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Author: Rob Walsh

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Review: Yawning Balch ‘Volume Three’

17th February 202520th February 2025 Rob Walsh Bob Balch, Desert Rock, Fu Manchu, Heavy Psych Sounds, Mario Lalli, Psych, Yawning Balch, Yawning Man

This January, Southern California – the region that both I and many stoner and desert rock artists call home –

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Top Ten Of 2024: Rob Walsh

20th December 202420th December 2024 Rob Walsh Abrams, Blood Incantation, delving, Dirtwire, Fu Manchu, Glass Beams, Hijss, Massive Hassle, Melvins, Sonolith, Top Ten 2024

Speaking only for myself, 2024 was a noticeable improvement over its predecessor. I got into better shape, got a lot

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Review: Gotho ‘Gothron Versus Fartark’

4th December 20244th December 2024 Rob Walsh Gotho, Supernatural Cat

Admit, you chuckled like the silly inner juvenile that you are at the name ‘Fartark’. The aforementioned name belongs to

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Review: Tidal Shock ‘Riffs Of Ha’

28th November 202428th November 2024 Rob Walsh Independent, Instrumental, Stoner, Tidal Shock

Based on the Greek island of Crete before relocating to Luxembourg during the pandemic, Tidal Shock are a rip-roaring instrumental

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Review: Yaryu ‘For Damage’

27th November 202427th November 2024 Rob Walsh Cardinal Fuzz Records, Centripetal Force Records, Jazz, Kraut, Ramble Records, Yaryu

The Land of the Rising Sun has no shortage of great jazz-related acts. Some of the best jazz I’ve heard

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All Them Witches & Emily Wolfe @ The Glass House, Pomona, 13th October 2024
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All Them Witches & Emily Wolfe @ The Glass House, Pomona, 13th October 2024

1st November 20241st November 2024 Rob Walsh All Them Witches, Emily Wolfe, Pomona, The Glass House

Tonight’s excursion takes us roughly an hour east of Los Angeles to the agricultural town of Pomona. It’s a fairly

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Review: Slower ‘Rage And Ruin’

31st October 20241st November 2024 Rob Walsh Doom, Heavy Psych Sounds, Slower

As I’ve stated previously, I feel Bob Balch is one of the best guitarists in the ‘stoner’ scene today. First

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Review: Sun & Sail Club ‘Shipwrecked’

18th October 202418th October 2024 Rob Walsh Crossover, Heavy Psych Sounds, Punk, Sun & Sail Club

Perhaps the ultimate SoCal desert supergroup outside of the Desert Sessions themselves, Sun & Sail Club have consistently ripped the

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Review: Bobbie Dazzle ‘Fandabidozi’

9th October 20249th October 2024 Rob Walsh Bobbie Dazzle, Heavy Rock, Rise Above Records

Everyone has their own way of dealing with tragedy. Some look inward, some look outwardly. Others opt for somber reflection

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Review: Elephant Tree ‘Handful Of Ten’

4th September 20244th September 2024 Rob Walsh Elephant Tree, Magnetic Eye Records

So much of what we love in this dense primordial soup of stoner rock and doom metal revolves around the

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Review: Dionize ‘Lighthouse’

28th August 202428th August 2024 Rob Walsh Argonauta Records, Dionize, Sludge, Stoner

I’ve always been in awe of the one-person musical act. Whether it was the work of Boston’s Tom Scholz and

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