KING MUD announces Winter European dates

KING MUD Winter European Tour Dates :
February 8 @ DB’s — Utrecht, NL
February 9 @ Le Kalif — Rouen, FR
February 10 @ Le Galion — Lorient, FR
February 11 @ La Grange à Musique — Creil, FR
February 12 @ Le Sucre — Lyon, FR
February 13 @ Café De Swerver — Leffinge, BE
February 14 @ Mudd Cub — Strasbourg, FR
February 15 @ Bessunger Knabenschule — Darmstadt, DE
February 16 @ Festival Génériq/Le Bar de L’U — Besançon, FR
February 17 @ Festival Génériq/The Belfort Tattoo Family — Belfort, FR
February 18 @ Festival Génériq/Le Cellier de Clairvaux — Dijon, FR
February 19 @ La Malterie — Lille, FR
February 20 @ Bombshell — Clermont Ferrand, FR
February 21 @ Le Bootleg — Bordeaux, FR
February 22 @ Scène Michelet — Nantes, FR
February 23 @ La Mécanique Ondulatoire — Paris, FR
February 24 @ Fuzz’ Yon — La Roche Sur Yon, FR

VICTORY MOTEL SESSIONS press :
– As much pound as boogie, as much snarl as soul. – BLURT
– Every bit as filthy as the name suggests. – CLASSIC ROCK
– Righteously raucous blues bashin’. – ROOTS MUSIC REPORT
– Both men bring their A-game to the table. – THE BLUES
– It’s glorious, it’s fuzzy and its filthy. – MAXIMUM VOLUME
– I dare you not to dig it. – NO DEPRESSION
– Overflowing with impressive guitar riffs full of soul. – BLUES ROCK REVIEW
– Some serious, rich hard blues. – ELMORE MAGAZINE
– Raw, muscular and full of distorted hard blues rock. – THE FIRE NOTE
– This album stands out from the crowd. – VIVE LE ROCK
– No forms of traditional music (i.e the blues) were harmed in the making of this and no reputations damaged.
Go here without fear it will be worth your while. – I-94 BAR

NO DEPRESSION premieres MARK PORKCHOP HOLDER’S “My Black Name”

If the Rolling Stones camped with Howlin’ Wolf and Billy Gibbons on trucker speed for the weekend with a fuzz pedal, this would be its precious procreation. “My Black Name” is a charged up garage blues littered with succulent slide licks and tasty crunch, battling the demons that haunt a man’s reputation with war eyes and a big stick. – NO DEPRESSION HERE

Awesome SULFUR CITY review from the New York Music Daily

Slashing, Fearlessly Populist Classic Detroit-Style Rock from Sulfur City

Sulfur City evoke the hard-charging, uncompromising Murder City garage-punk intensity of Radio Birdman and Sonic’s Rendezvous Band, with elements of retro soul, psychedelia, a little funk and a fearlessly populist political sensibility. But they’re not from Detroit or Australia: they hail from Sudbury, in northeast Ontario. – READ THE REVIEW HERE

Nice review of DATURA4 “Hairy Mountain” from The VINYL DISTRICT

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This Western Australian four-piece specializes in psych-blues-boogie, and they’ve been cited as extending the musical mores of their countrymen Buffalo, The Aztecs, and Coloured Balls; featuring the dual guitars of Dom Mariani (of the Stems and DM3) and Greg Hitchcock (who was briefly in the New Christs), this sophomore effort shines brightest in direct proportion to its pedal-induced amp burn, of which there is a surplus. The songs are more than just vessels for flights of controlled distortion though, and the rhythm section hits hard throughout. – THE VINYL DISTRICT

★★★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