Tag Archives: The Gris Gris

?-rebro, Sweden’s Truckfighters shaped in the first 2000s but focus on surprisingly authentic desert/stoner rock and roll from the mid- to past due-’90s range — similar to Dozer, Kyuss, and Fu Manchu, specifically. Featuring vocalist/bassist Ozo, guitarists Fredo and Dango, and drummer Paco, the group debuted in 2003 with a …

Psych-garage-noise purveyors Amazing Color coalesced following Michigan skater/musos Michael Troutman (aka Michael Amazing) and Allison Busch (aka Allison Amazing) installed with fellow Great Lake Condition expat Derek Stanton (aka Derek Amazing) in Brooklyn, NY, in 2004. Sick and tired of the same kind of, same old which was moving for …

The Gris Gris — named following a particularly powerful voodoo spell you can use for great good or great harm, a Dr. John record, and New Orleans slang for medications — may be the brainchild of Greg Ashley, a Texas-born vocalist/multi-instrumentalist motivated by his house state’s renowned garage-psych. While still …

Inspired from the proto-punk Stooges as well as the post-garage Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and educated by the past due ’60s and ’70s rock and roll so prevalent within their middle-American hometowns, Modey Lemon was probably the most successful of the brand new wave of Pittsburgh rings born within the …

Alongside fronting the Gris Gris and working the Creamery recording studio, singer, songwriter, and guitarist Greg Ashley also performs like a single artist, focusing on the delicately trippy psych-folk that occasionally gets into his band’s louder, more unstable music. Past due in 2003, Birdman released his debut recording, Medicine Fuck …