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Friday Full-Length: The Atomic Bitchwax, The Atomic Bitchwax
The Atomic Bitchwax, The Atomic Bitchwax (1999) I think it’s high time the ’90s era of heavy rock — the original run of stoner rock, that is — started to get tagged with the term classic. It’s been 20...
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Monster Magnet Post “When the Hammer Comes Down Video; Announce 2019 European...
Since Sept. 28, NJ’s Monster Magnet have been out on a US tour supporting their latest album, Mindfucker (review here). You can’t accuse them of not getting out. While their last couple records have...
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Friday Full-Length: Monster Magnet, Superjudge
Monster Magnet, Superjudge (1993) Lest we forget that as the West Coast was laying the groundwork for what would become the signature desert style over the next several years, back east, Monster Magnet...
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Solace Complete Recording; Confirm Tracklisting for New Album The Brink...
This is the second post I’ve made where it says Solace have finished recording their new album. Here’s the first. Sue me. Last time around, it was basic tracks that were done. This time, all the...
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Solace Premiere The Brink Album Teaser; Sign to Blues Funeral Recordings
The basic tracks are done (they posted the photo included here to celebrate), and New Jersey’s Solace are headed back into the studio in early August to mix. After that, mastering, then it’s on to...
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Monster Magnet Announce Powertrip European Tour
The year was 1998 and the band stomping all over hearts and minds in the most righteous fashion possible was Monster Magnet. The great heavy rock hope. A band who, over the next year-plus, would find...
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Solace: The Brink Preorders Available from Blues Funeral Recordings
New Jersey stalwarts-in-defiance-of-all-gods-and-all-sciences Solace — they of the broken bodies and suffering spirits — will release their first album in nine frickin’ years on Dec. 13. Titled The...
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Review & Track Premiere: Solace, The Brink
[Click play above to stream the premiere of ‘Waste People’ from Solace’s The Brink. Album is out Dec. 13 on Blues Funeral Recordings and available to preorder here.] You never know with Solace. Like...
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The Obelisk Presents: THE BEST OF 2019
[PLEASE NOTE: These are not the results of the year-end poll, which is ongoing. If you haven’t contributed your list to the cause yet, please do so here.] — Make no mistake, my friends. 2019 was the...
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Monster Magnet to Tour US Celebrating Powertrip Album
As they head abroad this week to begin a European tour centered around their Powertrip album that was announced last Fall, it seems only fair that Monster Magnet should announce their next run doing...
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The Atomic Bitchwax: Self-Titled 20th Anniversary Reissue Available
Once upon a 20 years ago, a tiny baby power trio out of a well-populated New Jersey heavy rock scene came together and blew the doors off most of not all of their peers. It was The Atomic Bitchwax,...
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Monster Magnet Reschedule ‘Celebration of Powertrip‘ Tour
New Jersey heavy psych/rockers Monster Magnet were due to start their ‘Celebration of Powertrip‘ US tour this coming Friday in Brooklyn. I’d been looking forward to it as I’m sure many others had. More...
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Monster Magnet Announce A Better Dystopia Covers LP out May 21
This announcement has been a while in the making and if you happen to follow Poobah on Facebook you already knew some of the info. Confirmation, however, is certainly welcome. And so it is that Napalm...
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Monster Magnet Post “Learning to Die” Lyric Video
Monster Magnet will unveil their covers collection, A Better Dystopia, on May 21 through Napalm Records, and following on from posting their take on Poobah‘s “Mr. Destroyer” with the initial...
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Album Review: Monster Magnet, A Better Dystopia
Monster Magnet‘s first covers record could just as easily have been a compilation. Over the band’s 30-plus years, they’ve taken on a range of artists and songs, from Black Sabbath, MC5, Grand Funk...
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Video Interview: Dave Wyndorf of Monster Magnet Talks A Better Dystopia
This interview begins in medias res because Dave Wyndorf begins in medias res. He’s going, and it’s up to the rest of us to keep up. Good luck. Somehow this image of the Monster Magnet founder and...
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Monster Magnet Post “Solid Gold Hell” Lyric Video
It’s not yet dawn. My coffee is lousy this morning. The medium roast has too much light in this grind. It’s bullshit on a grand scale. To console myself, I’ve put a Monster Magnet t-shirt in a cart on...
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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Justin Daniels of Solace
The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short...
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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Tim Cronin of The Ribeye Brothers
The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short...
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Monster Magnet to Reissue Monolithic Baby! and 4-Way Diablo Sept. 16
Kind of an interesting reframing happening here of Monster Magnet‘s 2007 album, 4-Way Diablo. Originally released like its exclamatory 2004 predecessor, Monolithic Baby! (discussed here), through...
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