Electric Citizen to release their fourth album via Heavy Psych Sounds

The release of the fourth Electric Citizen album from Cincinnati's Ross & Laura Dolan will be preceded by a single on April 16th.

Seven years after the release of Electric Citizen's Helltown (Riding Easy Records, 2018) LP, Ross Dolan (guitar), Laura Dolan (vocals), Nick Vogelpohl (bass), Nate Wagner (drums) and Owen Lee (keyboards) return with their fourth album, a powerful statement of renewal and raw energy. Pre-orders will begin on April 16th from Heavy Psych Sounds (right here). HPS seems like exactly the right place for Electric Citizen who'll now be in the company of Dead Meadow, Nebula, Pentagram, Brant Bjork, Mondo Generator, Nick Oliveri, The Lords Of Altamont, Orchid, Stöner, Los Natas, Mr. Bison, Lord Elephant, High Reeper, Tons, Ungraven, Witchcraft, Warlung, Nightstalker, Yawning Balch and numerous other hellaciously whumpin' psych and stoner rock bands. 

Sez Laura Dolan: "No more waiting. On April 16th, we release our first single in 7 years. We’ve missed you!"

Electric Citizen is a Cincinnati-based heavy rock band known for their fuzzed-out riffs, haunting melodies, and electrifying live shows. Since forming in 2012, they've carved out a distinct sound, blending vintage psychedelia with heavy rock 'n' roll. With three acclaimed albums under their belt, they've toured extensively, sharing stages with acts like The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Pentagram, and Fu Manchu. 

For more information about Electric Citizen, you can visit their site right here. Check out the Bandcamp page for past releases right here or via iTunes over here. Watch a couple of interviews with Ross and Laura Dolan followed by some footage of Electric Citizen in action and listen to 2018's Helltown album below. Catch 'em live with Moonbow in Cincinnati at the Northside Tavern on June 8th. Here's the FB event page. 

Kyuss members Brant Bjork & Nick Oliveri reunite as Stöner

Stöner release their Stoners Rule debut album via Heavy Psych Sounds on June 25th. Check out two versions of "Rad Stays Rad"

Brant Bjork, Ecstatic Vision, Ian Blurton's Future Now @ Lee's Palace, Wednesday

A few months back, Kyuss co-founder Brant Bjork released his Jacoozzi recording from 2010 which you can check out below followed by his Rockpalast show. 

Brant Bjork – Jacoozzi (Heavy Psych Sounds)
"Back in December of 2010, I went into a house in Joshua Tree California to record another solo record. About 4 days into the sessions, I decided to abandon the 8 songs I was working on, told my long time friend and engineer, Tony Mason, to start rolling tape and I proceeded to play drums in my natural improv style.

"After multiple drum track performances were captured, I then started layering guitars, bass and percussion in the same improvisational spirit. I essentially decided to "jam" by myself for the rest of my scheduled sessions. When the recording session had finally come to an end, I put the 8 unfinished tracks on the "shelf" as well as my "solo jam session" tracks. I was much more content with the "jam" tracks as it was a creative release that was needed at that time. I decided to call the collective tracks, Jacoozzi.

"At the time, it reminded me of the feeling of my first solo recording sessions for my first solo release, Jalamanta.... only more "free". At that time in 2010, I had no formal plans to release any of the music from those sessions....Jacoozzi included."  – Brant Bjork

Get a copy of Jacoozzi right here. Listen below.

Nebula comes storming back with "Witching Hour"

"Witching Hour" is off Nebula's way overdue new album, Holy Shit, out now on Italy's Heavy Psych Sounds label. 

Nebula are back! Twenty-two years after their first release and 10 years after their last, 2009’s Heavy Psych, and the new Holy Shit album should put to rest the question that’s loomed since guitarist/vocalist Eddie Glass, bassist Tom Davies and drummer Michael Amster announced the band’s reformation in 2017. Yep, Nebula are still Nebula. Listen to "Witching Hour" below.

Since the days of 1998’s Let it Burn EP and the now-classic To the Center debut album, Nebula have always been just a little more dangerous. Just a little more unhinged. Holy Shit shows this front-to-back for the essential part of their character it is, and yet it’s not trying to be anything they’ve done before, whether it’s those early outings or Heavy Psych or Charged (2001), Apollo (2003) or Atomic Ritual (2005). It’s a sixth Nebula album -- something for which even the most ardent of fans could hardly have hoped.

The basic tracks were done in two days, recorded at Mysterious Mammal Studios in L.A. with Matt Lynch (also of Snail) at the helm. Leads and loops and feedback effects were done live by Glass and Davies as they recorded the basic tracks, just the way they’d do it on stage, and overdubs followed after as needed. A glut of material was produced and whittled down to the core of what you hear on  Nebula's sixth album, Holy Shit.