First proper album review for Shapes Unravel over at The Obelisk! JJ at the Obelisk is the only writer who has written a review for every one of our albums. Thanks @jjkoczan.bsky.social !
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Why now? The Monsignor of Heavy, @jjkoczan.bsky.social has been running through Fu Manchu's discography, and made the point I made above far more expansively and elegantly here: theobelisk.net/obelisk/2026... /11
Resonance and texture are not new elements in the work of Oregonian heavy psychedelic Americana explorers Abronia. Indeed, one could argue their principal stylistic declarations were made nine years a...
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The early aughts were a weird time to be in a rock and roll band. The landscape had changed and was changing. Sadly, Y2K didn’t wipe out all the computers in the world, and the digital sphere — expand...
@jjkoczan.bsky.social at The Obelisk has the low-down on @novemberfiretheband's new single "Abigail", out May 8th!
The Obelisk will be hosting the single's premiere May 7th. Stay tuned for psychedelic sludge and sci-fi madness
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So, I didn’t know it at the time, but in between slating this news story for the November Fire single “Abigail” being released May 8 ahead of the Massachusetts sludge weirdos’ new album, Doom Blues, i...
@jjkoczan.bsky.social at The Obelisk has the scoop on the whole shebang of Deathbird Earth material heading to planet earth over the next couple months on SRA Records
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It's a doom folk kind of year, and no finer support than @jjkoczan.bsky.social at The Obelisk is here to tell you so.
@buzzarddoomfolk.bsky.social's "Everything Is Not Going To Be Alright" is Short Release of the Year, and "Satiricus Doomicus Americus" is #8 AOTY!
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I was fortunate enough to catch wind of Philly duo Deathbird Earth‘s Mission demo (review here) last year, and was glad I did for the weirdoblast anti-genre take on offer. The band’s debut album, Obje...
Rolls the River's debut single featured on @jjkoczan.bsky.social's The Obelisk Quarterly Review!
"...a sub-five-minute cosmic reachout, obviously schooled in where it’s coming from — that is to say, one doesn’t krautrock by accident; it is a form to adopt and refine"
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Bronco Forte (All Hail the Yeti, Batillus members) share 1st single from upcoming album Lightning Scars via @jjkoczan.bsky.social
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Liam Neeson is Curzon Dax in a show about Federation diplomacy and political intrigue during the TOS era, and he drinks and carouses and is also brilliant. We see Klingons of the day and Romulans and others, meet a young Ensign Sisko at the end of season 1, and find the gold heart beneath it all.
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New Buzzard single and b/side premiere up now thanks to @jjkoczan.bsky.social Hear here:
#metalsky
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@jjkoczan.bsky.social at The Obelisk has the skinny on Rolls The River debut track "Love of Driving", out this Friday!
Krautrock? Check.
Psych? Check.
Name that river? 🕵️
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