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<title>Wolfmother</title>
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<category>Hard Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:55:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sydney's Wolfmother will teleport you back to the pre-metal rock days of the late-'60s and early-'70s. Singer/guitarist Andrew Stockdale's magazine-friendly good looks may recall a young Noel Redding (the English afro'd bass player from the Jimi Hendrix Experience), but his raucous, riff-heavy guitar playing echoes amp-blasting tones from both Leigh Stephens (Blue Cheer) and Vanilla Fudge's Vince Martell. However impressive his six-string skills are, it's Stockdale's powerful and melodic wail that drives Wolfmother. The chemistry between Stockdale, drummer Myles Heskett and bassist/keyboardist Chris Ross was apparent on Wolfmother's 2006 self-titled debut. But it didn't last; international success, a Grammy (for Best Hard Rock Performance) and even a request from Led Zeppelin to appear as guests for their U.K. Music Hall of Fame induction led to tension and eventually the departure of Heskett and Ross, who cited "irreconcilable differences." Stockdale kept the name and recruited guitarist Aidan Nemeth, bassist/keyboardist Ian Peres and drummer Dave Atkins to go on as Wolfmother. The new quartet released <i>Cosmic Egg</i> in late 2009.
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<title>Pelican</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:31:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Based in Chicago, Pelican are an instrumental metal band that combines elements of post-rock and doom metal. Massive, slow-to-mid-tempo riffs and expansive song structures have brought the band comparisons to fellow avant-metal dudes Isis. The main difference between the two bands is that Pelican's riffs tend to be more rooted in Black Sabbath and traditional stoner metal rather than the post-hardcore arty tendencies of Isis. Either way, folks who love it loud and are patient are directed to this band's eccentric canon.
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<title>Russian Circles</title>
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<category>Experimental</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:13:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Chicago-born instrumental trio Russian Circles combine hard psyche-rock sentiment with metal musicianship to create a loud, at times sludgy, ambient journey in music. Formed in late 2004 out of the ashes of another all-instrumental band, Dakota/Dakota, by guitarist Mike Sullivan and former bassist Colin DeKuiper, the band recruited drummer Dave Turncrantz from St. Louis alt band Riddle of Steel. Making a name for themselves with their poignant debut, 2006's <I>Enter</I>, Russian Circles were signed by Suicide Squeeze Records shortly after its release. The trio tours extensively and boasts an extraordinarily high-energy, atmospheric live show. In 2007, Colin DeKuiper left the band, and for the recording of 2008's well-received <I>Station</I>, ex-Botch/These Arms are Snakes bassist Brian Cook took on the role.
- Jen Guyre]]></description>
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<title>Oneida</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the brainiest and most prolific NYC bands of the '00s began as a duo and has done time as a four-piece. But at heart they're a power trio, given to three-CD sets and conceptual trilogies, to freak-folk and slow metal and Krautrock and dub reggae, to plunking the same note over and over for a quarter-hour or more until you realize they've been gradually shifting all along. On early albums like 1999's <I>Enemy Hogs</I>, they come off as a kind of stoner-rock unit, but on 2000's definitive half-hour-plus <I>Steel Rod</I> EP, they squeeze Link Wray barbed-wire twang and a choogling Creedence cover into weird nerd-rock that balances the sludge with science-lab keyboards after the manner of Devo or Pere Ubu. "Power Animals," on 2000's <I>Come on Everybody Let's Rock</I>, was about a deadlocked presidential election -- not Bush and Gore, but Tilden and Hayes in 1876. On 2002's double disc, <I>Each One Teach One</I>, they carried water-torture minimalism to its breaking point, and since then -- averaging more or less an album a year -- they've gotten both daintier and dronier, picking up indie fans much younger than themselves, then regularly finding ways to dumbfound them.
- Chuck Eddy]]></description>
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<title>Crystal Antlers</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:35:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Sunn O)))/Boris</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:42:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Farflung</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:22:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Since forming in the mid-'90s, Farflung have scratched out a place in the psychedelic community with a reverential attention to the details Can invented and the minds that Hawkwind obliterated. The similarities are often so evident it can actually sound as if Farflung are in fact a collaboration between Hawkwind and Can. That is not necessarily a bad thing as their music -- steeped in sleepy psychedelia as it is -- avoids the pitfalls of much slow-mo space rock whenever the L.A.-based six-piece (three guitars) steps on the gas, which is early and often. Passages of thrumming stoner metal veer off into frequent interstellar freakouts. Yet even at their most far-outiest, the band never loses a playfulness and warmth (think of a physical embodiment of the song "Moon Shake" by Can) that set them apart from the vast majority of humorless psyche bands. The group has released six albums in the years following the 1995 appearance of their debut, <i>25,000 Feet Per Second</i>, the most recent being <i>Wound in Eternity</i>, which came out in May 2008.
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<title>Amesoeurs</title>
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<category>Experimental Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:28:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Boredoms</title>
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<category>Japanese Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:42:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Few artists have ever matched the intensity of the Boredoms. In a frenzy on the level of bands like Naked City and Mr. Bungle (both of whom took strong inspiration from the Boredoms), their epileptic rhythms, firebombing instrumentation and volatile vocal maneuvers combine uncontrolled, frenetic ecstasy and technical mastery. By dropping toy instrument breaks between Grindcore blasts and bastardized Techno, they create their own language out of the detritus of musical forms and take the listener through a Surrealist misadventure. Their sound, as well as their career, is fraught with unpredictability. Few bands have reinvented themselves as consistently as the Boredoms after they took Hardcore music to its self-destructive limit. Always musical saboteurs, they now perform extreme experiments in Psychedelia, Krautrock and Musique Concrete, creating long, sustained passages of mutating, sublime guitar noise, tribal rhythms and tape manipulation.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Comets On Fire</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:31:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Guitarist Ethan Miller and bass player Ben Flashman formed Comets on Fire in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1999. They enlisted drummer Utrillo Belcher and electronics dude Noel von Harmonson soon after. With Miller's wholly over-the-top style of guitar playing (one-half Randy Holden of Blue Cheer, one-half Munehiro Narita of High Rise and the rest from another planet), von Harmonson's squalling use of an Echoplex and the rhythm section anchored by Flashman and Belcher's Keith Moon-esque spazz-drumming, the band became a fast favorite in the underground scene for their ear-splittingly loud and powerful live performances. Alternative Tentacles and Ba Da Bing! both put out very good records for the band, but it wasn't until longtime collaborator Ben Chasney (Six Organs of Admittance ) joined on "second outta hand guitar" and Sub Pop signed them, that they started to receive national recognition as one of the very forerunners of heavy music in the '00s. Their debut for Sub Pop, <i>Blue Cathedral,</i> garnered tons of critical praise, showing up on many indie lists as one of the Top-10 records of 2004. In 2006, they released <i>Avatar</i>, which found the band successfully growing beyond their "turn it up to 11" tendencies and messing around with melodic use of keyboards, slower tempos and more, actually intelligible, singing from Miller.
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<title>Acid Mothers Temple</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 10:30:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Acid Mothers Temple is a Japanese psychedelic collective led by multi-instrumentalist and psychedelic warlord guitarist Kawabata Makoto. Taking ideas formed in Kawabata's earlier bands, (Mainliner, Musica Transonic) and expanding on them in unpredictable ways, these bearded space hippies play journey-taking psyche rock, more purely psychedelic and jam-oriented than the Motorhead-meets-Blue Cheer crush of the aforementioned bands. The band is astonishing live, but with nearly 100 releases since 1995, their overstuffed catalogue can be a bit confounding.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Grails</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:41:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Wooden Shjips</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 May 2009 01:51:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Wooden Shjips</rhap:artist>
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<title>Parchman Farm</title>
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<category>Hard Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Formed in San Francisco in the early 2000s, but taking their cue from late
'60s and early '70s heavy rock groups (a la Blue Cheer and Leaf Hound),
Parchman Farm plays guitar-centric hard rock with elements of psychedelia
emerging in unexpected places. Any fan of the bluesier days of hard rock,
after all the annoying British blues crapola but before AOR was born, will
want to check them out. (Note: a member of this band is an employee of
RealNetworks.)
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 09:01:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Mammatus</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:59:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Mammatus</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Mammatus are a five-piece band from the out-skirts of Santa Cruz, Calif. Formed in 2005, they play absotastically face-melting, amp-blowing, fret-shredding stoner rock. When they sing, which isn't often because they have a lot of rocking to dispense with, their subjects include slaying dragons and other magical ephemera. What's not to like?
- Garrett Kamps]]></description>
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<title>Dark Meat</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:16:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Entrance</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:30:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Earthless</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:08:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sunny San Diego's Earthless are a heavy-sounding power trio specializing in seemingly endless jams of psychedelic space rock that wind up, unravel and propel sonic waves of acid-rock blasts into the cosmos. Guitar player Isaiah Mitchell used to play for Nebula, Drunk Horse and a diverse amalgam of many other West Coast bands. Bassist Mike Eginton cut his teeth with Man's Ruin recording artists Electric Nazarene, and ham-fisted drum lord Mario Rubalcaba hit skins with various bands such as the Black Heart Procession, Rocket from the Crypt, Clikatat Ikatowi and Hot Snakes (to name a few). Eginton and Rubalcaba own and operate their own record store in San Diego named Thirsty Moon, specializing in obscure and hard-to-find vinyl rooted in '60s garage rock, Krautrock, folk, prog and heavy Japanese psychedelic bands. The three musicians actually formed after bonding on Japanese hard-rock records by artists such as Flower Travelin' Band and heavy '60s and '70s rock bands such as the Groundhogs and Hawkwind. Earthless' live shows are often one long face-melting song, but they have been known to break up their set into two or sometimes three long songs.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Pontiak</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:47:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Plastic Crimewave Sound</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:06:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Skullflower</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:17:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Psychedelic Noise Rock from England with an emphasis on improvisation. Swirling droneouts dripping in reverb, cacophonous deconstruction and reconstruction, harsh aggression, subtle interplay and hard grooves.
- Doug Russell]]></description>
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