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Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]
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I first became aware of Flower Travellin’ Band as the dudes riding motorcycles naked on the cover of Julian Cope’s book “Japrocksampler: How the Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock ‘n’ Roll”. Â As striking as this image is, what really hooked me on this band was hearing their masterpiece album, Satori. Long before Boris, FTB was creating heavy psyche rock from the land of the rising sun. Â Imagine my surprise when I saw that they are on tour in the states. Â Out of all the kooked-out music biz bullshit that goes on at SXSW, here is something that is actually interesting, but surely will not make headlines for hipster music blogs next week. Â Flower Travellin’ Band plays Smokin’ Music @ 504 Trinity St. on March 19th during SXSW with certain followers Endless Boogie, Entrance Band and Radio Moscow. Â Try and look it up here. Now will someone please book a Los Angeles show!!!??? Pentagram reunion too, please.
Cool FTB video with music from Satori...