#psychedelic

Horatio Luna Trips on Jazz with his Psychedelic Freaks on Passing Through The Doorways of Your Mind

The Psychedelic Freaks take their own wild, whirling dervish-approach to jazz on their debut Passing Through The Doorways Of Your Mind, released on La Sape Records June 4. Like their name suggests, there's a lot of adventurous, freak-out psych trips along a journey of the jazz spectrum. Vocals...

Cat Woods

TRACK OF THE WEEKPsychic Twin "Lose Myself"

For AudioFemme's track of the week, Emily Daly reviews Psychic Twin's new single "Lose Myself" off her upcoming album Strange Diaries.

Emily Daly

ALBUM REVIEWMeilyr Jones "2013"

It doesn’t matter if you’ve never heard of Meilyr Jones, or his former band Race Horses. It doesn’t matter if you think Jones is English, when in fact, he’s a Welshman. It doesn’t even matter if you’re stumped on how exactly to pronounce “Meilyr”-because an authoritative voice tells you within the...

Madison Bloom

PLAYLISTA Guide To "Moon" Bands

There are only so many words, and as a result, only so many band names that can be claimed before they start to overlap. For example, here's six bands that have "moon" in their name, and considering these all were chosen simply because I've heard their name recently or saw it on a show calendar,...

Emily Daly

PLAYING DETROITMoonwalks "Lunar Phases"

Few bands are as aptly named as psychedelic Detroit four piece, Moonwalks, whose upcoming release Lunar Phases could act as a wild, yet tailored, road map to uninhabited galaxies and black holes, alike. The band's first LP, scheduled to release via cassette tape and digital download later this...

Jerilyn Jordan

ALBUM REVIEWSummer Twins "Limbo"

There are few things better than pop music that uses a bright, upbeat exterior to hide a deeper, darker message, and that’s exactly what the Riverside, CA based sisters Summer Twins have created with Limbo. Consider the album name, for starters. As well as being a fun party game, limbo also has the...

Emily Daly

PLAYING DETROITOdd Hours

The first half of my conversation with Natasha Beste of moody electro-pop duo Odd Hours is instantly dedicated to playing six degrees of separation between the two of us until we are able to piece our social puzzle together, realizing that we run in the same circles and are friends with the same...

Jerilyn Jordan

ALBUM REVIEWBlank Realm "Illegals In Heaven"

Blank Realm possesses their own unique energy no matter what genre a song of theirs lands in. And on their new album, Illegals In Heaven, the Brisbane siblings go through a few right away: There’s the opener “No Views,” which captures the scrappy, organized chaos of punk, followed by the shinier,...

Emily Daly

ALBUM REVIEWDeradoorian "The Expanding Flower Planet"

Angel Deradoorian is a former member of the Dirty Projectors. As one of the band's vocalists, she contributed to many of their trademark harmonies and long, sustained cries that used the singers' voices more like an instrument than just a way to deliver words. Some of that sound creeps into her...

Emily Daly

LIVE REVIEWPublic Service Broadcasting @ Bowery Ballroom

Public Service Broadcasting travels across the pond and through time to give us a funky dance party

J Moliere

TRACK OF THE WEEKTwin Limb "Long Shadow"

For a normal band, making an accordion sound cool would be no easy feat. But for the dream-folk duo Twin Limb, it's no big deal. Lacey Guthrie plays the instrument along with keys and vocals, and Maryliz Bender contributes vocals, drums and guitar, while Kevin Ratterman fills in the gaps with...

Emily Daly

BURGERAMA 4The Femme’s List of Who to See

For those of you not too familiar with the DIY whirlwind that is Burger Records, it is a Fullerton, California-based independent record label founded back in 2007 by Sean Bohrman and Lee Rickard. Burger is most well known for taking the off kilter route of releasing most of their material on...

Megan Huffman