Ben Forrest reviews the new album from Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Shyga! The Sunlight Mound.
In The Middle with The Shimmer Band
The Shimmer Band are one of the latest bands to emerge on the alternative music scene. Originally from Bristol, their music has been described as a sort of psychedelic rock. On Thursday night, they played […]
Volcano by Temples
Four years since their debut, Temples are back with their lysergic sophomore album Volcano, and it sounds like something The Beatles would produce if they were fed more psychedelics and handed a synth machine. Album […]
Jellyskin @ Milo Bar, 2/12/16
Jellyskin took to the small stage at Milo Bar and played an intense set of dreamy shoegaze. The atmosphere they conjure up is in equal measures romantic and brooding, and the two are blended between […]
Psychic Ills @ Headrow House, 28/11/16
“Are you ready to see the best band in Leeds?” somebody hollered as I winded up the stairs of Headrow House. They were referring, of course, to Team Picture, the Leeds newcomers supporting psych rock […]
Sun Ra Arkestra @ Belgrave, 27/11/16
For those that don’t know, the Sun Ra Arkestra is an avant-garde free jazz-cum-psychedelic-cum space jazz big band. Formed by Sun Ra in the early 1950s and carried on after his death in 1993, the […]
Jagwar Ma @ Brudenell, 25/10/16
When I walked into Brudenell Social Club and saw two members of the band sitting down having a pint and watching the football, it all felt a bit surreal. Jagwar Ma have been one of […]
Leeds College of Art | Psychedelic Posters from the 1960's – Expand Your Mind
Known as the “turbulent sixties”, 1960s America saw the rise of civil unrest, driven by the youth culture that were newly intoxicated by sex, drugs, rock and roll. The artists of this time toyed around […]
7PM: House of Holland
Another collection of Holland’s tinged with nostalgia, this one shone with British influence and truly captured the energy of yesteryear.