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<title>Sigur Ros</title>
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<category>Post-Rock</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Sigur Ros may not realize they're the kings of post-Shoegazer (sorry, Mogwai), but perhaps that's a good thing. This Icelandic outfit creates interplanetary soundscapes that make Slowdive sound like Motorhead. Moaning guitars weep and howl over textured, ether-soaked guitar effects as an androgynous singer coos and croons wistful melodies of pure soul. Sigur Ros create the kind of transcendental music for those who appreciate aural escapism and white noise. Their songs somehow sound and feel like coming down softly upon endless Arctic sheets -- you clear off some snow from the surface to discover blue lights shining from beneath the ice. If ghosts get to listen to music, don't think for a second that they subscribe to the gloomy Goth ethic. It would make sense if Sigur Ros topped the music charts for afterlife listeners.
- ESHEA]]></description>
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<title>The Verve</title>
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<category>Brit Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 04:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Arriving in 1991 amidst a smattering of English bands with monosyllabic names and breathy-voiced, indie/dance crossover potential, Verve's "All in the Mind" was starry-eyed rock 'n' roll for the rave and shoegazing generation. Amidst a haze of heavenly metaphors, headphone-splitting singles and a debut record smothered in half-lidded narcosis, Verve's strong points were immediately apparent: hours spent practicing in smoky warehouses had outfitted the band with a rhythm section that rumbled along like a medicated steam engine, making for live performances that were nothing short of blistering. Although born-to-be-a-frontman Richard Ashcroft was prone to taking the stage in full shamanic poses, there was no doubting the sincerity of this band. If a barefoot Ashcroft cried out, "I wanna know and I wanna feel" with arms outstretched while fronting a sea of slow, muted thunderclaps topped by Nick McCabe's lilting guitar cries, you wanted to know and feel as well. Never achieving much success until the release of <I>Urban Hymns</I> (1997), newly christened the Verve consistently toured the U.S to a small yet furiously loyal cult audience, performing shows that were huge, rock-from-outer-space events packed into tiny clubs. Tensions grew along with their success, culminating in the official split of the band early in 1999. Ashcroft launched a solo career and other members worked in various projects including guitarist Simon Tong's contributions with the Good, the Bad & the Queen. In June 2007, however, the band announced a reunion tour, which would lead to their first album in over a decade, 2008's <i>Forth</i>.
- JPRUETT]]></description>
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<title>Mogwai</title>
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<category>Post-Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 9 May 2013 07:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mogwai's fleshed-out spacey guitar arrangements are a blissful drone that always stops short of meandering. Their creative, multilayered guitar noodling often takes precedence over Stuart Braithwaite's sparse vocals. Formed in 1996, the band proceeded to release a number of largely ignored independent singles, until the release of "Angels vs. Aliens," which became a U.K. Indie Top-10 single. The band began to amass critical acclaim with the release of <i>Mogwai Young Team</i> in 1997 and solidified their place in the alt rock world with the hugely successful <i>Kicking A Dead Pig</i> in 1998.
- MCLOWARD]]></description>
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<title>Spiritualized</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 19:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Following the demise of Spacemen 3, Jason Pierce went to work and almost immediately put together Spiritualized (an always changing ensemble that blend dream pop with rock 'n' roll). Since 1992's <i>Lazer Guided Melodies</i>, Pierce has tripped up his music with grand, sweeping orchestral arrangements, droning vintage music gear from the '60s, cascading walls of swelling gospel harmonies, and songs about lost love and chemical dependency.]]></description>
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<title>Secret Machines</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 17:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Graduates from the University of Audio Alchemy, the Secret Machines create music that's just as mechanical as it's organic. Intricately arranged symphonies of distorted analog sounds soar upward alongside digital accoutrements before being blown apart by what sounds like fireworks. The Machines channel a myriad of influences, blending Pink Floyd's early space rock romanticism with Neu's static-happy electro drones, and Spiritualized's post-shoegazer tremolos with My Bloody Valentine's warbling walls of guitar effects. Singer Ben Curtis has a Flaming-Lips-by-way-of-Neil-Young style on some songs but seems most at home when accompanied by two-part vocal harmonies. Their music flirts heavily with various psychedelic styles, but you don't need to take mind-bending drugs to enjoy it.
- ESHEA]]></description>
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<title>Young Galaxy</title>
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<category>Dream Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 13:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Young Galaxy's story isn't exactly the stuff of constellation myths, but it
is romantic in more than one sense of the word. First, the story of the
band, which consists of Catherine McCandless and her boyfriend, Stephen
Ramsay, is the story of a couple who met, fell in love and formed a band
together to jointly pursue their musical dreams. Second, the story takes
place in a couple of cities that are positively overrun with moony artistic
types. McCandless and Ramsay met in Vancouver, where years ago they began
working on material that would become Young Galaxy's. But before their own
project came to be, the couple moved to Montreal, where Ramsay took what
ended up being quite a long gig as a touring guitarist for another
cosmically named outfit, Stars. After he left amicably to focus on his work
with McCandless, Young Galaxy was snapped up by Arts & Crafts, a Canadian
label that's home to a stable of more dreamers, such as Broken Social Scene
and Feist. The band released an EP, formed a live band and took off on tour
with label-mates The Dears. In 2007, Arts & Crafts released Young Galaxy's
eponymous full-length debut.
- RDEVITT]]></description>
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<title>Richard Ashcroft</title>
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<category>Brit Rock</category>
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<description><![CDATA[When you have an ego as large as Richard Ashcroft's, it's impossible not to put out solo material. Not that his ego is a bad thing, mind you. The ex-frontman for Wigan, England's the Verve has always been somewhat of a visionary. He once told a journalist that when he was eleven years old and the other kids were playing with action figures, he was more concerned with contemplating life and death. Ashcroft's lyrics dive headfirst into the spiritual and the subconscious -- it is refreshing that he is not afraid to expose the raw nerves of unconditional love and relationships between people. This is what has always put him light years ahead of Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown, Damon Albarn or any of his so-called contemporaries. With the release of his first solo album <i>Alone With Everybody</i>, Ashcroft unleashes musical spirituality by injecting something usually not present in most commercial music: human soul and musical numinousness. With sweeping, swirling love songs such as "You On My Mind In My Sleep," Ashcroft forgoes the ego and exposes his heart in the company of otherworldly guitar drones, string accompaniment and weeping pedal steel notes. It is here the listener realizes that this man's forte is the love song. Even on the more up-tempo (and Pro Tools-laden) hits such as "Come On People (We're Making It Now)" and "I Get My Beat," we find Ashcroft confident and triumphant in his amorous temper. His songs reveal a young man who is completely enamored with the shortness of life and the time we have to live it.
- ESHEA]]></description>
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<title>Stars of the Lid</title>
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<category>Experimental</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 02:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hazy, ethereal music from guitarists Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie. The duo create a variety of pulsating swells and haunting drones, sonically manipulating volume surges, tape loops and samples. Their first album <i>Music for Nitrous Oxide</i> was aptly named: organically developed songs with subtle rhythms gently massage the unfeeling inner parts of your brain. More recently they have collaborated with groups like Labradford on remixes, and created boundary-breaking multimedia work with painter Jon McCafferty. You don't have to listen closely to each part of each song to appreciate Stars of the Lid; listening is a total experience, with complete compositions coursing through shifting minimalist experiments.
- JTERRY]]></description>
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<title>Silver Apples</title>
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<category>Experimental</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 6 May 2013 22:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Silver Apples were a duo based in New York who debuted a world of electronic drones, blips and possible alien origins to an uninterested public in '68. The band was characterized by their analog heavy sound (courtesy of Simeon Coxe's homemade, self-named synthesizer) which was made even heavier by the inclusion of more oscillating rhythms than you could shake a Thai stick at. Consisting of Danny Taylor and Coxe, the duo has become one of the many artists whose music fell on deaf ears at the time, only to become enormously influential to an ever-increasing group of sonic experimentalists. Luckily, the band has been able to reap the benefits of this by recording new material and becoming the subject of tribute records as well as reissues.
- JPRUETT]]></description>
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<title>Farflung</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 22:06:47 +0000</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.
- MMCGUIRK]]></description>
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<title>Mothership</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Dallas power trio Mothership, with brothers Kyle and Kelley Juett on bass and guitar, mix Southern hard rock with trad metal.]]></description>
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<title>Earth</title>
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<category>Doom Metal</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Eschewing the guitar-based approach to Space Rock of Hawkwind, Helios Creed, etc., Earth rely on digital loops, vocal harmonics, and nature samples to create lush, biorhythmic movements in sound. Capable of blowing the "doors of perception" off their hinges, this music may change how you hear the world around you.
- CDRISCOLL]]></description>
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<title>Wooden Shjips</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Boredoms</title>
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<category>Japanese Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 9 May 2013 13:10:00 +0000</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.
- MKATE]]></description>
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<title>Bowery Electric</title>
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<category>Dream Pop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 14:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bowery Electric emerged on the Kranky label in the mid-1990s. Alongside bands like Jessamine and Labradford, Bowery Electric's early sound gelled with Kranky's droning aesthetic. Working in the confines of organic music, the band laid down a heavy drum beat, topped by waves of feedback and monotone, blissed-out vocals. Not until the release of <I>Beat</I> in 1996 did the band begin to develop fully. Utilizing a love of electronic music and hip-hop beats, the band crafted their most elaborate complex music. Swirling, hypnotic beats under an equally dizzying array of samples, sequences and the most beautiful guitar noise heard since Kevin Shields last plugged in his Fender Jazzmaster. A series of remix EPs and one remix LP followed which further established the band's increasing taste for experimentation. The band released a stunning single entitled "Blow Up" in '97 which managed to combine dreamy, Satie-inspired piano with low-key Drum 'N' Bass. The band intend to release their fourth full length later this year entitled <I>Lushlife</I> which, if the title track and the newer "Freedom Fighter" single are any indication, should continue the band's head-spinning trajectory.
- JPRUETT]]></description>
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<title>Dead Meadow</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 21:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Steve Hillage</title>
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<category>Art &amp; Progressive Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 8 May 2013 16:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Bardo Pond</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 9 May 2013 03:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia-bred noise terrorists indulge in heavy, sprawling, head-nodding drones. Chords bend and wrap around your head like hallucinogenic blindfolds, while vocals exist only as a guide to the melody, often sounding backwards. But far from being Space Rock without the usual accompanying ethereality, Bardo Pond rely heavily upon improvised, distorted drones and blues chords. Hypnotically rolling drums are the only constant as guitars search out different sounds. Isobel Sollenberger&#8217;s flute pipes in and out, acting as a grounding instrument while reminding you about what planet on which you live. The end result is an experiment in massive guitar texture.
- JPRUETT]]></description>
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<title>Spacemen 3</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There's no confusing what a band's tripped-out goals are when they have album titles like <i>Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To</i>. Need they be any more honest in their intentions? Spacemen 3's ultra-sleepy-eyed, quaalude-ridden, narcotic guitar drones are the equivalent of aural acid: hallucinatory trips guided by an endlessly buzzing, fuzzy guitar as it sounds when heard in a smoky, alcohol-drenched world. It's easy to get lost in these infinitely spatial, far-reaching guitar soundscapes.
- RLEAVER]]></description>
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<title>Bark Psychosis</title>
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<category>Post-Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Feb 2012 21:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Comets On Fire</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 9 May 2013 05:17:07 +0000</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.
- MMCGUIRK]]></description>
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<title>Charalambides</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 21:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Smoky female vocals lilt over an earthy, spacious acoustic guitar backing that suggest drones rather than changing chord progressions. A pleasant (if a bit spooky), sparse and psychedelically haunting duo.
- JTERRY]]></description>
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<title>Loop</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 08:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Emerging from the garage for a few years in the '80s bleary-eyed and holding guitars set on reverb, Loop's mad, droning rock stretched infinitely out into space. Buzzing waves emit from guitars that echo outward in hypnotic ripples, splashing around in feedback and leaving a grainy trail of throbbing, dissonant noise. Their all-encompassing cosmic rock seems to swallow almost everything it encounters, including founding member Robert Hampson's vocals, which are less a distinct addition to the music than the noisy mortar that acts to solidify their ever-expanding wall of sound.
- KHOLLOWAY]]></description>
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<title>Roy Montgomery</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 6 May 2013 13:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hailing from Christchurch, New Zealand, guitarist Roy Montgomery has become something of a legend in experimental pop and avant-garde circles. Past projects include seminal Post-Punk band the Pin Group (their first single was the first release on the now acclaimed Flying Nun label), Dadamah and Dissolve, as well as collaborations with Flying Saucer Attack and Bardo Pond. Like New Zealand brethren Michael Morley and Dean Roberts, his guitar style is instantly recognizable. While rich, colorful and melodic, Montgomery's chiming sound hides a subtle darkness -- a sort of tortured longing numbed by a polite smile and a soothing drone. Stunning work that manages to be simultaneously sprawling and intimate.
- DRUSSELL]]></description>
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<title>Labradford</title>
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<category>Post-Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 3 May 2013 16:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Kinski</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 08:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Elevator</title>
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<category>Lo-Fi</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 03:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Remnants of Eric's Trip get together to craft hallucinogenic sound collages of grungy guitars and bong-blasted ruminations. Imagine crossing the crude succinctness of early Sebadoh with the feedback fetishism of the Melvins. This may be the wildest journey a person can make without leaving the living room couch.
- CDRISCOLL]]></description>
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<title>Robedoor</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 5 May 2013 10:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Hair and Skin Trading Company</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The less distinguished of the two groups to arise from late-1980s drone rockers Loop (the other being the more ambient/experimental Main), this three-piece did at least have the more interesting name. They pushed at the confines of the basic rock band format with their repetitive bass/guitar figures and minimalist drum patterns. They sometimes abandoned them completely, instead creating spaced-out drones built on layers of feedback and otherwise effects-laden guitars.
- WYORK]]></description>
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<title>Sonic Boom</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 12:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Spacemen 3 acrimoniously fell apart in 1991, Jason Pierce formed Spiritualized and Sonic Boom (Pete Kember) eventually formed Spectrum. As with his former band, Sonic Boom's solo offerings are blissed-out, heavy-lidded affairs that hypnotize with mesmerizing guitar drone. Swirling guitar tones clash in unison with overamped distortion and atonal textures to create the sprawling, infinite sound that has become Sonic Boom's calling card. In 1994, Sonic Boom spearheaded the Experimental Audio Research project with like-minded musicians into guitar-based explorations (such as My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields), and he continues that project between solo outings.
- LRYAN]]></description>
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<title>After One</title>
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<category>Neo Psychedelic</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Innovative studio production and lush textures of instrumental Space Rock nod to the past. Fuzz-toned guitar leads dance around moody piano playing and mellow drumming from a fellow who knows that showing off would ruin everything (a rare quality). Imagine Roger Waters and the Verve's Richard Ashcroft drinking tea and eating space cakes.
- ESHEA]]></description>
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<title>SIANspheric</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 8 May 2013 10:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Recalling both the mind-bending guitar work of Spacemen 3 and the more cohesive concoctions of Swervedriver, SIANspheric make a fine new shaman in the discipline of Space Rock. The trick is coagulating these elusive, quicksilver-like riffs into something solid, and this band has the technique mastered. Sure, the random anticipatory bleeps and oscillations soar through a netherworld of NASA-sponsored feedback experiments as you'd expect, but holding it together are thick, detuned chord progressions and warped, looping drum beats. In other words, SIANspheric have songs. That they've escaped huge recognition is not only peculiar, but downright tragic.
- KBAUMAN]]></description>
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<title>Doldrums</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 3 Feb 2013 22:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Huge masses of delay-drenched guitars shift and moan, barely contained by driving beats and frantic electric guitar tinkering. Like listening to a cattle drive though cyberspace.
- DRUSSELL]]></description>
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<title>Calliope</title>
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<category>Post-Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 02:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There seems to be no shortage of dreamy instrumentalists these days and Michigan's Calliope fall successfully into that heap of vibraphones and locked rhythms. Calliope also manage to incorporate a deeper funk amidst their detailed orchestrations by involving heavy low-end basslines and turntables. Not that the band limit themselves to non-vocal music -- they cover all musical aspects while projecting a heavily dynamic sound into outer space. A long way from their roots in minor chord drones and feedback blasts, Calliope continue to expand their once-limited frontiers.
- JPRUETT]]></description>
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<title>Liquid Zen</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sumptuous ambient rock tunes that straddle the fence between '70s pop classicism and '90s experimentalism. Emotive male vocals that sound like Roger Waters crossed with David Sylvian give the tracks a tangible human element.
- MSCHULMAN]]></description>
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<title>Third Eye Foundation</title>
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<category>Leftfield/IDM</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 03:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If you're familiar with Flying Saucer Attack, you've heard Matt Elliot's capacity to generate oceans of cascading noise that attracts far more than it repels. His project Third Eye Foundation explores that sound further by taking discordant drones to piercing extremes that envelop the listener like a deep cradle, as if angels were screaming from the pains of hell. Lulling coos are easily confused with alarm siren stridor. His beat arrangements are complex and relentless, often forgoing the customary building up and tearing down of rhythmic structures. Instead, he drops mad, scattering beats into his thick textural fog without warning. His beats are concertedly harsh as they frantically snap like the bones of a human body trapped under a descending elevator. He often ventures into Jungle territory, but rhythms this scattered and urgent race for other states of total sonic immersion where a listener's pleasure and pain are not so far apart.
- MKATE]]></description>
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