The Warlocks
Indeed, it's been a long strange trip for Warlocks leader Bobby Hecksher since his band played their first gig on July 4th, 1998. Hecksher, who moved to California from Florida in the late '80s, formed his first group shortly after arriving. Charles Brown Superstar issued two singles and two full-length albums before calling it a day. Hecksher was later invited to play on Beck's Stereo Pathetic Soul Manure (Flipside), then -- along with James Ambrose -- formed Magic Pacer, who waxed two albums for Win Records before Hecksher splintered off to d...[more]
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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of The Mirror Explodes and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Where the band's last long player Heavy Deavy Skull Lover tweaked time in an icy-cool, white noise swirl that evoked a decadent lysergic night, this effort is disorientation through a longer lens - pictures of luck, longing, losing, moods and fever dreams scrambled in the haze of near and distant memory. The Warloc [ read more ]
LP $16.99
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The Phoenix Album should come with tokens for a black light, lava lamp, and free pass to a Warhol exhibit, but it doesn't, and really there's no need for these accouterments, as the Warlocks magically conjure up the entire '60s experience from the power of their music alone. Their talisman is the Velvet Underground, and yes, listeners have been here before, with the likes of the Jesus & Mary Chain and Sonic Youth, but the Warlocks are truer to the soul of the Velvets than either of t [ read more ]
CD $11.38
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Surgery sees the band return with a more dynamic, almost accessible pop sound and its twelve songs are without doubt their most ambitious and infectious to date. An otherworldly, subversive soul record it has a ghostly grace which mixes soothing sci-fi lullabies such as 'Gypsy Nightmare' and the gorgeous doo-wop of 'Angels In Heaven, Angels in Hell'' with their trademark characteristic rohypnol rock-outs. There's the intensity of 'Suicide', the black humoured nod to illness on 'The Tangent' ("I got s [ read more ]
CD $12.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Always shrouded in mystery and dressed in black, this once octet known for their signature sound and live shows and compared a million times to the Velvet Underground have always done the unexpected. The new trimmed-down line-up, once known for taking long, meticulous recording sessions into hell has banged out this new record within weeks. Recorded by Rod Cervera (Weezer, Lavender Diamond, Young People, Silversun Pickups).
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Where the band's last long player Heavy Deavy Skull Lover tweaked time in an icy-cool, white noise swirl that evoked a decadent lysergic night, this effort is disorientation through a longer lens - pictures of luck, longing, losing, moods and fever dreams scrambled in the haze of near and distant memory. The Warlock's signature amalgam of White Light/White Heat attack, space panoramas, fuzz, melancholy, and melody is present and potent, but there's vivid focus too. Throbbing bass lines, distan [ read more ]
CD $13.99
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Where the band's last long player Heavy Deavy Skull Lover tweaked time in an icy-cool, white noise swirl that evoked a decadent lysergic night, this effort is disorientation through a longer lens - pictures of luck, longing, losing, moods and fever dreams scrambled in the haze of near and distant memory. The Warlock's signature amalgam of White Light/White Heat attack, space panoramas, fuzz, melancholy, and melody is present and potent, but there's vivid focus too. Throbbing bass lines, distan [ read more ]
MP3 $10.49
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This nine-member group -- which includes two drummers and four guitarists -- often focuses heavily on dark, amphetamine-fueled hard rock skree and titanic singular-riff freakouts (the jagged, sawtooth guitars of the Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" seem to be a huge influence). What's surprising, however, is that Rise and Fall kicks off and nearly reaches its apogee with the first track, "Jam of the Witches," which clocks in at nearly 15 minutes (and more than twice the length of a similarly [ read more ]
CD $15.18
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Four guitarists, two drummers, a bassist, and a tambourine jam on repetitive riffs and rhythms to amass a wall of white noise that shoots directly to your reptilian brain. Bobby Hecksher's Warlocks continue a musical trajectory that he began while working with Beck in his early days and then with the Rolling Stones-worshipping Brian Jonestown Massacre. "Cocaine Blues" is the standout on the wholly brilliant EP The Warlocks. Its intricately woven guitar lines twist under {$Bobby Hecksher [ read more ]
CD $13.28
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The psychedelic-drenched Los Angeles group's underlying modus operandi is to "conjure up music as an experience." Both live and recorded, lead vocalist/guitarist Bobby Hecksher -- along with a six- to eight-member entourage -- transform jams into something tangible, much like avant-garde Suicide and space rockers Spiritualized have been known to do. The five-song mini-album almost merits full-length status, as it clocks over an hour in length. The seven-minute "Stone Hearts" is the most me [ read more ]
CD $9.48
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Always shrouded in mystery and dressed in black, this once octet known for their signature sound and live shows and compared a million times to the Velvet Underground have always done the unexpected. The new trimmed-down line-up, once known for taking long, meticulous recording sessions into hell has banged out this new record within weeks. Recorded by Rod Cervera (Weezer, Lavender Diamond, Young People, Silversun Pickups).
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This nine-member group -- which includes two drummers and four guitarists -- often focuses heavily on dark, amphetamine-fueled hard rock skree and titanic singular-riff freakouts (the jagged, sawtooth guitars of the Velvet Underground's Sister Ray seem to be a huge influence). What's surprising, however, is that [ read more ]
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