RANDY HOLDEN (EX-BLUE CHEER) TO RELEASE SEQUEL TO LEGENDARY “FIRST METAL ALBUM EVER” 52 YEARS LATER TITLED POPULATION III RIDINGEASY RECORDS Los Angeles based unsung guitar hero Randy Holden announces the sequel to his legendary 1970 [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Fourteenth Trip RidingEasy Records Have six months already passed by? Well, that surely means it is time for the new Brown Acid The Fourteenth Trip proto hard/heavy compilation from yesteryear and artists and [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Thirteenth Trip RidingEasy Records Those who are already following this series, possibly now have one question – when are RidingEasy Records head Daniel Hall and his crate-digging partner Lance Barresi, [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Twelfth Trip RidingEasy Records How long can these people have this going on? Wasn’t the Brown Acid compilation(s) just a one or a few volumes thing? Or maybe it was a gimmick? Whatever the thing is, [...]
WARISH (FEAT. RILEY HAWK) SHARE “SECOND HAND MISERY” VIDEO FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM NEXT TO PAY RIDINGEASY RECORDS Southern California trio Warish share a new video & single from their anticipated sophomore full length, Next To [...]
Spelljammer Abyssal Trip Ridingeasy Records Album titles can vary in quality. Many are iconic, while others are atrocious, and some reach a new level of awesome by encapsulating everything about music itself. Abyssal Trip falls squarely in this [...]
Here Lies Man Ritual Divination RidingEasy Records Having burst onto the scene in 2017 with their self-titled debut record, LA’s Here Lies Man has only continued to dive deeper into its essential question, ‘What if Black Sabbath played [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Eleventh Trip RidingEasy Records There could be a few reasons why RidingEasy Records have had 11 runs with their ‘Brown Acid’ series so far, but two pop out as key. One is that their crate diggers have had great [...]
The Death Wheelers Divine Filth RidingEasy Records If you’ve never heard of The Death Wheelers, they are a motley band of Canadian misfits who play a unique brand of doomy surf-rock. The band’s latest release, Divine Filth, is loaded with [...]
Ice The Ice Age RidingEasy Records In 1970, heavy psych-rockers Ice recorded their first and only album at 8-Track Studios in Chicago, Illinois. The band would break up not long after committing only 10 tracks to tape. Two of these songs were [...]
The Goners Good Mourning RidingEasy Records Simply put, The Goners are one of the coolest and heaviest garage rock bands I’ve heard in years. Not since first hearing Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats have I been so pumped for new music. The Swedish [...]
SOMETHING THAT HADN’T BEEN DONE BEFORE A CONVERSATION WITH RANDY HOLDEN (EX-BLUE CHEER) Randy Holden may best be known as a member of the classic rock band Blue Cheer. You may remember them as one very heavy band and their only top twenty [...]
Randy Holden Population II RidingEasy Records In 1969 Randy Holden parted ways with Blue Cheer, and by 1970 had recorded and released his debut solo album, the magnum opus Population II. Sadly, the album received very poor distribution at the [...]
WARISH SHARE NEW SINGLE “WOVEN” | TOUR w/ BLACK LIPS ON NOW RIDINGEASY RECORDS Southern California trio Warish share a new single today to kick off East Coast tour dates with The Black Lips. The song, “Woven” is available [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Ninth Trip RidingEasy Records Riding Easy Records are obviously doing well with their Brown Acid series, now in its ninth incarnation. It is probably time again for all fans of late ’60s, early ’70s [...]
Blackwater Holylight Veils Of Winter RidingEasy Records Veils of Winter is the band’s tenth album. From a technical standpoint the tracks on “Veils of Winter” are expertly mixed using every trick in the book to pump out consistently impressive [...]
Warish Down In Flames RidingEasy Records Tony Hawk’s Underground – yes, the 2003 video game – turned a whole generation of those too young to fully enjoy the ‘90s onto a wave of alternative rock and underground punk music. It comes as no [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Eighth Trip RidingEasy Records Brown Acid: The Eighth Trip is a time capsule which has concealed the secluded and otherworldly Woodstock spirit in a vacuum of proto-metal and stoner-rock absolute gems! The [...]
Warish Warish RidingEasy Records With a heavy distortion reminiscent of niche metal, riffs of hardcore origins, and 4/4 drum patterns that inadvertently leave your feet tapping, the fusion-fueled influences of Warish invite curiosity, [...]
WARISH – WARISH A Spill Exclusive Canadian Album Premiere Imagine if Incesticide era Nirvana were crossed with Static Age era Misfits. You’d have sinister low budget horror rock with a visceral, twisted weirdness and bludgeoning riffs. [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Seventh Trip RidingEasy Records This album is a recompilation of tracks from the ‘60s and ‘70s that were never able to make it into the mainstream radio of those days. Daniel Hall and Lance Barresi once again [...]
Here Lies Man You Will Know Nothing RidingEasy Records Following a debut that captured the positive attention of several critics and garnered a not insignificant following, Here Lies Man’s sophomore album was always going to be a big test for [...]
BlackWater HolyLight BlackWater HolyLight RidingEasy Records Hailing from Portland, Oregon comes BlackWater HolyLight, a slow droning psychedelic trip that blends elements of metal and noise rock on their self-titled debut record. Consisting of [...]
Here Lies Man Animal Noises RidingEasy Records What if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat?— a question and curiosity that we never thought we’d have but that one was still nonetheless perfectly satisfied in Here Lies Man’s work and latest EP, Animal [...]
