After a twenty-one-year career, British doom / stoner veterans Cathedral have announce their retirement from the scene. The band will make its exit from the live arena at the end of this year and plans to record one final studio album to be released in 2012. Commented vocalist Lee Dorrian; It's sim ...

Praise for Flower Travellin? Band?s Make Up from San Francisco?s aQuarius Records: Released in 1973, Make Up was the final album (not counting their recent, and unfortunately disappointing, reunion disc) from these ?70s Japanese heavy psych rock gods. A gatefold double LP packaged extravagantly in ...

Praise for Nadja‘s Sky Burial from San Francisco?s aQuarius Records: Yet another new Nadja, this one part of Southern’s Latitudes series, where bands are given some time in Southern Studios to write, rehearse and record a new and exclusive, often improvised set of songs. The duo of Aidan ...

Lovingly pinched from BBC Music: Monolithic particle generators emit insect chat to the skies, while adjacent cloud territories lie pregnant with oscillating womb throb. Welcome to the sound of Berlin 1971: transcendental proto-techno conjured by Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Conny Plan ...

JJ Koczan of The Obelisk recently conducted an interview with Scott  “Wino” Weinrich of Saint Vitus and The Obsessed-fame, and it features in-depth questions focusing on signing to volcom, going acoustic, savoy brown, pentagram, spirit caravan, new shrinebuilder, saint vitus and much mo ...

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: As a dickhead Northeastern liberal college boy, my impulse when it comes to North Carolinian sludgers Weedeater is to see their dirt-worshiping malevolence as some form of high art. This held true with 2007?s excellent God Luck and Good Speed, but perhaps the drive ...

The Bone Reader recently conducted an interview with Earth‘s Dylan Carson, and it features questions focusing on getting the tour plans together in support of Earth?s upcoming album Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I TBR: So the new record is fucking outstanding. I hate to say someth ...