All Sensory Void - Secret Truth of the Universe

I've been delightfully following along the last few years as All Sensory Void, the solo project of The Nico Blues member Eric Goldberg released his exuberant conceptual albums at a prolific pace. Relax Man . . . You're Actually Just Energy Condensed to a Slow Vibration, Psychedelic Syd and the Recklessly Abandoned, and Everywhere You Go… There You Are. 
Expansive and engrossing, All Sensory Void's sound nibbles at all the nooks and cranny's of your cranium with probing tentacles. 
A talented self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Eric has worn every hat required to get his abundant creativity to fruition, and now to take his experimental psychedelic endeavor to the next level his latest release Secret Truth of the Universe will be the last as a solo artist as All Sensory Void will go full band with Members: Eric Goldberg: Guitar/Vocals -  Brian DePhillis: Drums/Samples Danny Goldberg: Bass/Vocals 
Also available on cassette via Goldberg’s own Sniffling Indie Kids

Henry's Rifle - Barroom Weather

The alter-ego of Albany songsmith John Alfred Pipino, Henry’s Rifle is pure fire ‘n’ brimstone country-blues. With a battered six-string banjo, a scorched holler and a pair of boots stomping on an old suitcase, Henry’s Rifle conjures up heaven, hell and all the American ghosts haunting the barrooms and plow fields in between. This is real roots music in all its raucous, heartbreaking glory.

Barroom Weather
Recorded and mixed by Jason Bonafide.
Mastered by Matthew Hendershot at Well Rounded Hoodlum.
Artwork and layout by John and Jill Pipino.

Henry's Rifle is John Alfred Pipino: vocals, six-string banjo, guitars, harmonica, stompbox
featuring:
Jason Bonafide: guitars, dobro, banjo, mandolin, lap steel, vocals
Mark McKenna: drums, percussion, vocals
Derek Melsheimer: bass guitar, vocals

Chris Jordan: baritone sax, alto sax, washboard, accordion, vocals
Dan Wilson: clarinet, vocals
Eric Halder: trumpet, trombone, classical guitar
Jeff Ayers: violin
Sarah Clark: Wurlitzer
Sean Fortune: upright bass

Perhaps Contraption Announce NEW Album

The wickedly wild, spontaneously explosible, Perhaps Contraption will be attending the 5th annual HONK!TX in Austin, 26th - 29th March and have a new album in the works for release later in the year.
You can also hear the album from start to finish, live album preview on Friday 17th April at the Courtyard Theatre in London. This has limited availability so please book from this link as tickets will sell out fast!

Newsletter subscribers get early access to new material before public release. Various videos are on the way and a new single will arrive later in February.
For those unfamiliar with this amazing conglomerate of musical hooligans...

We have made the decision to make our entire digital back catalogue available as a pay-what-you-can download.  Please take it, explore it, share it. It was made to belong in your ears and brains.

If you can afford anything in exchange, thank you! It will help this thing keep moving forward.

But if you can't afford anything we still love you!

You can pay it forward in other ways. Maybe by coming to see us live / playing us to a friend / talking about us online or in the real world / connecting us to a contact who might help us progress / buying our music at some point in the future...etc.

See the new video from any of the band’s point of view – just click when the boxes pop up and choose your own journey

Perhaps Contraption - Perambulations from The Ungewinster on Vimeo.

Flip it to the B-Side little hurricane Gold Fever B​-​Sides

San Diego, CA.'s purveyors of rockin' dirty blues, little hurricane new EP of previously unreleased songs, Weak Spot and Eye of the Storm, a full version of Hold Me Back as well as some live tracks from the recent Gold Fever album.  You can pay as much or as little as you would like for the EP, they just hope you enjoy the songs! 

The dynamic duo will be heading to Europe in April. 

UPCOMING TOUR DATES: 

APRIL 25th- Escenario, Santandar, Spain

APRIL 26th- Boite Live, Madrid, Spain

APRIL 27th- Anzokia, Bilboa, Spain

APRIL 28th- La Ley Seca, Zaragoza, Spain

APRIL 29th- RockSound, Barcelona, Spain

APRIL 30th- Loco Club, Valencia, Spain

Additional dates TBA 

LISTEN> The Sundowners Single Medicine + Tour Dates

The Sundowners self-titled debut will release 9th February 2015 via Skeleton Key Records and will tour the UK in support of the release, kicking off 10th February at - Leeds Oporto.

Recorded almost entirely live in Parr Street studios, Liverpool, over a 2 week period in the summer of 2014, the album was produced by James Skelly, Ian Skelly & Richard Turvey and reflects Fiona and Niamh's mutual love of psyche and west coast harmonies.

The 11-tracks of psyche-folk, harmony-heavy, well-crafted pop gems were in part inspired by the diverse and eclectic range of music the band listened to during recording - Goat, Tame Impala, Can, Neu!, Portishead, Air, Gillian Welch, Velvet Underground, Fairport Convention.

Now a formidable live act, the Wirral 5-piece benefit from an almost telepathic on-stage understanding born out of both Fiona & Niamh’s long-term friendship and the addition of Fiona’s brother, Alfie, on guitar.

The last 12-months have seen the band release a brace of limited edition singles, tour constantly playing alongside the likes of Cats Eyes & Kasabian and appear at both the All Tomorrow’s Parties and Glastonbury Festivals, where they played in the packed BBC Introducing tent.

Members: Lead Guitar - Alfie Skelly Vocals/Rythm Guitar - Niamh Rowe Vocals/Rythm Guitar - Fiona Skelly Bass Guitar - Tim Cunningham Drums - Jim Sharrock

A Trippy Self-Portait Charles Howl 'Going Down with a Hi'

London Brit-psych group &  Charles Howl release a new video for their single 'Going Down with a Hi' out on 02/23/2015 on Ample Play Records
Debut album 'Sir Vices' out 03/16/2015 Pre-order "Sir Vices" 

Comprising of 2 members of The Proper Ornaments, Charles Howl are some of the last children of the ‘80s, and with a britpop upbringing, it is no wonder they have produced an album that sounds like My Bloody Valentine channeling The Stone Roses, while maintaining a contemporary charm.  ‘Going Down With A Hi’ is a great introduction to some of their sound.