I have yet to see it on any official Record Store Day list for the US, but evidently Swedish psych rock band Goat and fellow Swedish hard rock band Graveyard have teamed together for a one-off collaborative 7" single on the UK release list from Rocket Recordings. Here's hoping some of those managed to trickle across the pond before the Trump Tariffs went into effect. Cross your fingers and look for the "A Ship of Fools / Light as a Feather" 7" on Saturday. In the meantime, check out the classic psych rock of the B-side "Light as a Feather" below.
Things get weird and noisy as Detroit trio Battle Elf push into the dark and cosmic aural ether on upcoming new album "10." A face and mind-melting mix of jazz, psychedelia, and krautrock, the band's sound feels like the beginning or end of a long, strange trip. Check out "Behind the Wilderness" below and pre-order the album here (download) or here (vinyl) from Birdman Records.
Holy moly, we've got new music from Stereolab heading our way next month, their first new album in 15 years. Hooray! Dig on the kosmische psych pop sounds of "Aerial Troubles" below and pre-order the "Instant Holograms on Metal Film" LP here from Warp.
Wu Lyf was a short-lived noisy indie rock band from Manchester who broke up right after the release of their 2011 full-length debut "Go Tell Fire to the Mountain." Over the last decade plus, front man Ellery James Roberts has made music with LUH (Lost Under Heaven) who broke up earlier this year. And now we've got a new Wu Lyf track, so i guess we're all still even. It's great. Check out "A New Life Is Coming" below and download it here from the band.
Right before the end of last year, 2024 fave Fat Dog released their excellent little earworm "Peace Song" which to some degree has been stuck in my head ever since. Yesterday they dropped a remix. Dig on "Peace Song (A Riot in Sydenham Bus Depot)(TowerBlock1 Mix)" below and order the soon to be released 12" single here from Domino.
A few weeks ago, i finished reading "A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin" by Greg Beets and Richard Whymark. The book is all about the punk and indie rock scene of Austin during the '90s through interviews with musicians, club owners, promoters, zine publishers, record store employees, local journos, and more. Being that i arrived in Austin during the second half of this scene, it was quite wonderful to read up on artists and venues i discovered then along with a whole lot i had forgotten about. A real nostalgia bomb for Central Texas Gen-Xers. Since i finished the book, i've been revisiting and rediscovering many of there artists mentioned and interviewed therein. And i'm going to be posting several of them over the next few days/weeks. One of those bands is 7% Solution, a psych-tinged alt-rock group that lasted through the end of the decade. Here's a track from one of their earlier 7" releases. Listen to "Halo" below, our Daily Jam.
I have amassed quite a large music collection over the last 40 years, starting with cassettes in the '80s as a kid, and then on to CD's as a teenager, and vinyl when i started college in the late '90s. It can get out of hand, so every so often i have to part ways with some of it, a purge to make space or put a little jingle in my pocket. There's no real method to picking what does or does not make the cut, but every now and then i end up re-purchasing something i never should have let go. Enter Pennsylvanian shoegaze band Highspire. I'm not sure when i sold off the band's 2003 "Your Everything" CD, but long enough ago to have completely forgotten about them. Until now. Until i find they've got a new EP out with next month's "Gloria." Thinking i'm going to have to re-add "Your Everything" back to the collection, maybe the 2021 vinyl reissue. Anyway, it's good to have them back. Listen to "Gloria" below and order the 7" here from Shelflife Records.
Here's some dreamy, shimmering pop from San Francisco band Pink Breath of Heaven from upcoming new album "Colors Make a Sound." Shoegazey alt-rock with psychedelic flourishes that plays like sugary sweet syrup to the ears. Listen to "Blue Is the Morning" below and pre-order the LP here from the band on Little Cloud Records.
For the last three weeks, i have had to coach my son's flag football team of 5th, 6th, and 7th graders. It's...difficult. Here's Beirut with "No Dice," our Daily Jam.
