Psychedelic rock is kind of like pornography, you know what it is when you see it. The Beach Boy's sunshine-soaked pop and the 13th Floor Elevators grimy riffs don't have much in common, yet an iTunes genre-grid can't seem to tell them apart. But however you choose to define psychedelic music, the tag certainly [...]

Grizzly Bear has caught some flack on this blog, but the jury was still out for me going into last night’s show. I bought Yellow House a few weeks ago, and while I had listened to it through a few times and found it intriguing (if not exactly catchy), I was not convinced enough to [...]