It’s not easy to find good festivals in the US, and it’s even more difficult if you’re looking for Stoner Rock festivals. Sweden has them, Greece has them, the Netherlands has them, Portugal has them—the list goes on and on outside of the US. I also live in the Midwest, so events like Psycho Las […]
Read More Festival Review: Ripplefest Texas 2023Over the last year, I’ve been trying to get my father into the more psychedelic end of the Stoner Rock spectrum. Since he’s a huge Pink Floyd fan, I often thought bands like Colour Haze and All Them Witches would scratch his psychedelic itch—but everything I threw at him met an unenthusiastic response. Until I […]
Read More Concert Review: Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats and King Buffalo at The Roxian Theatre in PittsburghOM is a genre-bending band that defies easy description. The Stoner Metal band formed after Sleep disbanded in the late 1990s, one of the good things that came out of Sleep’s self-destruction after recording Dopesmoker. While one can categorize OM as Stoner Metal, their influences reach far beyond that genre’s confines. Formed in 2003, OM […]
Read More Inside OM’s Legendary Five-Hour-Plus Concert in JerusalemIf you haven’t heard of OM, here’s a quick history lesson: In the mid-1990s, the Doom Metal landscape was briefly dominated by Sleep. Their brush with commercial success scored them a deal with a record company that gave them complete artistic control over their next album. Sleep took that freedom and recorded an hour-long song […]
Read More OM Concert Review: Spirit In Pittsburgh, PAThe Truckfighters. For those who love Fuzz Rock, the Truckfighters are the heirs to the Swedish Stoner Rock throne after Lowrider’s untimely demise (though they have since reunited to release Refractions this year). Similarly, the Truckfighters went on a “long, long hiatus” back in February of 2018. Fortunately, the hiatus didn’t last long. The band […]
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