Music Listen: Misty Lanes quintessential drop of fuzzy psych rock ‘Would You Believe’ by Happy Sydney’s own Misty Lanes takes a deep dive into the harmonies and fuzz of the 60s with ‘Would You Believe’ Eora’s vibrant 1960s rock revivalist project, Misty Lanes, is making…
Music Psych rockers Lunar Intruder explore the tracks that inspired ‘Outerworlds’ by Manning Patston Lunar Intruder melded psych, reggae, rock and dream pop on their debut EP, Outerworlds. These are the tracks that inspired the project. Lunar Intruder took us on an unbelievable sonic journey…
Music Psych rock and the apocalypse: Sunglass Moustache shatter all expectations on ‘Peaches’ by Emily Elvish Denial, control, legacy, reality, and peaches. Sunglass Moustache reach dystopian heights of nuance in their debut LP; melding an album, artistic backstory, and 35-minute music video into a harrowing parable about the misunderstood…
News PREMIERE: New Zealand psych rockers STARR deliver their mind-melting new single So High by Molly Lasker Auckland-based psych-rock trio STARR have today released the clip for their new single So High, and it’s a mind-melting masterpiece. The clip is a kaleidoscope of hallucinatory visuals, and the track itself delivers…
News PREMIERE: Greek psych rockers Chickn hatch something marvellous on new album WOWSERS! by Liz Campbell Acid glam virtuosos Chickn are back with their highly anticipated sophomore album, WOWSERS! Following an explosive debut, their latest blends West Coast good vibes with an explosion of proto-punk beats….
Music Introducing your next psych rock obsession, Gaspar Sanz by Bill Robinson For over a decade now, Perth has been a global hub for psychedelic music, producing bands like Tame Impala, Pond, Methyl Ethel, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, and many others. Sydney has…
Features News Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are Australia’s next massive psych rock act by Bill Robinson You may not realise it yet. But it’s true. Over the past decade, Perth has established itself as a hub for emerging psych music, housing such bands as Tame Impala,…
Music Did you know Cosmic Flanders is spelled the same backwards as it is forwards? Trip out to Sydney’s newest psych rockers by Molly Ulm As temperatures in Sydney reach sizzling heights, swelter into the universe of Cosmic Flanders. The four-piece from “cloey” and “newie” debuted a self-titled EP late last year that deserves hella…
News PREMIERE: Want great psych rock without travelling to Perth? Light up with Mamajae, the Sydney collective keeping the East Coast flame burning by Freya McGahey Recorded in a week at Palm Grove Studios on Sydney’s Northern Beaches with the help of recording master Dan Frizza and the trusty Dan Willington, Mamajae are back with a…
News PREMIERE: Screw populist appeal, Spaceman are proving you don’t need colourful, trippy visuals to accompany psych rock in their new video It’s True I Think About You by Susie Garrard Music runs along many of the same lines as politics, but with much better outfits. Just as the traditional political values live through decades of representatives evolving around central themes,…
Music Keeping the Aussie psych rock flame burnin’ with their classic riffs and mind dispelling tones. Get some Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. by Brendan Pettit-Young Hailing from Perth, the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are one of a long list of bands that belong to the modern Australian trend of psych-riddled rock music. Entrancing, mind altering, and…
Magazine Getting inside the mind of the visual genius behind some of Australia’s best psych rock bands, Jason Galea by Nick Stillman “Being asked to make the artwork for the two Australian Nuggets releases in 2012 was a big shock to me. I’d just finished the first Gizzard album cover and was…
Music Has your brain melted into a puddle from too much psych rock? You can thank Buried Feather by Sam Dawes Live music is a commodity that is squandered daily by the man and his government. All too common and ever-augmenting nanny state laws are rising in the consciousness of discerning…
