Over the last eight years, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats have risen as a prominent force in the retro / occult / psych-rock revival. With four albums to their name and a fifth, Wasteland, on the way, the ...

Sam Ray is an American treasure. Taking heavy cues from early video game music, this new record is the perfect display of Ray’s knack for conveying the complexities and contradictions of life.

If you read FADER much you know we love Ricky Eat Acid, the evolving production alias of Sam Ray. He’ll sneak archival stuff online because he’s a music-releasing freak (this week’s Julia Brown ...

Though I recently commissioned Ricky Eat Acid for a FADER mix and interview, I have been avoiding writing about the album that gave rise to the occasion, Three Love Songs, out last week as the first ...

The Brown Acid compilations have been collecting hard-to-find and obscure hard-rock tracks for more than two years now. The series' sixth volume, Brown Acid: The Sixth Trip, will be released on April ...

Before Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats started taking off with the 2011 self-release of Blood Lust, they had released their 2010 debut Vol. 1 on 30 CD-Rs. It’s been bootlegged in the time since then, but ...

Immediately following yesterday’s release, Florida’s Chester Watson is back with another new song. “Acid Residue” doesn’t take the same menacing tone as “Frozen in Time,” but instead, opts for a more ...

The Mellotron-wheezed song moves at a pace too slow to call it Merseybeat, at least nothing to which we could twist or shout. But listen to the nasal, double-tracked vocals glide over those thinly ...

One would expect that some of the music coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic would be in the key of celebration, that music would be a jubilant cry of how we made it, and now, more than ever, we should ...

In the later days of The Beatles, the band became heavily influenced by surreal and psychedelic imagery. Many of their songs had nonsensical lyrics that made fans ponder what they could mean. After ...