gardener (Ride) and Giulio Sangirardi... (Outer Battery Records)

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Trapped within mechanistic lattices and spectral tapestries, Diagram's 'Short Circuit Control' delivers an analogic spasm. It’s a deeply felt offering to the fretful self, shining right on the edge of the unknown like some wired, all-night basement jam. (P.U.G Records)

An Ecosystem of Sound: Brian Dolphin's 'Dolphin & You Compilation No. 1' - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

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Brian Dolphin, a Manhattan native with harmonies inherited from rural folk and adventurous 80s and 90s albums, has spent a lifetime seeking the transcendent moment where individual voices dissolve into one colossal, beautiful sound.
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Brian Dolphin, a Manhattan native with harmonies inherited from rural folk and adventurous 80s and 90s albums, has spent a lifetime seeking the transcendent moment where individual voices dissolve int...

Mass – From the Lost Black Mass Tapes to 'War Law' and Beyond - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

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Mass is a band whose story sits quietly in the background of German rock history, waiting to be pieced together. Bassist Günther Viktor Radny started out in the mid-60s beat scene of Regensburg...
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Mass is a band whose story sits quietly in the background of German rock history, waiting to be pieced together. Bassist Günther Viktor Radny started out in the mid-60s beat scene of Regensburg with T...

A Wandering Minstrel: Marion's Intimate Memoir of Guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton and the Early Sound of Hawkwind - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

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The late guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton, whose contributions were integral to the early sound of Hawkwind, is the subject of A Wandering Minstrel, a memoir authored by his long-time partner, Marion.

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The late guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton, whose contributions were integral to the early sound of Hawkwind, is the subject of A Wandering Minstrel, a memoir authored by his long-time partner, Marion. Far ...

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From the mind of Alex Eliopoulos, 'Plasma' materializes as a lucid, galvanized synthesis of psych-noise. Recorded through remote artistic transmissions and incendiary, fuzzed-out guitars across continents, ... all coalescing into a striking, abstract sonic cycle of apocalypse and re-birth.

Inside The Veldt: An Intimate Interview with Shoegaze Pioneers - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

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John Surman’s atmospheric reeds and Kristen Noguès’s mysterious harp on this 1998 recording forge a new mythology of the north, a free-folk fusion where Breton mist meets Cornish sea-salt, and traditional lament is elevated to a heavenly improvisation. (Souffle Continu Records)

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Born from the psychic contiguity of the Southern church and the juke-joint’s humid drone, the core triumvirate of Daniel Chavis, Danny Chavis, and Hayato Nakao forged a sound in 1980s North Carolina that ...
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Born from the psychic contiguity of the Southern church and the juke-joint’s humid drone, the core triumvirate of Daniel Chavis, Danny Chavis, and Hayato Nakao forged a sound in 1980s North Carolina t...