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Joy Announce West Coast Tour Dates with Pharlee
San Diego classic heavy rockers Joy have announced a run up the West Coast to herald the coming of their second record for Tee Pee (third overall), Ride Along, which is due out April 29 as the...
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Earthless and Harsh Toke to Release Acid Crusher / Mount Swan Split LP in May
Alright, Earthless. Alright, Harsh Toke. Whatever you guys want. You want to pair up for a split LP out May 27 on Tee Pee? Fine. Just take my money. It’s yours. 35 minutes of unparalleled heavy psych...
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Desert Suns Premiere New Single “The Haunting”
San Diego four-piece Desert Suns will release their new single, The Haunting, on March 30 via Ripple Music. If you want to be technical about it — and I know you do — it’s the first new music to come...
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Red Wizard, Cosmosis: Universal Symptoms (Plus Full Album Stream)
[Click play above to stream Red Wizard’s Cosmosis in full. Album is out April 8 on Ripple Music and STB Records.] San Diego heavy rockers Red Wizard make their full-length debut with Cosmosis,...
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Joy, Ride Along: Been Set Free (Plus Full Album Stream)
[Click play above to stream Joy’s Ride Along in full. Album is out this Friday, April 29, on Tee Pee Records.] San Diego trio Joy made their debut on Tee Pee Records in 2014 with their second album...
View ArticleFriday Full-Length: Earthless, Live at Roadburn
Earthless, Live at Roadburn (2008) Among the hallowed ranks of performances at the Netherlands-based festival, there are few that have earned the legendary status of that which would become Earthless‘...
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Earthless & Harsh Toke, Acid Crusher / Mount Swan: Acidic Compounds
Whoever first had the idea to pair up Earthless and Harsh Toke for a split full-length, he or she was correct. Hardly the deepest critical insight I’ve ever had, but there it is. The San Diego...
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Quarterly Review: Spiritual Beggars, Øresund Space Collective, Goya, Black...
Day Two of The Obelisk’s Summer 2016 Quarterly Review — that’s an awful lot of capital letters. I’m not sure if it’s quite such a formal occasion, but perhaps that’s just an effect of staring at some...
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Goblin Cock to Release Necronomidonkeykongimicon Sept. 2
Fuck yes. You should know that I’m not putting this post together at work, and that’s because we’re talking about Goblin Cock. The intermittent doom rock project of Rob Crow (Pinback, scores of...
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Earthless Confirm US Tour Dates
Dates have been floating around the social medias for the last month or so, but the PR wire has now confirmed that San Diego heavy psych forerunners Earthless will head out on a round of headlining US...
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Goblin Cock, Necronomodonkeykongimicon: Misanthropic Conjurations
In 2015, Rob Crow quit music. In 2016, he’s put out two records, both with full bands. The first of them was You’re Doomed. Be Nice., which came out in March on Temporary Residence Ltd. under the...
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Joy European Tour with Black Wizard Starts Tonight
Tonight’s the night. Or at least it’s a night. One of 26 on the current European tour of San Diego heavy psych rockers Joy and Vancouver strutters Black Wizard, but it also happens to be the first one,...
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Radio Moscow Sign to Century Media
San Diego heavy rock forerunners Radio Moscow have inked a deal to release their next album on Century Media Records. The trio will enter the studio soon to record the follow-up to 2014’s Magical Dirt...
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The Second Coming of Heavy – Chapter Five out March 24
The beat rolls on, the bands play on, and Ripple Music‘s The Second Coming of Heavy – Chapter Five lands on March 24, bringing new tracks with it from Desert Suns and Chiefs. This latest installment of...
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Quarterly Review: Unearthly Trance, Heavy Traffic, Saturn, Lucifer’s Fall,...
From harsh doom to urban pastoralism to heavy blues rock to rolling doom nonetheless metallic in its defiance, Day Four of the Quarterly Review spins around a swath of styles and hopefully, hopefully,...
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Great Electric Quest Announce First Full US Tour; Chapter II Due Later this Year
It’s the first full tour of the US from San Diego four-piece Great Electric Quest, but I’m going to go on record right now and place my bet that it won’t be the last. The emergent heavy rockers have...
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Petyr Announce Self-Titled Debut out June 9
Being about as far removed from Southern California as one can be and still reside in the contiguous states, I forget sometimes about just how much skate culture and music intersect out that way, and...
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Harsh Toke, Joy & Sacri Monti Announce Burnout Split Due June 23
Want. It’s that simple. Want. If you needed further evidence of San Diego as the American epicenter of heavy psychedelic rock, or of Tee Pee Records‘ absolute on-it-ness when it comes to same — I don’t...
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Review & Full Album Stream: Petyr, Petyr
[Click play above to stream Petyr’s Petyr in full. Album is out this Friday, June 9, via Outer Battery Records with preorders up here.] While the band’s ties to the world of professional skateboarding...
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Review & Full Stream: Harsh Toke, Joy & Sacri Monti, Burnout Split LP
[Click play above to stream the Burnout three-way split between Harsh Toke, Joy and Sacri Monti. It’s out June 23 via Tee Pee Records.] Not to quibble on titles, but it’s way less Burnout than it is...
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