Musical Mind Traveler

Melanie's Melody

2011-08-24T15:09:00.000-07:00

Bonus track from The Black Angels latest album "Phosphene Dream".
Great song. Smooth ride.

The Black Angels - Melanie's Melody

Who did it?

2011-08-16T23:20:00.000-07:00

Time for some sweet BJM and a classic rad video.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre -Who Fucking Pissed In My Well?

In the end

2011-08-15T14:54:00.000-07:00

Instead of living the dream I just live in my dreams
What will I do with myself in this place
Get out, get a job and make some new friends
Did I really think that I would be happy this way?

Surrealistic thoughts of realistic dreams
Psychedelic vision is reality for me
I want to go where I once have been
In the summer, in the winter, in time

Working until I'm mad
Nothing inside me, I'm sad
Pitchblack darkness and nothing to see
Payment is always in time
And as the money comes in hand
Karma hits creativity and in it's stand

I think you might be me

2011-08-14T14:41:00.000-07:00

Out at sea, for so long
Nothing to see, how long have I gone?
Fishes of teardrops, hours of songs
Splashing through corals of violence in blue
When will I see you?

We sat sail, years ago
Flowers and colors and microscope bees
Singing and dancing, mixing the sea
Eyes of dust, float in the air, is this the dens lair?
This just isnt fair (to them)

Stars beneith, heaven in sea
The captain follows only his scope
Land ho, over the horizon
I think we just got in the course of the sun
Let's make it more fun?

What!?

2011-08-03T03:53:00.000-07:00

This is crazy.. Just crazy..
The old man Seasick Steve plays with some serious legends on iTunes festival 2011.

Seasick Steve - Write Me A Few Lines (With Alison Mosshart, John Paul Jones & Jack White)

Booom! Sonic, that is!

2011-06-20T10:52:00.000-07:00

A little bit of Spectrum.

Spectrum - Lord I Don't Even Know My Name

Spectrum - "Lord I Don't Even Know My Name" from RockEdition on Vimeo.

Spectrum - Revolution (Spacemen 3)

It must be to do with Orange.

2011-06-20T06:35:00.000-07:00

The Orange Revival, a neo-psychedelic rockband from Sweden will soon be releasing their new album in vinyl. They just uploaded one of the songs from the upcomming album on their facebook page HERE.

In July the band will also go on a European tour. All the tourdates are available at their facebook page!

Rock n' roll dream

2011-06-19T02:45:00.000-07:00

That's pretty much what The Black Lips new album sounds like. Comparing to old records/songs this one is far more easier to litsen too. Maby they stopped using drugs and came to it... Or started using more. Who knows.
Anyhow, the album is called Arabia Mountain and contains 16 strong songs. The hit and also the single from the album is "Family Tree", a song that's got a really nice 60's surf sound.

The Black Lips - Family Tree

And also, while on the subject I suddenly remembered a video i saw from VBS.TV on The Black Lips doing an Indian tour. This is really worth seeing:

http://www.vbs.tv/en-se/watch/music-world/black-lips-in-india

Psychedelic

2011-06-18T08:03:00.001-07:00

Juan Trip, Really strange. Awfully groovy!

Juan Trip - Dirty Party

1958

2011-06-16T11:13:00.000-07:00

Straight from 1958, here's Link Wray - Rumble.
Insane guitarsound, great bass and smooth drums.
YES!

Link Wray - Rumble

Take me back in time

2011-06-15T01:36:00.000-07:00

Gordon Fights! A blues-rock band from Stockholm, Sweden that was formed in 2008. Now in 2011 they just released their first music video. The sound is alot like Swedish Graveyard but a bit softer. There's alot of power to it. I hope these guys will give out an album soon. The Single "Time Machine" can be bought at iTunes store or Amazon.
Enough talking. Let's rock!

Gordon Fights - Time Machine

And here's a little Graveyard just because it came to my mind..

Graveyard - Hisingen Blues

I want you

2011-06-14T02:25:00.001-07:00

The Entrance Band! New song.

The Entrance Band - I Want You

Out of sight

2011-06-13T03:17:00.000-07:00

This is a fantastic band. Spiritualized! Jason Pierce of the Spacemen 3 and one really big band behind him. Just insane..

Spiritualized - Out of Sight (Live @ Later With Jools)

14 minutes in unplugged heaven

2011-06-09T16:30:00.000-07:00

Uploaded eight hours ago. Sweet 14 minute video of The Black Angels, Once again unplugged.

Music died

2011-06-09T15:28:00.000-07:00

And from the ashes a really cool arcitecture project awoke..

This is Black Box Revelation (great name), An project made for a contest to build a caravan/stage/activity place on the Trailerpark Festival. Made from the arcitecture trio Re-Make Re-Model, based in Berlin. It's a place where the inside is the outside, and vice versa. A place where the night never get daylight, A place where the party never stops.

The inside meets the outside
And YES! they have Paul McCartney in playing bass on the inside (or outside)! How can they NOT win with that combo?

And the outside meets the inside

Vote for it here:

http://www.trailerparkfestival.com/?p=4900

By clicking on the "Like" button!

Peace

Straight up and down, Back from hell

2011-06-05T14:48:00.000-07:00

More music! The blog is alive!

Let's kickstart this shit with some groovy tunes!

Tame Impala - Desire Be Desire Go

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Clouds Are Lies

The Black Keys - Howlin' For Your

Rói Höttur - Imaginarium

2011-02-27T05:53:00.000-08:00

The Swedish band Rói Höttur are now out with their debut album! This is a good one!

FNORD has also written a fabulous review on the album. I'll just let them say what I would have said..

Free Download aswell!
Imaginarium by Rói Höttur

I got mine

2011-01-13T10:45:00.000-08:00

The Black Keys, A blues/rock-duo from Amarica. Dirty, mashy, crunchy sound of one guitar and one drumkit. A singer without glasses and a drummer with glasses.

The Black Keys - Live at Abbey Road

YEAH!

2011-01-09T12:00:00.000-08:00

Focus from the 70's Netherlands are playing in Trondheim the 28'th January. It's a HAVE TO even if there's only one original member left in the band.
Check this video out, it's a classic. Jan Akkerman at his best! This is fucking pure!

Focus - Hocus Pocus

The Soundtrack of Your Life

2011-01-08T06:50:00.001-08:00

There's a Swedish psych/rock-band called The Soundtrack of Our Lives. They are fantastic, and they are even more fantastic live. Imagine this video and song times ten. Groovy

TSOOL - Ego Delusion

YES

2011-01-05T10:47:00.001-08:00

The Black Angels - Science Killer

The perfect one for me

2010-12-30T22:01:00.000-08:00

UNKLE with The Black Angels - Natural Selection

Merry Happy! Merry Psychmas!

2010-12-24T04:15:00.000-08:00

I HAVE THE POWER!

2010-12-20T13:34:00.001-08:00

Yes! The Masters of the Universe!

The Sailing Ship

2010-12-12T12:32:00.000-08:00

Original to the cover made pretty famous by The Brian Jonestown Massacre as "Sailor". Pretty fucking good.

The Cryan Shames - The Sailing Ship

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Sailor (Live @ Hove)

This right in:

2010-12-07T06:59:00.000-08:00

The Black Angels interview in two parts:

Part 1

Part 2

WHAT THE WHAT? WHAT? THIS IS AWESOME!

2010-12-02T16:06:00.000-08:00

Tame Impala has obviously done it again.... Made a really amazing music video for a great song. Forget about HFGW, forget about Lucidity, forget about Solitude is Bliss.... THIS is the coolest music video I've seen in I don't know how long. Kaleidoscope 360° videoshoots. And the best part is that they made this film while having a day off in Paris, France on their European tour. One day, one idea, one band, some flares.. And that weather? Those trees? WOW!
Enjoy:

Tame Impala - Expectations

Rancho Relaxo & Whatever Hippie Bitch

2010-12-02T11:01:00.000-08:00

Here's a sweet tune from a sweet neo-psychedelic band called Rancho Relaxo, featuring Whatever Hippie Bitch.

Rancho Relaxo & Whatever Hippie Bitch - Tilla Underground
Tilla Underground by Rancho Relaxo

Rock And Roll Circus

2010-12-02T07:28:00.000-08:00

Supergroup: The Dirty Mac.
I say no more..

The Dirty Mac - Yer Blues

Life in Eternity

2010-12-01T10:58:00.000-08:00

bleeding eyes of black patterns
hold your hands upon yourself
feel your way through space
come on over to the dark side
where theres no difference between opened or closed
I have the black acid mind
pouring all over you

water splashing to your face as you wash up in the bathroom, trying to get sane
the man in the mirror laughs at you and smiles
after starring into your eyes for a while he move his lips when yours are still and say
"be prepared, one day I will be you"

he stands up straight, takes one last look and then turn around
not knowing what you just saw when that man, who looked just like you, but didnt do anything like you walked out of the room
you suddenly remember that nothing is sane and everything is insane

close your eyes
concentrate on darkness
put your hands over your eyes
open them inside and ride through the night

Redeemer

2010-11-29T06:24:00.000-08:00

LA psychedelic/folk/destert/rock artist Imaad Wasif is a man of pure psych-rock feeling. He does his thing and let nothing come in his way. With the sound of witchcraft and black magic in flavor he creates a brilliant sound that lands somewhere between The Entrance Band and Goldden Animals. In 2008 he released his first album together with a band called Two Part Beast called "Strange Hexes", In 2009 he released the second album "The Voidist", this time only with the name Imaad Wasif. Here's a little earcandy for you:

Imaad Wasif - Redeemer

Imaad Wasif with Two Part Beast - Razorlike

Wonderland-Friday, Highlands of Music-Saturday, Yesterdays Weekend

2010-11-28T13:59:00.000-08:00

guided tours by the voice of the man in the mirror
he is neither me nor you
loosing touch with your breath, you cant feel your body
eating yourself over and over
colors in the darkness, pieces of awareness
falling in place one by one
the only thing left is the music within me
as the voice falls down in the deep black sea
now i can feel it, now i can see it
the power of love
the power of mind

Hmm. what is this? A video for the Jimi Hendrix song Valleys of Neptu.... HOLY FUCK!

2010-11-25T13:15:00.000-08:00

In March, 9 this year a new Jimi Hendrix album was released. With 12 remastered previously unreleased songs. The name of the album is "Valleys of Neptune", same name as the hit song of the album. I've heard the song and the whole album and yeah, sure, It's alright. But I haven't seen the video to the song before.. I just have to say hold on guys, this is one hell of a trip....

Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune

AAAAAAhhhhhhhhHHWHhwrhaHRAWELSDÖawerkfnöawe

2010-11-24T12:25:00.000-08:00

“All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?”
-Ozzy Osbourne

Black Sabbath - War Pigs

Yellow Submarine in 3D!

2010-11-23T12:18:00.000-08:00

In 1968 The Beatles made a cartoon movie called "Yellow Submarine", It shows us their journey to Pepperland. Through places like "the foothills of the headland" and "the sea of time" you follow them on their way of saving Pepperland from the blue meanies with singing like Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heartsclub Band in the good old days of, Yes, Pepperland.
Now however the movie is being recreated in 3D and is going to be released in 2013. Read more here.

Clips from the original 1968 movie:

The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

The Sea of Holes

Alice in in time, Alice in your mind

2010-11-23T12:04:00.000-08:00

It's not that strange that Grace Slick got stuck in the 1951 Alice in Wonderland..
It's genious

Alice in Wonderland - In a world of my own

Wouldn't it be boring if the northern lights were black and white?

2010-11-21T11:14:00.000-08:00

Perpetual moonshine
And glowing treetops
Northern lights dancing in the stars
Diffuse smoke hangin' from beneith
Pouring up through the cold air
Like a waterfall from the other side of the world

Footsteps in the newly fallen snow
Show's where I am, points where I should be
The glow from my cigarette sparkles in my eye
Streams of light
Hits the winternight
Cold cheeks blooming of red
Dry lips calling for you across the sky
Fading into the turquoise nightsky
Alongside the smoke from my lounges

Where are you?
When will you get here?
When will you come?
Wouldn't it be boring if the northern lights were black and white?

Golden Animals

2010-11-21T10:19:00.000-08:00

Golden Animals is a band with the western desert, folk, psychedelic, blues drepression sound. They first released a selftitled four track-Singel/EP in 2007, in 2008 they released their debut album called "Free Your Mind and Win a Pony" with the hit "The Steady Roller". I would really love to see these guys..
The band is made of Tommy (Vocals and guitar) and Linda (Drums and backup vocals), who one night met in a street in Brooklyn. For three years they went around the west US in a van and crashed and played in abandoned houses. Although somehow they managed to do a UK and US tour...
Let's just hope that soon they will get a world tour and get's the fame they deserve..

Golden Animals - Hi/Lo

Golden Animals - Queen Mary

Turn off your mind, Relax and Float downstream

2010-11-20T17:02:00.000-08:00

The Beatles producer George Martin and his son remastered some Beatles songs and mixed them together in different ways. It became the album called "Love" and was released in 2006. All the songs in the album is put together so that it works as one long track, more or less. Giving you an amazing trip through The Bealtes gold-sound from Abbey Road.
Here's a trippy and awesome video for one of the tracks which is "Within you without you" mixed together with "Tomorrow never knows".

The Beatles - Within You Without You

Quest For Fire

2010-11-20T08:54:00.000-08:00

Quest For Fire is a band who started off with a selftitled album in 2009 which was great. They've got the dark and more underground sound of the psychedelic rock. In August 2010 they released a second album called "Lights From Paradise" with more attitude and more darkness than the first album. Starting with somewhat of a hit called "The Greatest Hits By God", and it really is, the whole album is the greatest hits by god. That is, if Jimi Hendrix were god. The last song on the album is a long one, a journey through time. It's called "Sessions of Light" and it is 9:23 long. Which I think is great, I love long psychedelic songs.
If you dig BRMC, The Entrance Band, Imaad Wasif or just a bit heavier psychedelic rock that puts you into trance, Check it out on Spotify.

Quest For Fire - I've Been Trying To Leave

Creativity

2010-11-20T05:39:00.000-08:00

Let's look at some funny and trippy stuff to do when you really have nothing to do.

Look at spacekittens (Click on the picture)

Play with a kaleidoscope that isn't there.

Paint fucked up universe pictures in Flame Painter

Laugh at this Simon and Garfunkel-gif because you own the album but never saw it in this way.

Roky & his Black Angels

2010-11-19T03:39:00.000-08:00

As all of you know Roky Erickson is a huge legend in the psychedelic music history. Once upon a time he was the lead singer of The 13th Floor Elevators and took acid every day for a entire year. Then also, in 1968 he was declared with schizophrenia and 1969 he got busted for having one (1 !!!!!!) joint of Marijuana on him. He got 10 years of prison but Roky then said he was insane and it wasn't his fault. So instead he ended up in the hospital for people who are mentally sick.
Anyhow now this god of drugs, thoughts and psychedelics is back playing with The Black Angels and together they are now releasing a DVD from a 2008 performance together called "Night of the Vampire". I'm sure it will be amazing. Really psyched to get to see it!!
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out you fucking pushers.

Roky Erickson & The Black Angels - You're Gonna Miss Me

Hunter S Thompson once said:

2010-11-17T07:07:00.000-08:00

"There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die."
—Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s, 1988

Aliens made out of water

2010-11-15T09:58:00.000-08:00

This dude is so fucking far out he's not even standing on the ground, he's more likely to float around, hoovering over the ground instead of walking on it. This dude is made out of 72% water and 28% grass. And he's favorite website is probably hempclothing.com.

You're stoned out of your mind man.

2010-11-15T09:41:00.000-08:00

"They've been commin' here ever since 1946"

Eeasy Rider 1969

When the white rabbit peaks, would you be so kind as to throw this tape recorder into the bathtub with me?

2010-11-14T08:00:00.000-08:00

Wonderwall

2010-11-13T04:28:00.000-08:00

So George Harrison made the soundtrack to a great psychedelic film called "Wonderwall" in the 60's. Here's a clip from the film. Hold on tight, so you won't fly out in space.

Acid brainfuck

2010-11-12T08:37:00.000-08:00

Smokin shit

2010-11-11T02:55:00.000-08:00

http://theperiferia.tumblr.com/

I really need it! More! More! MORE!!!

2010-11-10T01:13:00.000-08:00

There is a Swedish band called Rói Höttur. Here's a new video for the song "Yes! I Need It"

Rói Höttur - Yes! I Need It

OH MY GOD LOOK AT THOSE DRAGONS!

2010-11-09T07:36:00.000-08:00

Hahaha! Is this the new "californication" ?

It's the Beatles!!!! No... Wait.. What?

2010-11-09T05:23:00.000-08:00

Three smoother versions of Bad Vibrations, Haunting at 1300 McKinley and Telephone has come up on youtube. The Black Angels are doin what The Beatles did all over again, and I love it!

The Black Angels - Bad Vibrations

The Beatles - Get Back

Pursuit of happiness

2010-11-07T11:16:00.000-08:00

Sweet cover of Kid Kudi/MGMT/Ratatat's song Pursuit of Happiness. Insane bassist/drummer..

Lissie - Pursuit of Happiness

Raped my brain

2010-10-18T14:17:00.000-07:00

This song is great, never heard of the band or album before but that doesn't matter. Fly

Spaceship Landing - Erics Mom (Part 1)

Spaceship Landing - Erics Mom (Part 2)

Wraooorwraorwoaw!!

2010-10-06T14:01:00.000-07:00

Finished product of Tame Impala's new musicvideo! How epic is that fucking eagle!? WHAT!?!

Tame Impala - Lucidity

And by the way, Dungen's new album Skit i Allt is out on spotify!

Orange!

2010-10-03T06:47:00.000-07:00

Blow my mind to awareness right now!!

2010-09-30T17:15:00.000-07:00

Spectrum & Sonic Boom, do I even have to say anything more?.. It's so good it makes me sick of greatness..

Spectrum - How You Satisfy Me

Darian Parker

2010-09-30T14:34:00.000-07:00

20 year old Darian Parker from Atlanta have got some serious drawing skills. Trip into these ones if you like!

Sure hope this guy gets the attention he should..

Losing Touch With My Mind

2010-09-30T02:28:00.000-07:00

We all know that Spacemen 3 did some seriously great things in music, but these fellas really know how to make a tribute to them by doing one of the best covers there is. It also is the best song that The Asteroid No. 4 has done. They're on spotify as well.

No drugs needed.

The Asteroid #4 - Losing Touch With My Mind

Run through the woods, go go robin hood!

2010-09-29T05:32:00.000-07:00

Rói Höttur is a Psychedelic/blues/drone/rock band from Undersåker, a small village in the northern Sweden.
I just show you this video because it's genious:

Rói Höttur - Save Me Pt. 1

He's got the blues

2010-09-28T09:28:00.000-07:00

Until this day I've always thought that the song Zigenarliv Dreamin Pt. 1 on Håkan Hellström's single "För en lång lång tid" was the same as the Zigenarliv Dreamin on the "För sent för Edelweiss"-album. Obviously, it's not the same song, this version is more dirty. And it's got more of a blues feeling, even though both versions are blues tracks.
Håkan Hellström is a big Swedish pop/rock artist who's hot his roots in the blues rock. I've always digged him, and he is one of the best live artists I've ever seen.
However, here's the song, and it's great:

Håkan Hellström - Zigenarliv Dreamin Pt. 1

Oh btw. Tame Impala will launch YOU into space..

2010-09-27T04:50:00.000-07:00

Here's a heads up for the new Tame Impala single "Lucidity". Tonight they posted this "behind the scenes" clip for their new musis video, It will be crazy.. A mindblowing ride to the atmosphere, a freefall to the ground and won't you just look at that eagle....

Tame Impala - Lucidity (Behind the Scenes)

Choose to choose, Choose to go

2010-09-27T04:14:00.000-07:00

This is what I expected from the new album. This is insanity. This is so beautiful.

The Black Angels - You on the Run (Live @ Canal Plus France)

The Black Angels - Deer-Ree-She (Live @ Canal Plus France)

Psychedelic music is music that expands your awareness and conciousness

2010-09-27T03:38:00.000-07:00

Psilocybin Love

2010-09-26T05:52:00.000-07:00

Crazy Psychedelic Music From Sweden

2010-09-25T07:54:00.000-07:00

Samling (Gather) is a new underground psychedelic/folk/progg band from Stockholm, they've played three gigs this year. Although these gigs haven't been the normal small gigs in random places of Sweden. The first gig was at legendary "Festen På Gärdet" in Gärdet, where Träd Gräs & Stenar recorded their live album "Gärdet". Second gig was at Debaser, Slussen in Stockholm which is a pretty big stage. And the third gig was at one of Swedens biggest festivals: Way Out West in Göteborg!. These guys have only got three songs on their Myspace with a total of 12 000 plays. Right now they are working on a debut album which I think will be amazing!
Litsen to the song "Anna", a great song about a youth named Christian and his neighbour Anna who's really old and always crashes his parties and gives him wine and a smoke. Great 7:53 minute long ride of the Swedish folk-music.

Skit i Allt

2010-09-23T09:55:00.000-07:00

I have totally forgot about this! The great psychedelic/folk/jazz band Dungen released their sixth album a few weeks ago, can't wait to get a hold of a copy because it sounds great. A bit more relaxed than older Dungen, altough they've made quite a few chilled out songs before. The new album is called Skit i Allt (Fuck it all, literally translated), it countains 10 songs. I think the sound of this album is great, really keeps up with all the good produced earlier stuff. Here's the video for the song "Skit i Allt":

Dungen - Skit i Allt

And I have to give you this one too, because it's so great:

Dungen - Marken Låg Stilla

Trippy Sundown Syndrome Baby!

2010-09-23T08:59:00.000-07:00

Tame Impala, the band from down under who are on their way of taking over the whole psychedelic scene. I know they're not new or so but I just had to take it up, since they are so fucking amazing.. They've got the sound of everything you like in psychedelic music. Not in the mood for some long bullshit talk about how good they are so here's a video of them making the best use for a kazoo that anyone has ever done:

Tame Impala - Sundown Syndrome (Live @ Sonic Stage)

Some children just amaze me..

Echoes

2010-09-21T16:36:00.000-07:00

This is the best song that has ever been made.

Rad Psych

2010-09-20T23:53:00.000-07:00

Let's talk about some unknown Swedish psychedelic bands.

Legalize Lola is a cool upcomming (atleast I hope so) band from Östersund, they take most of their inspiration from The Black Angels and are going for that darker psychedelic sound. They've only got three songs on their Myspace but they are not some boring three minute long songs that ends before they even start, oh no. 6:02, 8:55 and 5:00. Litsen to the song "Dead Climbers (LIVE@TINGAN), I sense that they will become a great live band.
Oh, did i forget to tell you? THEY ARE ALL GIRLS!

Barrett Elmore is a psychedelic band from Stockholm which sounds like a complitation of Pink Floyd, Gorillaz, Jefferson Airplane and Kebnekajse. With a male (also bass) and a female (also flute) as lead singers, a guitarist with the best sound I've heard in a long time and a drummer giving it all they create a sound that really blows your mind.. Litsen to the songs "The Prophet (Ride Through the Night)" and "Stop Breakin' Down", which is a great cover of Robert Johnson, probably the most creative cover I've ever heard, This is music my friends. And by the way, they are available on Spotify.

Great covers on HAWKWIND

2010-09-14T14:43:00.000-07:00

If you've never heard of Hawkwind, you've missed out. It's one of the greater Psychedelic/Space/Rock bands with a darker and harder attitude. Lemmy Kilmister used to play with them. Anyway these are three great cover 7" from some rad bands. Great remake of the old album art from the Hawkwind album "Space Ritual" on these singles.

Mudhoney / Mugstar - Sonic Attack (Motorheads)

Kinski / Bardo - Sonic Attack (Lords of Light)

White Hills / Acid Mother Tempel - Sonic Attack (Psychedeic Warlords)

The musician is the art of creating

2010-09-12T16:44:00.000-07:00

Who said peace and love wouldn't kill anyone?

2010-09-09T06:17:00.000-07:00

If psychedelics would rule the world, there'd still be war.. Probably not as much, but just a bit more cute than it is today.

This is the war on drugs.. Literally..

Kingdom of Heaven

2010-09-09T02:54:00.000-07:00

The Entrance Band tour dates! Including Dungen!

2010-09-07T14:00:00.000-07:00

Just got the news that the amazing holy divine insane Psychedelic/Rock band The Entrance Band are touring the states from September 17th to October 29th.
       The band is built on three pillars; Paz Lenchantin on bass who will become one of the most legendary bassists in the world, already being the best female who's ever held on to an instrument, Guy Blakeslee on guitar (not only holding the guitar wrong but also playes with the strings upside down! that makes it eBGDAE!!) and incredible song and last but not least Derek James, fantastic drummer who's more into the music than the audiance watching them on acid.
       Last year they released their first album, selftitled. Including outrageous songs like "Grim Reaper Blues Pt. 2", as a follow-up on the old "Grim Reaper Blues" Guy released on his solo album "Prayer of Death".
       And if thats not good enough for you who live there the swedish Psychedelic/Folk/Prog/Rock band Dungen are touring with them from September 25th to October 15th.
Dungen is a great band with influences from hip hop and old swedish prog/rock who's created their own sound, really outstanding from a lot of other psychedelic bands. And in latest interview leader of the band and singer Gustav Estjes said that they're not really a psychedelic band, neither a rock band, nor folk. They don't have a genre for their music since it's just made up from different feelings.
   This will probably be one of the best tours this year! I'm so mad that I will miss it all..

The Entrance Band - Grim Reaper Blues (Live at Bonnaroo Music Fest)

Dungen - Panda (Live at The Loft, Texas)

Question of love, State of mind?

2010-09-07T13:22:00.000-07:00

come quick
faster!
she yelled
as her children came running towards her
gather up
come closer
crawl under my feet and i will show you all about it
look over there!
flowers
beautiful colors
merging together from the shadows of the trees standing in line as three year old soldiers
litsen
hear them out
she said
as the flowers merged into their eyes, leaving nothing but a beautiful mind inside

moments later
minutes..
hours..
days?
when her children fly away inside a thousand butterflies the eruption of a volcano across the ocean makes the world look a lot worse than it is
love was the subject
passion for life was the question
this is what she answered

Neo-Psychedelic

2010-09-07T05:25:00.000-07:00

Earlier this year The Brian Jonestown Massacre released their twelfth studio album, "Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?", unfortunatelly it didn't make much of a fuzz and still has'nt. I really like this album. I think Anton has done it again. The album contain brilliant songs like Tempo 116.7 (Reaching for Dangerous Levels of Sobriety), This Is the First of Your Last Warning (Icelandic version) and This Is the One Thing We Did Not Want to Have Happen. The album is a lot about big beats and more twisted guitars than you're used to. On the BJM website you find music videos for all the songs of the album, really good videos too. In the video for the song "Lets Go Fucking Mental" there's a small town built in lego with lego-people walking around. An experiment goes wrong and a disease gets out from a laboratory to the streets and everybody dies.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Tempo 116.7 (Reaching for Dangerous Levels of Sobriety)

And while we're on the subject of the BJM neo-psychedelia let's talk about bands that sound "a bit" like them.

Rancho Relaxo is a norwegian Neo-Psychedelic/Shoegaze band with a great sound and this year they released their forth album called "New Kind of Orchide". This is an awesome album, it's so damn great that I can't even believe that they are as unknown as they are. This is such good music that it doesn't matter that they've been litsening to The Brian Jonestown a lot. My personal favorite track from the album is "Freuds God, Spaceman". Anyway here's a great video from a great band:

Rancho Relaxo - Plan Your Revolution

One more band I'd like to take up is a band called The Orange Revival, it's a Swedish Neo-Psychedelic/Folk-Rock band who's been merging together for the last year creating soem sweet tunes. They recently went out on a European tour without having a single gig booked when they hit the road, they played acoustic in the streets of big capital cities and more through Europe and earned some gigs inside clubs and such. Here is their latest song, which really doesnt sound anything like BJM but more like The Doors or maby The Velvet Underground.

The Orange Revival - She Couldn't Imagine

The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream

2010-09-06T17:40:00.000-07:00

When I first read about The Black Angels releasing a new album in September 2010 I thought "WOW! FINALLY! YES!" but after have litsened to the album "Phosphene Dream" I must say that I am a bit dissapointed.

Sure they still sound like The Black Angels and have that sound of guitars vibrating in your brain for a day or two but they've gone from a band who you can tell are inspired by the 60's music to a band who tries to be a band from the 60's. They have dropped the heavy, dark and mysterious sound and gone for a more happy, flower power and bright sound. And I don't like it.

I mean, sure the songs are still good but they are not anywhere near the songs from their last album "Directions To See A Ghost".
The album starts with the song "Bad Vibrations" and when you hear it you feel euforic and satisfied because you think that they've kept their sound from previous albums, although it's a bit different, in a good way though. After this song the whole album just leaps out into new directions not knowing exactly if it's going to copy the sound of The 13'th Floor Elevators, The Doors, The Rolling Stones or maby even something new like The Mooney Suzuki. It's just wrong... Sure I will litsen to the album, but I probably won't be litsening to the whole album.
And on top of all this they(or probably their record company) have made a shitty deal with Spotify so if you don't have Spotify Premium, you can only litsen to five songs from the album. Anyway here's a link to the free Phosphene Dream on Spotify.

A blog about psychedelic movement

2010-09-06T17:16:00.000-07:00

The perpose of this blog is to reflect on psychedelic music/art/performances/work from yesterday and today. I will write about everything that comes to my mind and visions and thoughts myself and other persons have about life and all it's mysteries.
If you have any thoughts about what I write or what I should write about, please comment or send a mail.

Cheers