Tag: Diablo Red

  • Pill-poppers and head-trippers, put this one on yer neon-green radar screen!

    As I’ve previously remarked, The 460 might not be El Mocambo, but it’s the next-door thing. This evening, the hole-in-the-wall bar is hosting a couple instrumental psychedelic-rock outfits that’ll expand yer mind–and they’re both from right here in yer backyard!

  • Man, Electric Magma’s still got it, man…

    Last nite was the first time I’d been to the Bovine Sex Club in nearly 10 months.  I can’t say I really missed the place, but I do miss some of the bands I used to see there regularly from 2006 to 2008.  Though it was never really known as the home for Toronto’s heavy…

  • Grifter – s/t

    Man, these guys have really nailed this style down. Anyone who digs Clutch, Bulletwolf, Orange Goblin’s more recent stuff, Diablo Red, COC, WCO, hell, KISS at their heaviest, or any of the fine bluesy psychedelic rarities previously unearthed by Ripple Music will wanna sink their teeth into this.

  • The End of an Era (fuck, am I really reusing this headline!?)

    They say all things must come to pass, but lately, they’ve been passing like a 300-pounder with a spastic colon passes gas. First, there was the mysterious disappearance of StonerRock.com, the website that every heavy rock site aspired to be. Then, the off-again, on-again, off-the-air CKLN saga, which led to the end of Smokin’ Green…

  • Gideon Smith & the Dixie Damned – 30 Weight

    Not quite what I expected, sort of a subpar Danzig I with a coupla country-fried tunes tacked on to the end.