Coming from the south of Chile, progressive rock is part of Cochebomba‘s makeup, but what is most interesting about this band is the blend that they’ve created with that genre, mixing elements of rap, electronic music and tropical psychedelia.... Read Article
The SXSW Music Festival is one of the largest and most influential global music industry events of the year, taking place every March in Austin, Texas. We’re delighted to announce our picks for those lucky enough to attend... Read Article
Think of psychedelic funk, put in some soul and place it in early 70s Brazil. That is exactly what awaits you from The Brasileiro Treasure Box of Funk and Soul. Released by Boston-based label Cultures of Soul, the... Read Article
There was a time in my young life where I had the most insane crush on Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors. Sure, he was long dead by the time I discovered him and his music—but I’d... Read Article
Listening to Salvadora Robot, the new album from Colombia’s Meridian Brothers, you get the feeling that Eblis Álvarez was one of those kids at school who willfully avoided fitting in with the crowd, who maintained an aloof detachment... Read Article
Even though this is the age of remixing, repurposing, rescuing lost sounds and re-contextualizing old popular ones, it’s still quite hard for musicians to create a coherent intersection between the elements of each genre or style without sounding... Read Article
Excellent news for fans of acid-tinged Chilean space rock: one of the finest bands to emerge on Santiago’s music scene in recent times have just announced their first European tour. The Holydrug Couple are, as the name suggests,... Read Article
La Mecánica Popular, quite simply our favorite (and the only?) psychedelic salseros from New York City, have dropped a new video for their single, “La Paz del Freak.”
It’s always ‘puro vacilón’ when our favorite Bogotá, Colombia,-based Barranquilleros release new music. Colectro, which dub their style of folkloric-tinged rock music as coletera, have gifted fans with quite the psychedelic track in ‘Magende.’ The video features the psychedelic journey of... Read Article
At the height of the hippie counterculture years (1963-75) funk, soul and jazz carried rhythms of love, peace and unity across borders. In the United States discos, drugs and cocktails produced a recipe that injected life into the... Read Article
Now, we have to be honest and admit that we don’t know that much about Meridian Brothers. As their latest release is called Meridian Brothers VII though we are sure that they have a long story that needs... Read Article
