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Bay Area guitar/drums duo Black Cobra is another one of them sludgy power trios and stoner duos like Om, Big Business, Weedeater & High on Fire.

.. Yet bearing the droning tamboura of Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe aka Lichens enough that holy day, the opener Thebes became a most rewarding song, turning day into night in Egypt where dervishes summon higher spirits…

Here are some of the highlights in the key of lo-fi punk from Not Not Fun all star band Vibes, Ganglians, SF’s Brilliant Colors and also stoner rock band Eternal Tapestry and Ducktails’ Matt Mondanile’s indie rock band Real Estate.

God, these lyrics by the stoner rock duo-turned-trio Big Business are great, even though I don’t really get what he’s ranting about.

One of the most frequented bands here on undomondo is Portland rockers Grails. Somehow they manage to more than one release each year and we feel like you wanna hear all about them, because they deserve it.

I’ve been listening to more and more rock these days because there’s a slew of creative stuff coming out on smaller labels. Take Steel Mammoth a band who describes themselves with the following passage : “A lonesome engine cries, howling in the cruel crüel night! Nuclear nightmare, atomic style! Shadow barbarians with lazer eyes, radiation village, the black fire burning bright!

Now here’s a release without enough coverage. Cave-in vocalist/guitarist Stephen Brodsky’s new project alongside two guys named Johnny Coolbreeze and JR. Pet Genius is generally labeled as stoner rock and with influences like Pabst Blue Ribbon, Marijuana and Uncontrollable Libidos, you’re sure to make some kind of stoner rock. However this is not your traditional riff oriented and repetitive stoner rock as say Om or Sleep.

15 Battles – Mirrored (Warp Records) : Everybody’s been talking about “Mirrored” this year, and they kind of deserve it for getting their oddtimed dissonant music to find strange acclaim from mainstream circles as well as mathheads.
14 Deejay OM – Reheated Naan and Curry (Galapagos4) : A fine hybrid of Indian samples mixed with beats. Somehow liked it much more than Madlib’s take. Past