PROS SAY SICK AMP

What will you say at the end of the day?

POCKETS FULL OF BLOOD

Gong was formed in 1967 by Daevid Allen and his girlfriend, Gilli Smyth (AKA Shakti Yoni), soon after Allen left the Soft Machine. They put out five albums with a constantly evolving lineup up until they both left the group in 1975. Gong continued on without them but sucked balls. Since then, both Allen and Smyth (sometime together, sometime separately) have worked with a number of bands using the Gong moniker in some form or another - Mother Gong, Acid Mother Gong, Gongmaison, NY Gong, you'N'gong. In 1977, Allen and Smyth joined up with a UK free-festival band called Here & Now to form Planet Gong. They recorded a live concert in Toulouse, France and released it the following year as Floating Anarchy,. The album contained all the weirdness you'd expect from a Gong album (Allen's whimsical chanting, Smyth's over-the-top space shrieking) with some of the best psych-punk shredding I've ever heard (think Hawkwind at the top of their game). Legend has it that while the band performed, there was a riot going on outside the gates when 3,000+ aggro hippies couldn't get into the sold-out festival. This shit rips but you don't have to take my word for it. Download it here.


This gets majorly heavy if you can make it to the end.

DISAPPEARING ALBUM

I know I said that Solar Hits was gonna be the only Archers' Guild release but I lied. We've got a brand new tape, hot off the presses. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Disappearing People:

FALSE AWAKENINGS from Celeste Byers on Vimeo.

This shit rules. Order or download it for free here.

I MAKE BOMBS IN THE CELLAR

This doc has been hanging out on the net for a few years already but someone finally had the great idea to upload a good quality version. Enjoy.

BLOOD MIXED WITH ALCOHOL

This one takes some time to build up but stick with it- it's heavy a shit.



Midday Veil is playing tomorrow at the Make-Out Room with Magic Leaves.

SNOW CRASH

Someone on the world wide web had the good grace to unearth and share this rare and unaired performance of your favorite band performing a song about your favorite Neal Stephenson novel on Germany's Beat Club in 1972. Genießen Sie!

Glitter Wizard - "Snow Crash" from Matthew Sevilla on Vimeo.

SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION

Archers' Guild Records is proud to (finally) present our first (last?) release, Solar Hits! That's right- your favorite psychedlic glam metal freak rock band, Glitter Wizard, has finally released a full-length.

Preview/buy a digital copy here or purchase it on vinyl here.

TRIPPIN' OUT ON TAXIDERMY

SLEEPY SCÉANCE

Sleepy Sun is the most professional band I've ever had the pleasure to share a stage with.

FLASHING CAVERNS

Whoever edited this video must be half blind by now.

Be sure to catch Lumerians on April 23rd at the Brookdale Lodge with Sleepy Sun and Glitter Wizard.

PSYCHEDELIC HEADBANG

MACROCOSMOSMOSMOSM

New video for Portland psych-wizards, Macrocosm:

SLEEPY SUN

When I first saw Sleepy Sun about four years ago they were calling themselves Mania and playing the kind of generic, white-boy blues that ex-rockers usually start "jamming" on when they hit their midlife crisis. Skip ahead a year or two later; we've all migrated from Santa Cruz to San Francisco and the band has changed their name to Sleepy Sun. I get an email from the band asking if I'll trade some poster work for free admission and some burrito money. I attended the show with low expectations but was completely blown away. This was an entirely new band! I new from the very first time I saw them that they were going to be a very big deal. These guys have it all figured out. Their melodies are pretty and accessible enough for the indie-rockers and heavy enough to keep the heads listening.
Sleepy's debut album, Embrace, is a perfect example of that dynamic. One minute they're soft and spacey and the next they're shredding on a riff that you can easily bang your head to. Their influences are all over the board. You can hear as much Jefferson Airplane in their music as you can Black Sabbath. Combine spaced-out vocal harmonies, pummeling drums, heavy-as-fuck bass grooves, and squalling guitar solos and you've got yourself one hell of a psychedelic album.