Tag: Kyuss

  • Nick Oliveri goes it alone. With help.

    Nick Oliveri goes it alone. With help.

    In music, as is the case in life, sometimes it’s important to strike out on your own – if only to see what you’re capable of. The uncertainty of such a daring break away from the known and the safety associated with it makes the rewards that much sweeter when they come; not for nothing…

  • John Garcia – John Garcia

    John Garcia – John Garcia

    John Garcia. John fuckin’ Garcia. There is no voice more synonymous with stoner rock or desert rock than that of John Garcia. Best known as the singer for genre progenitors Kyuss, he’s been a part of a number of projects since that band’s dissolution almost 20 years ago. While Kyuss may always cast a shadow…

  • Nick Oliveri’s Uncontrollable – Leave Me Alone

    Nick Oliveri’s Uncontrollable – Leave Me Alone

    It sounds a little unlikely on its face, but sometimes you just know what you’re going to get from an album, even if it’s a band’s first record. That is certainly true of Leave Me Alone, billed as Nick Oliveri‘s first solo album. From top to bottom, listeners will be able to pick out familiar…

  • Sasquatch – IV

    By Gruesome Greg Album number four from these Small Stone stoner vets shows that they haven’t lost their grooves after all these years—12, to be exact. Ever the pulsating, pounding, head-nodding goodness is what you’ll find inside. This outfit leans more towards the straight-forward Fu Manchu style, as opposed to the tripped-out psychedelic grooves of…

  • Chron Goblin – Life for the Living

    Don’t get me wrong, [Chron Goblin] could still be considered desert rock (hell, they even crossed the pond and played Desertfest), but there’s a bit more of a bluesy influence here, a little more up-tempo approach—but with some very heavy riffs thrown in for good measure.

  • “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Kyuss!”

    Well OK, maybe I can. But either way, Vista Chino put on a pretty solid set at The Phoenix last night.

  • Vista Chino – Peace

    Hellbound Metal: “The bare bones are still there, you get the sense that this is vaguely familiar, but in the end, it’s probably for the best that they didn’t slap the old name on here, cuz it definitely pales by comparison.”

  • La Chinga – self-titled

    Hellbound Metal: These guys may not be reinventing the wheel, but as practitioners of the world’s oldest profession, I can dig their modern take on classic rock… ¡Chinga tu madre!

  • Devil to Pay – Fate is Your Muse

    Hellbound Metal: In any case, they might have flown under the radar for some time, but this album proves that if you sleep on this Indy outfit, well, payback is a bitch. 😉

  • Thinking Back To… SXSW 1998

    Thinking Back To… SXSW 1998

    Sean Palmerston thinks back to his first SXSW festival experience back in 1998, featuring Shallow North Dakota, QOTSA and Man’s Ruin Records