Word: psychedelia
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...group. Heavy-metal outfits like Guns N' Roses and Metallica, as well as such megatheatrical performers as Janet Jackson and David Bowie, have shown that computerized control of stage lighting creates a wide range of effects. The Grateful Dead, on a perpetual postmortem tour, keeps things fresh with computerized psychedelia synchronized to the music and projected on big screens. The aim is to find a visual corollary to the spontaneity of live (or Dead) rock 'n' roll...
PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE Run out of London, by the Bevis Frond and his friends, who--both in the records they make and in the zine they write--are mostly concerned with 60s psychedelia and its 80s-90s direct descendants, of whom there are many more than you think. Graphics are elaborately medieval, etched, antiquated and well-crafted. The Loud Family, talented Australian songwriter and ex-punk Ed Kuepper, and the former bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience are featured items in the "latest" issue; the 7" record inside sounds good too. Look for it at In Your Ear, or send...
...four-man band laid down wave after wave of their unique mix of psychedelia and guitar-heavy rock, playing a majority of songs from their two latest albums (Uncle Anesthesia and Sweet Oblivion) as well as a few older songs like "Where the Twain Shall Meet" and "Change Has Come...
...this, we don't anything musically definitive to say about alternative music. It is a garb bag of everything from blissed-out synthetic psychedelia redux to grundge guitar bands and thrash. Truth be told, it's pretty ad hoc. The closest we can get to a description bears a striking resemblance to the Army Crops of Engineers' definition of a wetland: We'll know it when...
Unfortunately, "She Drops Bombs" is indicative of the album as a whole. The twelve tracks end up blending together as one murky montage of tambourines, Hammond organs, watery electric guitars, and indistinct vocal harmonies which spew out shallow lines of neo-psychedelia such as "I hear your tambourines/inside my Etch-a-Sketch...