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When you think about Michigan you don’t really associate it with garage/psychedelic rock. Our brains immediately go straight to motown. In past years that has …

On Dungen’s seventh album, ‘Allas Sak’, multi-instrumentalist and brain-behind-the-music Gustav Ejstes claims that he wants his listeners to “create their own stories around the music”. …

Fair warning: Sonic Praise ideally is listened to on drives on late summer nights, when it’s too hot to think and too late to care. …

Conspicuously swinging his arms and swiveling his head back and forth, a young man seemingly ripped from the Haight-Ashbury heyday strolls past a “No Skateboarding” …

Label: Bureau B Release date: 2015-01-23 I was mildy hyped by the brief promo for this album as it stated this one was a cross …

Having witnessed Pond play one of the most bombastic shows you could hope for back in their breakout year of 2012 (I remember managing to …

Pinkshinyultrablast has been compared to 1990s British shoegazing groups, such as Slowdive and Ride. Five years after the release of “Happy Songs for Happy Zombies,” …

Rating: B On his 2012 self-titled album, his first for Sub Pop, Kyle Thomas (a.k.a. King Tuff) became a hero at writing gooey garage punk …

Rating: 7.3 “All great pop music,” Brian Eno once said, “is created by small groups of people misunderstanding other small groups far away.” The Swedish …

Rating: 5.8 “For the moon never beams/ Without bringing me dreams,” goes one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous works, the poem “Annabel Lee”. It’s …