Riot Season Archives - The Sleeping Shaman

Scum rock as a genre label usually conjures up images of GG Allin, The Mentors, and The Dwarves, intentionally disgusting

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Review: Hibushibire ‘Phantom Fuzzy Exotica’

25th August 202626th August 2026 Matthew Williams Hibushibire, Psych, Riot Season

I had the utmost pleasure of watching and reviewing Osaka’s best-kept secret Hibushibire when they played at The Peer Hat

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Review: Kevin ‘It Is What It Is’

21st August 202622nd August 2026 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Kevin, Kraut, Psych, Riot Season

There’s something strangely hypnotic about It Is What It Is, the new album from Osaka, Japan’s experimental psych krautrock band

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Video Premiere: Louse ‘Best Laid Plans’ – New Album ‘Buyer’s Remorse’ Lands 14th August

22nd July 202622nd July 2026 Lee Edwards Louse, Noise-Rock, Riot Season, Scum Rock

Newcastle upon Tyne’s heavy scum noise-rock purveyors, Louse, are preparing to unleash another dose of unrefined sonic filth with their

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Review: Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders ‘Liquid Donnon’

16th July 202616th July 2026 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Acid Rock, Feeding Tube Records, Jeffrey Alexander, Psych, Riot Season, The Heavy Lidders

Step inside the musical universe of Philadelphia native Jeffrey Alexander, as I did, and you enter a world at once

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Video Premiere: Black Helium ‘Up On A Hill’ – New Album ‘The Animals Are Coming’ Drops Friday

16th June 202516th June 2025 Lee Edwards Black Helium, Psych, Riot Season

Step into a kaleidoscopic fever dream with the premiere of Up On A Hill, the latest mind-warping transmission from London’s

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Review: Black Helium ‘The Animals Are Coming’

13th June 202513th June 2025 Matthew Williams Black Helium, Psych, Riot Season

Even back in my craziest party days during the hedonistic late ‘80s and early to mid ‘90s, I was never

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Review: Louse ‘Creep Call’

28th October 202428th October 2024 Martin Williams Louse, Noise-Rock, Riot Season, Scum Rock

In the single-note riff-bludgeon department comes Creep Call, the debut album from Newcastle upon Tyne’s Louse, who share both members,

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Review: Ivan The Tolerable Quintet ‘Water Music’

4th September 20244th September 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Ambient, Ivan The Tolerable Quintet, Jazz, Riot Season

The experimental, free-jazz-oriented album Vertigo from Middlesbrough’s eclectic multi-instrumentalist Oli Heffernan, released under the moniker of Ivan The Tolerable Quintet,

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Video Premiere: Louse ‘You Don’t Eat The Bull’ – Debut Album ‘Creep Call’ Drops 4th October

28th August 202428th August 2024 Lee Edwards Louse, Noise-Rock, Riot Season, Scum Rock

Are you ready to dive headfirst into the sonic chaos that is Newcastle upon Tyne’s scum rock deviants Louse? You

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Review: Ivan The Tolerable Quintet ‘Vertigo’

22nd August 20244th September 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Ivan The Tolerable Quintet, Jazz, Kraut, Riot Season

The musical journey of Oli Heffernan, the experimental multi-instrumentalist from Middlesbrough, UK who performs under the moniker Ivan The Tolerable,

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