Author Archives: Dirty Jeff
Mickey Hart of Grateful Dead interview with DHR!
DHR’s Jeff Vincent had the great pleasure of interviewing the legendary Mickey Hart of The Grateful Dead. Wait, great pleasure? Yeah right, more like explosive experience! We talked mostly about cosmic music humming through the endless universe.
“There’s 2 elements… music of the whole earth… And the music of the cosmos… that I’ve been sampling from the radiation of the epic events in the universe… From The Big Bang, when God put his foot down and the great groove began.”
Okay, that’s [...]
Terrapin interview with Free Download of Innermachine LP
Terrapin – innermachine. Cover art by Andrew Wilson.
There’s a wistful mystique surrounding this wonderful album by LA/So Cal psychedelic, shoegazey rock band The Terrapin. As the LP followup to their Kill… EP, innermachine captures the band at both its creative height and melancholy parting of ways.
“The innermachine line-up of the band reached a point where it became difficult for the interpersonal to be separate from the music,” shares Rufo Chan, drummer of The Terrapin. “It was [...]
Torches preview of new LP Heads Full Of Rust
Don’t know if it’s the virility of spring or what, but lately we’re being fantastically loaded up with advance albums, EPs, and singles. And we dig it!
South Pasadena psychedelic indie rock band Torches (formerly Torches In Trees) has graciously thrown 3 tracks our way from their forthcoming debut full-length Heads Full Of Rust, which drops May 20, 2012. Details below for the release party.
“Heads Full Of Rust” Record Release @ The Satellite May 20 w/ Manhattan Murder Mystery, Joey Siara [...]
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real new LP Wasted added to DHR!
Here at DHR, we’re well known for specializing our focus on bands who may not necessarily receive the widespread attention they deserve based on the quality of their music. And we love it; we love it, and want you to know about it and love it too, that’s why we do it. All the same, it so happens that we also boast some huge names as well – cats like Dr. John, Kirk Fletcher (Dirty Dozen Brass Band), Groundation, Fat [...]
The Spyrals epnymous debut LP on Mock Records, advance copy playing on DHR!
The Spyrals, out on Mock Records.
We’re proud to announce the inclusion of San Franciscan psychedelic outfit The Spyrals on DHR, courtesy of Los Angeles indie record label Mock Records. This is a double whammy, marking the debut full-length release for both The Spyrals and Mock Records. We’re exceedingly honored to feature an advance copy in our mix.
The Spyrals are pulsating with a strong neo-psychedelic appeal, echoing mid-late 1960′s garage and psych with surf undertones –ala The Great Society, Afterglow, [...]
The Brothers Comatose new LP Respect The Van advance release on DHR
The band’s interests include, “Banging away on stringed instruments. Singing. Beer. Camping. Hiking. Drinking coffee. Listening to records. Road trips.” We’re so already there…
They’re The Brothers Comatose, and they’re generating some seriously professional music from San Francisco, CA. In conjunction with two dog media, these fine fellows have provided DHR with an advance copy of their new LP “Respect The Van,” due out May 22, 2012. It’s bluegrass, man; it’s folk, old-time, and country; it’s “A Damn Good Time with [...]
Moon Block Party Presents: Desert Daze Festival
We are dumbfounded and nearly speechless by the sheer magnitude and brilliance of this momentous event. Our hats are off, and our pull-string beards down, to Moon Block Party for procuring Desert Daze Festival. With more bands than we care to count (maybe like 100 or something), the whole shebang runs 11 days strong at Dillon’s Roadhouse in Desert Hot Springs, Ca. Entry is free with a $5 donation suggested! Unbelievable. Gorgeous.
As it all began a week ago on Apr. [...]
DHR’s Latin Playlist on KXLU’s Levitation Radio
We’ve received several requests for Jeff’s playlist from his recent special edition Latin Psych and Brasilian Tropicalia hour on KXLU’s Levitation Radio. So, for those who care, here it is. (Set 1-2 is actually what we played live on air; Set 3-4 is what more we’d planned, but ran out of time.)
Set 1
Foto De Primera Comunion (Los Jaivas, Chile, 1971)
Que Me Importa (Miguel y el Comite, Uruguay, 1971)
Porque Hoy Naci (Manal, Argentina, 1970)
The Sand Man (Laghonia, Peru, 1971)
Back (The Spiders, [...]
Brook and River and their small smiles
There’s something called small smiles. It’s a quirky approach to smiling, in which the smiler attempts to suppress the smile to a restricted breadth. It sounds silly, and it is, maybe even eerie, like something from The Twilight Zone; but it’s also quite difficult to achieve, the primary obstacle being laughter. To simply not smile largely seems to affect the opposite, and the act of smiling small usually ends with a giggle. While the small sensation may not be sweeping [...]
