Man Or Astro-Man

“It’s been a minute,” Man or Astro-Man? bassist Coco the Electronic Monkey Wizard told an excited Midwest crowd, right before ripping into another crazily loud, unhinged garage-surf number. Coco (government name: Robert del Bueno) could have been speaking figuratively – cursory research leads this reporter to believe t

Imagine the outcome that would occur if you locked Dick Dale in room with copious amounts of LSD, a couple of guitars and a VCR that continually played early space film from the 60’s and 70’s, then asked him to write a score.

Wray (photos by Donte Kirby) Wray is a three piece from Birmingham with a trance-like psychedelic sound and a bit of a kick to it.

The Roxy, Los Angeles, USA

I know we’re all a little jaded when it comes to reformed bands of yesteryear, and I realize it’s old hat to marvel at the necromantic power of the internet and its globalized fan bases to resuscitate underappreciated groups of past decades , but still, I’m a little nonplussed that the new

‘Twas of no matter, because they blew our brains out anyway with the set opener “Anti-Matter Man” (one of only a few vocal numbers sung this night by guitarist Starcrunch) and began the countdown to fun from which we mindless masses almost didn’t recover. We did manage midway through the set to disperse a gag

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