By turns pummeling and pastoral, MAGNIFICENT FIEND oscillates between roaring, all-stops-out, Hammond organ-driven tracks and delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized, often dissonant guitar lines. Toss in counter-melodic bass, sometimes quirky breaks, and extended instrumental sequences that are either ascending to the heavens or cascading softly, softly from the skies in sparkling showers of gunpowder and smoke. All held together by Miller's distinctive, crushed-velvet roar - redol   [ read more ]

CD $12.99

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VINYL FORMAT. Having recorded a fistful of critically acclaimed--and increasingly successful--albums with neo-psychedelic pioneers Comets On Fire, frontman Ethan Miller lit out for fresh musical territories somewhere between the Santa Cruz, CA-based band's familiar maelstrom and a more organic, melodic, groove-oriented rock that hearkens back to his halcyon daze growing up on California's "Lost Coast" (Humboldt County), home of lumberjacks, college students, unreconstructed hippies, and off-the-grid botanis   [ read more ]

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Howlin Rain came together with the intention of making a good, old-fashioned, free-wheeling rock album with a bared soul and a body that hangs joy, hysteria and darkness on the same rambling bones. They play unfiltered music in all its grit and all its glory; music to beat the steering wheel of your van to or sing along with while drinking whiskey in the bathtub with your dog on a Saturday night. This the debut release of free-wheelin' rock jams from Ethan Miller (Comets on Fire) and John Moloney (Sunburned   [ read more ]

CD $14.99

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VINYL FORMAT. Howlin Rain's Wild Life consists of two fifteen minute plus monster jams. The first is an amazingly inspired and completely improvised wailing twin guitar, rock meditation on Paul McCartney's "Wild Life." "Black Sangria" rounds out the disc with a completely improvised piece covered in heavy jazz fusion and free, latin jazz rock overtones. The band featured a slightly different lineup for these session (as compared to the band's current touring setup), a lineup that in part feels like a   [ read more ]

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Howlin Rain came together with the intention of making a good, old-fashioned, free-wheeling rock album with a bared soul and a body that hangs joy, hysteria and darkness on the same rambling bones. They play unfiltered music in all its grit and all its glory; music to beat the steering wheel of your van to or sing along with while drinking whiskey in the bathtub with your dog on a Saturday night. This the debut release of free-wheelin' rock jams from Ethan Miller (Comets on Fire) and John Moloney (Sunburned   [ read more ]

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