Sonic Boom schedules a show; Spiritualized tickets on sale Brooklyn Vegan (blog) Sonic Boom aka Peter Kember of Spacemen 3/Spectrum/EAR, has had a busy last two years, producing MGMT's Congratulations and playing live with them in 2010, and producing Panda Bear's Tomboy and playing live with him in 2011. Now, he's kicking off 2012 ...
Spiritualized Announces World Tour, Chicago Date Gapers Block 1992's Lazer Guided Melodies signaled that band leader Jason Pierce was going to continue to effectively mine the psychedelic vein of his former band, Spacemen 3. Spiritualized reached their critical peak with 1997's Ladies and Gentlemen We are ...
Elvis Depressedly signs to Working Group Artist Altsounds.com Elvis Depressedly showcases Cothran's honest, cathartic lyrics with shoegazey melodies and influences that range from Conor Oberst, Elliott Smith, Spacemen 3 and even Burzum. Elvis Depressedly will digitally release Cutters Only, The Ontological ...
Album Of The Week: Mark Lanegan Band Blues Funeral Stereogum And it's not too surprising that big chunks of the album — first single and opening track “The Gravedigger's Song” in particular rock hard, with a drawn-out faraway Hawkwind/Spacemen 3 type of space-riffage. That song and “Riot In My House” come with ...
Listen to Magic Castles 'Death Dreams' and 'Ballad of the Golden Bird' Altsounds.com Inspired by Spacemen 3, Skygreen Leopards, Galaxie 500, the band combines warm Farfisa drones with hazy guitars and bright vocal harmonies to create something similar without sounding redundant. Whether it be storybook psych, mildewy dark garage, ...
Wooden Shjips - Remixes 12" DOA Perhaps seeking to muddy and blur his own inspiration on Wooden Shjips from his erstwhile tenure in Spacemen 3, Kember's searing spliced-together walls of backwards drum loops and nausea-inducing guitar distortion will leave even the hardiest fan of ...
Fujiya & Miyagi - The Echo - 2/01/12 LA Weekly (blog) Sonically, Fujiya & Miyagi is more in line with the big groups of the late 1980s and 1990s -- bands like Spacemen 3, Stereolab and My Bloody Valentine -- than their contemporaries. There's a noisy intimacy in their music that's apparent both on record ...
Dean & Britta play Galaxie 500 at MTT Fest FFWD (blog) Along with that, the night will include appearances from Sonic Boom (of Spacemen 3), Cheval Sombre, Faux Fur, Dirty Sill, Famines, Wild Abandon, Damo Suzuki's Network, Rob Roy & the Sultans, Deadhorse, Ketamines and Extra Happy Ghost!
Space rock pioneer Silver Apples set for Glasgow Music and Film Festival. The List Only when a 1994 bootleg of the two albums appeared, followed by a 1996 tribute album and the likes of Spacemen 3's Sonic Boom citing Silver Apples as an influence did Simeon start twisting those dials again. 'It's rewarding to me,' says a zenned-out ...
