Jim Diamond

The Sonics releasing first new LP in nearly 50 years (listen to a song), touring with 2 NYC-area shows + BV presale

Seattle garage rock legends The Sonics are back with This is the Sonics, the band’s first new album in almost 50 years. Original members Jerry Roslie (keyboards/vocals), Larry Parypa (guitar/vocals) and Rob Lind (sax/harmonicavocals), along with bassist Freddie Dennis (the Kingsmen, the Liverpool Five) and drummer Dusty Watson (Dick Dale, Agent Orange), went into Seattle’s Soundhouse Studios with producer Jim Diamond (The White Stripes, Dirtbombs) for the new album which was recorded in mono and retains that essential Sonics grime and grit…

The Cambodian Space Project are here (with Jim Diamond), playing three shows in NYC

Channthy was working at one of these karaoke bars when she met Julien Poulsen, a musician from Tasmania. Poulsen played Channthy psychedelic rock songs from famous Cambodian singers from the 60s and 70s, like Pan Ron and Ros Sereysothea, Khmer musicians who were influenced by western music introduced by GI’s during the Vietnam War…