Beyond the Wizards Sleeve

Can you guess #1? It’s not Bowie or Radiohead…

You may remember Australian singer-songwriter Martin Craft from his mid-’00s albums, like 2006’s Silver & Fire, which mixed gorgeous, Nick Drake-style baroque melodies, danceable rock, and jangly pop. M. Craft (his nom de plume) is back with Blood Moon, his first album in seven years, which is out this week (June 17) via Heavenly…

Beyond the Wizards Sleeve, aka the psych/dance duo of Erol Alkan and Richard Norris, will release their debut album, The Soft Bounce, on July 1…

It’s the dreamy new single from the psych/dance duo’s forthcoming album.

The polarities of Sunday’s rock-friendly bill are represented by Mac DeMarco and Savages. DeMarco is a nonchalant goofball whose slacker self-deprecation (“We got nothing else to do”) and wayward frazzle-rock suits the genial tempo of a blazingly hot afternoon…

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds‘ new single “Ballad of the Mighty I” has been “re-animated”, aka Erol Alkan and Richard Norris’ psychedelic disco collaboration that recently did similar work on Temples’ entire debut album…

Temples @ Austin Psych Fest 2014 (more by Tim Griffin) UK psych-pop combo Temples released their debut album back in February and one of its songs, “Move With the Season,” just got a signature “re-animation” (aka Erol Alkan and Richard Norris’s prog/pysch/kraut project)…