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Ripely Pine

Lady Lamb The Beekeeper

Solid folk-psych debut from Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter

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World Music

Goat (music group)

It shouldn't work, but it does

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The Astral Body Electric

Herbcraft

Dude...whoa...

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Alphawaves

Life Coach (music group)

Post-rock solo project becomes questing neo-psychedelic duo.

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Music Feature

Memory Motel: Power-Pop Prince Huw Gower Gets Psychedelic

By Jim Allen

The Records' axeman stretches out on his own

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Badwater

Speck Mountain

Slow-motion dream pop with a desert-moonlight vibe

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Allah-Las

Allah-Las

Record store clerks rifle the garage-psych section.

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Music News

Caveman will deliver slow-burning psychedelia for new album, spring tour

By Liam Carroll

Ready to get prehistoric, y'all?

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Ascent

Six Organs of Admittance

A sneak Comets On Fire reunion.

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Psychedelic Pill

Neil Young

We forgive them for Americana.

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Memory Motel: The Smithereens' Secret Backstory

By Jim Allen

'80s alt-rock heroes' remarkable run-up to success

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Lonerism

Tame Impala

Australian psych-rockers keep getting better.

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Magical Mystery Tour

The Beatles

Goo goo ga joob.

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An Awesome Wave

Alt-J

2012's most exciting debut album.

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Woods stream dreamy new album Bend Beyond

By Rishbha Bhagi

Get lost in the Woods.

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Get your psych-folk and goth fix with Faun Fables fall tour

By Stewart Mason

Faun Fables frolic with Rasputina.

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Black Mesa

Jon Porras

Cinematic journey through the post-rock desert.

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Sugar Man hitting the road

By Stewart Mason

The Mexican-American answer to Nick Drake.

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Tame Impala previews second album

By Stewart Mason

Lonerism out in October.

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Ariel Pink previews new single

By Stewart Mason

Jangly neo-psych gem from upcoming album.

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The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends

The Flaming Lips

Treading a fuzzy line between excellence and noisy novelty.

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45 Years Ago: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

By Stewart Mason

Still the most overrated album of all time

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Critical 10: Robin Gibb’s Finest

By Stewart Mason

Barry Gibb was the mastermind and, it must be said,… >>

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Six Organs of Admittance goes to 11

By Stewart Mason

Full-band electric album due August 21

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Redd Kross announce comeback album

By Stewart Mason

Researching The Blues out on Merge in August

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Best of the New Psychedelia

By Michael Wojtas

Just as Paisley Underground and shoegaze greats breathed new life… >>

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Critical Mob's Record Store Day Picks

By Laura Smith

The stuff to stand on line for.

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Track of the Day: MMOSS

By Stewart Mason

New Hampshire psych-heads preview next album

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Frying On This Rock

White Hills

Brooklyn space rockers discover structure.

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Yellow Submarine finally hits DVD/Blu-Ray

By Stewart Mason

On the shelves May 28

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Critical Picks: Music for Spring 2012

By Stewart Mason

Five spring releases we can't wait to hear.

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Critical 10: Overlooked Irish Artists

By Stewart Mason

10 bands well-suited for your St. Paddy playlist.

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J. Mascis gets psychedelic

By Stewart Mason

Album of guitar instrumentals due in May

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Woodsist Festival 2012 lineup announced

By Stewart Mason

Psych-folk gathering in Big Sur

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Memory Motel: From Straight to Bizarre

By Jim Allen

Documentary covers Zappa’s freak-fueled labels.

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MMOSS and Woods announce tour dates

By Stewart Mason

There's a pun there somewhere.

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Melt

Young Magic

A young band's zealous first stride.

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Wooden Shjips preview Andrew Weatherall remix

By Stewart Mason

US psychedelicists meet UK remix masters.

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Ty Segall and White Fence to release LP collaboration

By Stewart Mason

Noisy California kids join forces.

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BBC Radio 4 streams doc about new wave graphic legend Barney Bubbles

By Stewart Mason

Discovering the man behind the new wave myth.

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Austin Psych Fest announces lineup, offers free mixtape

By Stewart Mason

Lysergic festival marks fifth birthday.

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Third

Soft Machine

Canterbury kings' most celebrated album.

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Creatures Of An Hour

Still Corners

Promising but evanescent debut LP.

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Radiant Door

Crystal Stilts

Busy Brooklynites wrap up a productive year.

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The Canterbury Scene

By Jim Allen

Lovable left-field corner of the art-rock kingdom.

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The Smile Sessions

The Beach Boys

What do pop nerds have to look forward to now?

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Look Through Any Window: 1963-1975

The Hollies

Britpop princes’ tale in words and music.

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The Stepkids

The Stepkids

Modernist psychedelic soul from Connecticut.

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Comecrudos

Pontiak

Virginia trio go on a desert-psych road trip.

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Gentle Spirit

Jonathan Wilson

Folk-rock balladeer taps into the Laurel Canyon spirit.

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i

MMOSS

Psychedelic pop that doesn't forget the songcraft.

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West

Wooden Shjips

Drone-psych quartet sharpen their focus.

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In Love With Oblivion

Crystal Stilts

Sometimes-jarring but likeable history lesson of gloom.

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The Collage

The Collage

Sunshine pop cult heroes get deluxe reissue.

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Port Entropy

Shugo Tokumaru

Wide-eyed, warmhearted pop songcraft.

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Stewart Mason’s Top 10 Albums of 2010

By Stewart Mason

From the self-assured full-length debuts of Janelle Monae, Tame Impala… >>

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Sonic Boom

By Sam LaCroix

Psychedelic upstart evolves into minimalist godfather.

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Grinderman 2

Grinderman

A side project as good as their proper albums.

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Dandelion Gum

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Psychedelic retro-futurists expand their breakthrough album.

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Steeple

Wolf People

Transcending modernity’s malaise through stomping riffs.

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Skit I Allt

Dungen

Psychedelic Swedes get mellow.

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Tidings

Wolf People

Young Brits hit that psychedelic sweet spot.

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Parallelograms

Linda Perhacs

One of the finest psych-folk records of all time.

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Before Today

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti

Longtime underground hero steps into the marketplace.

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Innerspeaker

Tame Impala

2010 Critical Mob fave gets belated (and expanded!) US release.

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Satori

Flower Travellin’ Band

The best hard rock you've never heard.

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Like…Wow: Spacy Chicks

By Stewart Mason

Often strangely alluring, occasionally a bit unsettling, but always endearing,… >>

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Critical Influences: Patti Smith

By Stewart Mason

More than any other poet turned rocker, Patti Smith fused… >>

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Summer Songs For Winter Nights

By Stewart Mason

Nothing warms the chill of a midwinter night like thoughts… >>

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Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

Wondering what all the fuss is about? Start here.

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At Echo Lake

Woods

A giant leap forward.

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True Love Cast Out All Evil

Roky Erickson

One-time lost cause makes triumphant return.

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Wake Up The Nation

Paul Weller

This is one daft record.

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Soft Machine

By Jim Allen

Canterbury psych-jazz sorcerers.

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Psychotropia

Nick Nicely

British psychedelia enters the modern age.

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Critical Lone Star Indie Rock

By T. Cole Rachel

Texas might not immediately spring to mind as the most… >>

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Congratulations

MGMT

Would benefit from being a lot weirder, or at least… >>

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It’s A Cinch To Give Legs To Old Hard Boiled Eggs

Maxfield Parrish (music group)

Brilliant songs mixing country, folk, and psychedelic rock.

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Beat The Devil's Tattoo

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

The band’s fuzziest, dirtiest, bluesiest record to date.

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The Call

By Jim Allen

America's answer to U2 and Simple Minds.

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Broken Bells

Broken Bells

Dreamy psychedelia meets shoegazing indie pop.

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Fight Softly

The Ruby Suns

A somewhat disappointing follow-up from a promising young band.

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Plastic Beach

Gorillaz

Sifting through the detritus of modern civilization to create something… >>

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Dark Days/Light Years

Music Group

Glam-rocking guitars, burbly vintage synths and groovy freakbeat rhythms underpin… >>

Culture Profile

Hipgnosis

By Stewart Mason

More than any other design company, Hipgnosis was responsible for… >>

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Barney Bubbles

By Stewart Mason

London ad man turns lysergic light-show hippie, then becomes the… >>

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The Left Banke

By Jim Allen

Baroque pop as heart-stoppingly beautiful as anything on Pet Sounds

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Inherent Vice

Thomas Pynchon

Even post-modernists need a good beach read now and then.

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The Flaming Lips

By T. Cole Rachel

Beloved Oklahoma freak-rockers.

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Signal Morning

Circulatory System

Elephant 6 vets go straight.

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Lost Krautrock Classics: 10 Under-Appreciated German Gems

By Jim Allen

Ever since the mid-'90s Krautrock revival made it cool to… >>

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Roky Erickson

By Stewart Mason

He's a man, not a sideshow act.

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The Zombies

By Jim Allen

Visionary British Invasion band who became baroque-pop pioneers

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T. Rex

By Stewart Mason

Glam icon Marc Bolan and friends.

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The Byrds

By Stewart Mason

Iconic, yet somehow still underrated.

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Hippie Death Trips

By Stewart Mason

What happens when peace, love and flowers aren't the answer?… >>

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Forever Changes

Love (band)

Surface prettiness masks flower power's dark undercurrents

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Sly and the Family Stone

By Stewart Mason

The first psychedelic soulsters to reach the kids as well… >>

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Rites

Cliffie Swan

Enough sudden left turns to cause whiplash.

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Prince

By Jim Allen

A pioneering mix of pop, rock, R&B, and left-field eccentricity.

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Are We Experimental?

Acid Mothers Temple

About as far as rock can go.

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Hawkwind

By Jim Allen

Sci-fi hippies with quark, strangeness and charm.

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Circulatory System

By Stewart Mason

The continuation of the Olivia Tremor Control following the departure… >>

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Yellow Submarine

George Dunning

Light on actual Beatles, blissfully heavy on kaleidoscopic '60s animation.

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Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

Focuses freewheeling experimentalism into relatively concise song structures

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Robert Wyatt

By Stewart Mason

Prog-fusion drummer turned affecting singer-songwriter.

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The Beatles

By Stewart Mason

Fab.

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