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Night Of The Vampire Tour -

…I’m not sure that’s what the string of dates is officially being billed as, but it’s my website and I’m in the mood to pretend. Cool?

The Black Angels and psych-legend Roky Erickson (of 13th Floor Elevators fame) are touring together. Cool enough, right? Brace yourself, west coast...

Directions To See A Ghost - While this Austin group's debut album "Passover" was an initally impressive dose of drone-heavy psychedelic rock, subsequent listens (and to their credit, there were a lot) revealed that The Black Angels were lacking a strong personality. Still, there was enough magic in their rock grooves (inspired by the less-is-more sounds...

Directions to See A Ghost - The second album from the Black Angels is a psychedelic 70 minutes of stretched out doom-laden, drone-smothered psychedelia: no track shorter than four and a half minutes and a 16-minute conclusion. The first album, Passover, channelled the drone and drawl of the Velvet Underground with the psychedelic sounds of...

Directions To See A Ghost - Photo by Frank YangLast Thursday night, Lee's Palace played host to a meeting for the Toronto chapter of the "If It's Got More Than Two Chords It's #* percent?@!-ing Jazz! Society". Alright, not officially, but if such an organization were to be spontaneously created anywhere, the a show featuring...

The Warlocks -

Bobby Hecksher, former Beck session musician and guitarist for the Brian Jonestown Massacre, has led jam sessions under the banner of The Warlocks since the early naughties. Since day one, their records have been plagued by calls of obvious derivation from music critics with a sense of history. I like...

My Bloody Underground - Others: My Bloody Valentine, The Velvet Underground, John Lennon, R.E.M. Links: The Brian Jonestown Massacre Anton Newcombe, head of ever-rotating neo-psychedelic rock outfit The Brian Jonestown Massacre, is a recovering addict. His old drug of choice: rock n roll, and all its trappings - alcohol, heroin, and self destruction. Newcombes past afflictions...

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