Dryewater dropped 'Southpaw' in 1974, a heavy slab of "Charlotte burnout" rock. The band cut their teeth in the late '60s NC club scene, specifically at local dives like Phantasmagoria. It is a rare piece of private press history, back in circulation now thanks to a reissue from Noble Records.

The release of Heaven’s ‘The Invisible City of Kartesh’ unlocks a genuine historical vault from the late 60s British underground. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/03/heav...

Formed in 1989 by four high school friends fueled by late-adolescent boredom and a shared love for the Cramps and Bo Diddley, the band stumbled into becoming pioneers of a distinct Midwestern cow-punk movement. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/03/ugly...

Seamlessly blending surf rock, late-60s proto-punk, and Eastern psychedelia, Germany’s the Roaring 420s sound like an obscure treasure unearthed at a California garage sale.

Released on Morgan Blue Town Records Ltd., Phil Seamen Meets Eddie Gomez by the Phil Seamen Trio is a fine 1968 recording that brilliantly captures a remarkable drummer leading an exceptional group.

Philadelphia trumpeter and composer John Vanore has spent more than 40 years mapping an island he has never set foot on, and his new album Easter Island Suite is the vivid culmination of that obsession. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/03/john...

The Istanbul shamans of Congulus lock horns with Australian astral-plodders Comacozer across this second Reverberations slab, teaming up to unleash a brain-frying, continent-cracking instrumental exorcism of amp-melting fuzz.

Before he helped turn Rhino into the gold standard of reissues, before the books, the Grammys, and the reputation as one of rock’s most obsessive historians, Harold Bronson was a college kid in Los Angeles pressing his own records because nobody else would. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/03/haro...

‘Pilgrims And Psychonauts’ by Nepal Death (Kali Psyche Records). Oh, yeah, this is a journey you want to be part of.

Ko Shin Moon began as a suitcase full of instruments... www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/03/ko-s...

On their debut album 'This Town' (Heavy Rhythm & Roll Records / Cargo Records), Austrian frontman Tobias Jussel and his band deliver a really compelling recording.  I just love the 70s undertones on it.

On ‘Ven al fuego,’ Madrid’s Mohama Saz manages to capture the sweat-soaked euphoria of their gigs straight onto tape. Driven by the hypnotic sting of an electrified Baglama Saz, the album throws wild Middle Eastern ragas and Mediterranean psychedelia into a relentless go-go groove.

‘Sorcerers Laughing Out In The Heat’ by Marcel Gidote’s Holy Crab is an intricately layered record well worth diving into. The album was primarily tracked in the band’s beloved cottage studio, soaking up the stifling, atmospheric energy of the summer of 2024.

Embark on a journey through the kaleidoscopic landscapes of sound, guided by the rhythms of the past and present, with The Night Tripper’s podcast. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/02/ross...

Spawn spent nine years transforming their murky stoner doom into expansive psych rock, weathering lineup shifts and profound grief along the way. The resulting album channels that hard-earned resilience into a heavy, clear-eyed sonic journey across continents.

Released by the seminal ADN Records, ‘Sur les Bords’ represents a rigorous exploration of analog texture by Dominique Grimaud and Véronique Vilhet, who eschew synthesis to construct a dynamic sonic architecture defined by the iconic saturation...

Two decades constitutes a geological epoch in the timeline of French avant-rock. That is the precise duration of the silence broken by Chevreuil... www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/02/chev...

On ‘The Last Days of Mirror Life,’ Waudby sings like a lone archivist at the end of the coast, fingerpicked chords creaking under stories of drowned towns, stubborn survivors, and the eerie hush of a future that already feels half remembered… it’s a stunning record.

On ‘Pieces for Collective Change,’ pianist and composer Rok Zalokar pushes Zhlehtet toward a denser, more tactile ensemble language, one where composition behaves more like a fluid dialogue. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/02/rok-...

W.D. Miller’s path to his latest release, ‘Child Of The Kindly South,’ runs through decades of playing clubs, small venues, and just about every style of American roots music he could get his hands on. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/02/w-d-...

Subliminal Sounds has done a great service by reissuing the work of TRP, a group of elementary school friends from Fjälkinge who recorded a cult 1982 single and a batch of unreleased tracks before they even hit their teens.

Gregg McKella has spent decades moving through the UK underground scene, collaborating with curiosity, and a willingness to follow unusual sounds wherever they lead. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/02/greg...

On ‘Valerian Tea’ (Exploding In Sound), San Francisco’s Magic Fig steeps the pastoral whimsy of the Canterbury scene in a heavy dose of garage rock fuzz, creating a mellotron-laced funhouse where sunny, glockenspiel-flecked melodies inevitably curdle into disorienting, psychedelic fever dreams.

After nearly two decades away from solo work, Greg Weeks returns with 'If the Sun Dies,' an album that announces the arrival of a musician refined by years of experience. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/02/greg...

Formed in 1995 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Sleepytime Trio emerged from a tight-knit college-town underground where punks, art kids, and outsiders built their own stage in basements and living rooms. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/02/slee...

Recorded in 1975 as a demo to woo labels, Yezda Urfa’s ‘Boris’ was rejected for being “too complex.” Today, it’s a Holy Grail of American Prog. It’s fast, chaotic, and technically brilliant. This is top notch Noble Records version!

Maqom Soul Records: Yashlik, Uyghur Psych, and the Modal Jazz of the Soviet Underground www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/02/maqo...

Maqom Soul Records: Yashlik, Uyghur Psych, and the Modal Jazz of the Soviet Underground www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/02/maqo...

Spontaneous, meditative... www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/02/gree...

'Wide Open' is a 1971 monolith of the Australian underground. The telepathic twin-guitar weaving of Gaze and Wilson rides atop a wild rhythm section. This record is a melodic, sun-drenched, heavy-psych masterpiece. (Guerssen reissue)

Reflecting on my interview with him, I am struck by the profound, aching beauty in the fact that Tommy Talton returned to the hallowed ground of Capricorn Studios to record his final artistic statement, surrounded by the very Cowboy brothers who started the journey with him. (Strolling Bones)

‘Give The Vibes Some’ by Khan Jamal stands as a luminous highlight of Jef Gilson’s PALM label, empowering the Philadelphia exile to transmute professional neglect into a vibrant, spiritual statement that intuitively melds the vibraphone’s cool introspection with the pulse of the avant-garde.

Originally pressed in 1972 in an edition of around ten copies, ‘The Chemist’ by The Musical Players sits comfortably among the rarest and strangest artefacts of British acid-folk. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/02/the-...

With ‘Enter Xenon,’ Detroit’s Custard Flux illuminates the void, guiding us further down a path of expansive, aural exploration.

Emerging from Rockford, Illinois in the early 1970s, Mad Dancers stood apart from the bar-band circuit that defined much of the local scene. Built from marathon jam sessions where “sometimes the riff would drive the idea and sometimes the idea would drive the riff”...

In the blur of the late 1980s and early 90s, great bands seem to disappear as soon as they arrived. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/01/the-...

This is truly fascinating research by Brock Silversides. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/01/stru...

'Dis qu’t’as tort' is a wordless manifesto by Tagubu and Klimperei that weaponizes chaotic instrumentation and biting irony to spit sonic disgust in the face of a world derailing into autocracy.

Few bands in British music have navigated the uncharted waters of change and tragedy with the grace of Fairport Convention. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/01/fair...

Ashes And Diamonds brings together three musicians whose pasts sit in very different corners of British and transatlantic music, but whose instincts meet around groove, texture and restraint. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/01/ashe...

Ashes And Diamonds brings together three musicians whose pasts sit in very different corners of British and transatlantic music, but whose instincts meet around groove, texture and restraint. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/01/ashe...

‘Until The End (The Lost Album)’ unearths Wil Malone’s forgotten 1970 sessions. Intended as the successor to his debut, this collection shifts from heavy psych to infectious ’60s pop and bubblegum.

Legendary trumpeter Don Ellis once dubbed Jimbo Ross the “only jazz violist in captivity,” a title the veteran musician has owned through a dizzying career accompanying icons ranging from Frank Sinatra to James Brown. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/01/jimb...

Singapore legends The October Cherries morph into Truck, delivering a collision of Beatlesque melodies, wah-wah guitars, and analog synths that sounds like Abbey Road filtered through a unique haze from this short-lived studio spin-off of Singapore psych-pop wonders The October Cherries.

Vast Pyre, one of the Germany’s heaviest travelers into the abyss, return with ‘Bleak’ (Argonauta Records), a devastating, guitar-driven stoner/doom record that offers a minimalist yet monumental sonic descent into nightmarish dread.

Emerging from Rockford, Illinois in the early 1970s, Mad Dancers stood apart from the bar-band circuit that defined much of the local scene. An interview about rediscovered ’70s tapes. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/01/mad-...

The album avoids sterile production by letting the tape roll, capturing the loose interplay between jazz and psych-rock to create a genuinely live atmosphere. Kronstad 23’s ‘Sommermørket’ (El Paraiso) obliterates the clock, creating a gravitational pull that drags the listener into a deep void.

Buzzard operates in the fertile borderlands where acoustic confession meets doomed amplification, a self-described realm that’s “too folk to be metal and too metal to be folk.” psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/01/buzzard-interview.html

How does a band from Cleveland, Mississippi end up recording with Curt Boettcher, touring with the Temptations and the Stones, and making a blink-and-you-miss-it appearance in The Graduate? www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/01/eter...

With 'Abscheu und Neugier' (Noise Appeal Records), Dim Prospects deliver a heart-hitting punk manifesto that confronts the madness of modern "normality" with equal parts furious disgust and fascinated detachment.