Blog: My Old Kentucky Blog

Do we really need a new term in addition to psych-garage, psych-pop, shoegaze, garage-psych, etc.?  If Siddhartha ’s “dashiki shoegaze” signals a new genre wrinkle, I’d say, “Yeah.” Born on the streets of San Francisco, Marlon Hauser’s combo merges chanting, ping-ponging guitar notes, deep bass punctuation, fuzzy guitar lines, juicily picked guitar, and, sometimes, a ‘90s shoegaze sound. If It Die is pushed by the sort of endless-horizon ambition that exemplified ‘Frisco’s psychedelic pioneers Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Big Brother.  How fitting. I’m especially moved by the band’s crazy little slice of rock heaven; “Diamond [...]