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Stefan Kéry runs the independent record label Subliminal Sounds, which releases both contemporary psychedelic music as well as reissuing rare and unknown LP’s from the golden age of psychedelia. He i…

In this last episode of the season we will have a look at some Christian underground psychedelia and Jesus rock. The Christian sub-genre has some very desirable titles as many were privately pressed …

During the 1960s psychedelic and progressive music were very much an underground phenomenon in Sweden but in the early 70s this alternative scene grow and together with an increasing political awaren…

In this very special episode I ( Viktor Ahldén) will share with you some of my latest finds.

This is all relatively unknown stuff that I had never heard of before buying and as with most private rele…

Tumbleweed was founded by Bill Symczyk and Larry Ray, which at that time worked for ABC-Dunhill but because of fears for a major earthquake in LA in the early 70s they decided to move to Denver, Col…

This episode will end our short exposé on the UK underground scene and in this last episode we are concentrating on some interesting crossover music. During the progressive period the bands started t…

Today’s episode continues to explore the underground progressive scene and here we are focusing on the heavier more guitar driven style, which many bands started to practice around 1969. Instead of b…

Here we did an interview with Paul Marcano, one of the founding members of LightDreams, a Canadian trio known for their self released album Islands In Space from 1981. The album is considered among m…

Moving on with the UK underground scene and in this episode we are discussing the transition from psychedelic to progressive music. As the 60s came to an end the bands started to incorporate more pro…

This is the first out of four episodes about the UK underground psych and prog. In this first episode we are focusing on the early psychedelia scene in 1967-68. As with the pop cultural development i…

This is the second and last part (at least for now) of our explorations in the s/sw genre. This time we take a look at some private press artists that didn’t make it on big important record companies…

In the first episode we focus on major label s-sw that despite releasing for big record companies are largely forgotten today (with the exception of perhaps Jackson C Frank). The term singer-songwrit…