★★★½ 3 and half star review for DATURA4 “Hairy Mountain” from ALL MUSIC

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The 2016 sophomore studio long-player from the bluesy Aussie psych-rockers, Hairy Mountain delivers another muscular blast of lovingly retooled classic rock that bristles with electric, down-under eccentricity. Similar in tone to the Sword, Thin Lizzy, Cream, Electric Wizard, and Blue Öyster Cult-loving High Country that, like Datura4’s debut, arrived the year prior, Hairy Mountain ultimately transcends its reliance on genre tropes by delivering those familiar melodic turns and road trip-ready backbeats with supreme gusto. – James Christopher Monger / ALL MUSIC

RADIO MOSCOW’S “Live! In California” – Best Heavy Psych Album of the Year via New York Music Daily

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Do you love Jimi Hendrix? Heavy psychedelic power trio Radio Moscow, San Diego’s best export since Karla Rose, are the closest approximation for those of us who missed the 60s.

Guitarist Parker Griggs echoes Hendrix in the purest sense possible, faster than you can say “Frank Marino.” Hendrix was a noisy player, and so is this guy. He takes a whole bunch of ideas springboarded by Jimi – playing off a root note a full step below the octave; letting a phrase bleed out in a pool of hammer-ons, leaving the natural reverb all the way up, and doing all sorts of deviously trippy things with feedback – without being blatantly derivative. – READ THE ARTICLE HERE

JAMES LEG announces European dates

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12/16 – FR – Strasbourg – Molodoi
1/17 – FR – La Rochelle – La Sirène
1/18 – FR – Nantes – Stereolux
1/19 – FR – Vannes – Jam Session
1/20 – FR – Angers – Le Chabada
1/21 – FR – Bordeaux – Le Krakatoa
1/22 – FR – Melle – Café Boulevard
1/23 – FR – Poitiers – Le Cluricaume
1/24 – FR – Lille – Le Diablo
1/25 – FR – Paris – Petit Bain
1/26 – FR – Mont De Marsan – Le Café Music
1/27 – FR – Rouen – Le 106
1/28 – FR – Saint Germain En Laye – La Clef
2/16 – CH – Geneva – TBC
2/17 – FR – Lyon – Le Sonic
2/18 – CH – Bules – Ebullition
2/19 – FR – Belfort – Le New Tone
2/21 – FR – Clermont-Ferrand – Le Raymond Bar
2/22 – FR – Montpeilier – Le Black Sheep
2/23 – FR – Valence – Mistral Palace
2/24 – FR – Auxerre – Le Silex
2/25 – FR – Arles – Le Cargot de Nuit
3/3 – DE – Stuttgart – Goldmarks
3/4 – DE – Rosenheim – ASTA
3/7 – DE – Hannover – Cafe Glocksee
3/9 – DE – Freiburg – Great Räng Teng Teng
3/10 – DE – Munich – Garage DeLuxe
3/12 – DE – Berlin – Cortina Bob
3/13 – DE – Rostock – JAZ
3/15 – SW – Växjö – Kafé de Luxe
3/16 – SW – Kristianstad – Biljardkompaniet
3/17 – SW – Lindesberg – Salute
3/18 – SW – Tranås – Plan B
3/19 – SW – Stockholm – Southside Cavern
3/21 – SW – Östersund – Captain Cook
3/22 – NO – Trondheim – Moskus
3/23 – NO – Oslo – Buckleys
3/24 – SW – Göteborg – Truckstop Alaska
3/25 – SW – Höganäs – Garage Bar
4/29 – FR – Epinal – La Souris Verte

★★★★ 4 star review of JAMES LEG “Blood On the Keys” from the TORONTO SUN

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How do you like your blues? Southern-fried, soaked in bourbon and served with plenty of punk? Well, you’re in luck. That’s exactly what juke-joint singer-organist Leg is cooking up on his third album — though he spices things up with some violin-fuelled gypsy-rock sides and gritty boogie. As usual, everything comes topped with his Waitisian rumble. Dig in. – READ THE REVIEW HERE