Podcast 2025.09 #9 Dreamweapon

February 20, 2026

Abronia

#Experimental #AcidFolk #DesertDrone #GarageRock #Kosmische #Krautrock #Psychedelic

A six piece based in Portland, Oregon USA–two guitars, pedal steel, tenor saxophone, bass, and a big drum. Keelin Mayer: Vocals, Tenor Saxophone Rick Pedrosa: Pedal Steel, Percussion Robert Grubaugh: Big Drum, Percussion Danny Metcalfe: Bass James Shaver: Guitar Eric Crespo: Guitar, Backing Vocals
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Shapes Unravel?
Abronia: I think it’d be impossible to boil it down to one thing. It’s hard to ever name one thing in this band that’s influencing us.
And this album took so long to write. Some of it was being written back in like 2020, before our last album even got recorded.
A lot of stuff from a long period of time worked itself in there I’m sure.
There’s six of us in the band and everyone has a say about how the music should go, so it’s pretty broad.
We’ve been doing this band long enough that there are moves we make that are self referential or actively trying to do something we haven’t done in the past. So our past selves are one influence I could confidently name.
TMODM: What were the recording sessions like?
Abronia: One thing about these sessions is we were pretty fresh off of a ten-day California/Arizona tour when we went into the studio. So we had some tour tightness.
We’ve never gone into the studio right after going on tour before. Would highly recommend!
We went to a studio in Portland called Echo Echo, which used to be called Type Foundry–it’s the same space where we’ve recorded our other three studio albums.
When we track it’s five of us playing live in the big room and Keelin is in a smaller isolation room, but we can see her through a big glass window. She’s in there in order to avoid bleed from her saxophone or having the other instruments bleed into her mics.
We track the songs together all playing together like we would live. If the first take isn’t good we do another or maybe a few more–not that many. We tracked to analog two inch tape. I think every album has been tracked to two inch analog tape.
We’re not one of those bands who spends a long time working out ideas in the recording studio or doing endless takes. By the time we get to the studio, we know pretty well what we’re going to be recording.
We do demos at a studio long before we go in to “officially” record an album so that we can hear all the details of the songs. Hearing them properly recorded allows us to hear the songs back and check and see if we need to tweak anything. We often do tweak minor things about songs between the demo’ing and official tracking days–little compositional things or whatever.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Abronia: We’ll play some shows after this new record comes out.
We’re going to play a record release show in Portland with Jackie-O Motherfucker. And then we’re playing with Jackie-O in Seattle on February 27th and in Bellingham, Washington on February 28th.
We’ll have some shows in the spring on the West Coast and then in August we’re going to try to play ten shows between Brooklyn and Chicago—East Coast and Midwest dates. We’ve never been out there before.
Would be killer to come back to Europe again too sometime, but no plans on that as of now.

June 12, 2025

Geranium Drive

#GarageRock #Neopsychedelia #PsychRock

Geranium Drive creates a melange of sound by combining the spirit of rock with the magic and soul of modern psychedelia – While many bands cross genres Geranium Drive connect the dots. Autumn Furtak (guitar, vocals, percussion, keys) John Crowe (bass, vocals) Math Judson (drums, percussion)
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Lose Your Future?
Geranium Drive: I’d say the strongest influence on that record was The Verve, especially their Northern Soul album. I was drawn to the hazy, hanging tones of the lead guitar and Ashcroft’s free-flowing vocal phrasing — that loose, drifting energy planted a seed I started hearing in a lot of contemporary psych bands like The Black Angels and Deerhunter. A few other records nudged our sound too, mainly those late-’80s/early-’90s Britpop staples. I took a lot from The La’s self-titled album, Oasis’s first record, and Longpigs’ The Sun Is Often Out. I was also spinning Acid Dad’s first album nonstop during that time, and some of that raw, new york punk sound definitely seeped in.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Geranium Drive: We’re currently working on a new batch of songs that are taking the band in a more energetic, groove-leaning direction — a little sharper, a little more wired, pulling from psych-punk edges, ’70s proto-punk, and garage-rock bite. Expect to hear new tunes in spring 2026!

September 1, 2025

Alien Witch

#Experimental #NoWave #AcidRock #DreamPop #Drone #Experimental #Neogoth #Neopsychedelia #Noise #Psychegoth #Shoegaze

Alien Witch – Orlando, Florida “The San Francisco Renaissance & Alien Witch E.P.” Recorded in the coldest part of the winter (early 2025) in the attic of a house that is over 120 plus years old. Recorded mostly over two nine hour days in the smoke filled attic. Dee Dee C. Parker M. Mauricio R. J.B. Dean N. Jesse M.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on The SFR And Alien Witch Split E.P.?
Alien Witch: What had the strongest influence on the album “The SFR And Alien Witch Split E.P.” Was the camaraderie between the two bands and also the environment in which the album was made. We recorded the vast majority of it over 3 days in a haunted house from 1893 near the Suwannee River, in the coldest part of last winter. Specifically utilizing the attic for all the guitars and vocals, etc. it really had an atmosphere that reflected the music and vice versa.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Alien Witch: Some records that changed my life are Mark Lanegan’s “Bubblegum” is a great record as well as his “Blues Funeral”. “Revelation” by The Brian Jonestown Massacre is another great record that had a big influence, a few years back. Blind Willie Johnson’s Greatest Hits Compilations are some of my all time favorites, along with similar artists.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Alien Witch: What’s next for me/Alien Witch is to release a finished 15 song record of all new material, in early January of 2026, make an entirely new full length album in the previously mentioned “haunted house” a little later in 2026, as well as some other film projects that I myself and others like the SFR are taking part in, there’s a documentary being made that we are both featured in and also features the house/home studio I keep mentioning. So that should be cool/interesting!

November 14, 2025

Codex Serafini

#FuturistRock #PsychedelicDrone #PsychedelicRock #SaturnianRitual #Doom #Noise #Post-punk

Codex Serafini are a Saturnian Ritualistic band hailing from outer-space, currently passing through Earth and temporally residing in Sussex. They are keen to spread their message as far and wide as is possible in their current forms.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Mother, Give Your Children Sanity?
Ana: Lyrically and thematically there is a mix of fractured mother-child relationship that I have experienced, as well as the sense of disconnection in the world, this was sharpened by time spent reflecting in Bristol where we wrote the majority of the album.
Matt: playing/jamming with Codex is my biggest influence, seeing which vibes and ideas get a positive or interesting response and challenging the way we play together.
Weez: the strongest influence for MYCI was moving to Bristol, walking around the city listening to different types of music and it all took on a different character than it had done before
Oli: Strongest influence for me was finding the joy in connection with bandmates and sharing our love of different types of music such as Ethio jazz and metal
TMODM: What record(s) changed your lives?
Ana: The Mars Volta- Amputechture
Matt: Slint – Spiderland – it was a completely different approach to heaviness in music from anything I’d heard before.
Oli: Advaitic Songs by OM – I started listening to music differently after hearing it for the first time.
Weeze: Kate Bush – The Dreaming. Very ambitious, very experimental sonic world-building and storytelling. Nothing exists like it.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Codex Serafini: Writing a new album and touring as much as possible. We have 2 weekends of shows booked in England and Wales for April. And plan to play more UK shows soon as well as getting back over to Europe in Autumn 2026. We will start the writing process for the next set of songs soon, so we are excited to see the progression of our songwriting from “Mother, Give Your Children Sanity”

October 30, 2025

Melcochas

#Surf #GaragePunk #GarageRock #Psychedelic #PsychedelicRock #Surf

Melcochas are from Barcelona, Spain
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on II?
Melcochas: I think that apart from the influences we’ve had since the beginning of the band, like the whole Californian garage/psych scene or all the Krautrock classics like Can, while making this record we were going to a lot of punk shows here in Barcelona, and also playing alongside a bunch of local and international bands that influenced our approach towards playing live and recording. Just to give examples, I think we were all listening to a lot of Powerplant, Gee Tee, Smirk, etc.
TMDOM: What record(s) changed your lives?
Melcochas: I guess it’s a different one for everyone in the band, haha, but I would say some records we all really enjoy would be Sabbath’s Master of Reality, Los Saicos’ single collection album, Funhouse by The Stooges.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Melcochas: Recording another album as soon as we can and keep on playing as much as we can.

October 31, 2025

Sun Mahshene

#Alternative #DreamRock #IndieRock #Neopsychedelia #Psychedelic #Shoegaze

Sun Mahshene sits at the intersection of shoegaze, psych, and grand layered atmospheric rock. Known for their explosive live shows and immersive wall of sound, the Dublin five-piece create a hypnotic collision of soaring guitars, melodic bass lines, and relentless rhythmic drive. Nathan Henderson: Guitar & Vocals. Robert Crosbie: Guitar, Keyboard, Backing Vocals. Ian McGinn: Guitar. David Hilliard: Bass & Backing Vocals. David Murray: Drums.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Life Is Joy?
Sun Mahshene: It was written in part as a rebuttal to the current state of affairs in the world. Every day we’re being told how fucked we are, the future is bleak etc. And there’s no doubt we live in troubled times. But there is a lot of good happening and there is a lot to be hopeful about. It’s one of the most organic songs we’ve ever written. A moment of magic happened in our studio and everything fell into place. So there’s an additional level of connection between each member of the band on this one. It fell from the cosmos into our laps and we channeled it for the universe.
TMODM: What Records changed your lives?
Nathan Henderson: Del Shannon Runaway Hits is where it all started for me. My dad used to play the album a lot when I was a kid. I can still remember the moment I heard those first opening strums of Runaway and being transfixed on it. This was the record that ignited my passion for rock n roll music and sent me on my journey to becoming a musician.
Dave Murray: Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II. We had a cassette in the house growing up. My uncle had picked it up on his travels. This tape sent me down the Dylan rabbit hole for decades after!
Ian McGinn: Lithium by Nirvana. First Nirvana song I ever heard. First time I’d heard the dynamic of soft intro/verses turned into explosive choruses with vocal melodie’s being roared to the heavens. And how you can simply take the same chords for a verse and use the exact same chords and structure for the choruses with the vocal delivery doing the work of making it sound different.
David Hilliard: Like a lot of people my introduction to The Verve was through Urban Hymns. My dad bought the album and I got into them from him listening to it. After that I bought A Northern Soul and loved it too, it was a bit more raw, it didn’t have the big hits like Symphony, Drugs or Lucky Man but it had real genuine power and energy to it. Shortly after that I bought A Storm in Heaven. I listened to it a few times and for whatever reason I didn’t get it. They say the music you like when you’re 20 is the music that shapes you. But years later I stumbled across A Storm in Heaven again and instantly the penny dropped. That album blew me away years after hearing for the first time. Sometimes the right music can be there for you at exactly the right time.
Rob Crosbie: I’ll go with Dire Straits self titled debut album (1978). A great collection of tight, roots driven rock, unadorned by some of the excess they were known for in the 80s. Just a great four piece band who could play amazingly well. Mark Knopfler is underrated as a lyricist; these songs reflect a longing to escape, to break free from poverty and urban decay. They got me into music and guitar playing. I’ll always blame them for it!
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Sun Mahshene: There’s lots on the horizon for us. We’ re getting ready to record our next single as well as the next album. There are lots of great ideas flowing and I think we’re going to surprise people a bit with what’s coming. We’re also planning our European tour for 2026. So there’ll be lots of Sun Mahshene shows next year.

October 17, 2025

Spiral Wave Nomads

#EclecticRockExplorations #Experimental #Experimental #FolkRock #FreeJams #Kosmische #Psychedelic #PsychedelicRock

The Nomads are Eric Hardiman (guitarist, psychic detonator, veteran of Albany’s colossal noise-tribe Burnt Hills, bassman of the lit-punk jammers Sky Furrows, and one half of the spectral duo Century Plants) and Michael Kiefer (Drifting North drummer, Twin Lakes co-founder, tempo-smasher of the free-rock duo Rivener and survivor of Myty Konkeror and its glorious progeny, the ecstatic psych-trio More Klementines).
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on The Weightless Sea?
Eric: “Mike and I had gone to see Neil Young and Crazy Horse live the night before we tracked the record, so I’d say that was definitely a very direct and immediate source of inspiration. I’m a long-time Neil listener and his raw approach to electric guitar is always in my head. I had also been listening to Popol Vuh a fair amount, particularly the Letzte Tage – Letzte Nächte record. Other than that, I’d also add that Sally’s Pizza in New Haven was an influence and helped fuel the recording.”
Mike: “Yeah, I’m sure we were subconsciously channeling some Crazy Horse from the previous night’s show. And being nourished by some New Haven ah-beetz definitely didn’t hurt. In terms of final presentation, I’d include Vonnegut’s Sirens of Titan. The sonic spaces we explore often remind me of the overall tenor of that novel…the way he explores the human condition through this weird sci-fi lens with such incisive wit, tenderness, and a combination of resignation and hope. The album title and some song titles are direct references.”
TMODM: What were the recording sessions like?
Eric: “It was a great experience – very relaxed and easy. We recorded at Mike’s home studio outside New Haven. He’s a wizard with recording drums, and it’s a comfortable room so we basically set up a few amps and started playing with little to no advance conversation. Mike’s an incredibly intuitive drummer and a great listener, so we were able to just improvise freely and have fun exploring ideas. Sometimes the initial improv was the only take; other times we talked about what had worked well and did a second take. All of the basic tracks came from that session. We recorded about two full album’s worth over the course of the day, and then separately overdubbed parts later. Mike did the mixing and mastering and that was it.”
Mike: “It’s always a treat to get in the same room with Eric and play, which doesn’t happen often since we live two and a half hours apart. Like Eric said, we didn’t talk too much about or overthink what we hoped to accomplish that day—a few themes and riff ideas—but I remember the ideas coming really naturally that day. We’re always on the same page rhymically, which makes my job super easy.”
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Eric: “Hopefully some live shows, and then on to the next record. We’ve actually got a decent stockpile of unreleased material that I’d love to get released. Some of that is from the New Haven recording session, but some is older material. I’m excited about that stuff – much of it is extended form and more abstract/textural than our existing records. So we would love to release The Weightless Sea Volume 2, and then see what happens after. I would love to see some guest collaborators enter the mix too.”
Mike: “I second everything Eric said. It’s kind of a fantasy of mine for use to get some other players in the room to bring some of our multitracked songs to life in a live setting, but time and geographic distance seems to be a significant constraint that maybe we can overcome someday.”

December 6, 2025

Tombstones In Their Eyes

#Alternative #Neopsychedelia #Neopsychedelia #PsychRock #Shoegaze

Psych-rock from Los Angeles.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Under Dark Skies?
Tombstones In Their Eyes: The strongest influence on Under Dark Skies was the desire to push through pain and come out the other side.
TMODM: What were the recording sessions like?
Tombstones In Their Eyes: The recording sessions were spiritually healing, done at our usual studio (Kitten Robot Studio) with our dear friend, Paul Roessler. Under his gentle guidance, we were able to bring the songs to life.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Tombstones In Their Eyes: Next for us is to begin regrouping for live shows. We lost our friend and guitar player, Paul Boutin, in October and have been taking some time to mourn and recover. In the new year we will start up again and work towards getting out and playing live again.

May 16, 2025

Black Moon Circle

#HardRock #Jam #PsychedelicRock #SpaceRock

Black Moon Circle is a Trondheimm´, Norway based band. An EP on Space Rock Productions and a full length record, Andromeda were released in 2014 and early 2015 with great praise from the underground media, including Top 10 best new bands by the Obelisk web site! While, these two records focused on songs, the group of musicians has been having yearly jam sessions with Dr Space (from Øresund Space Collective). This has resulted in The Studio Jams Vol 1 which is the first of at least 3 volumes of Studio jams to be released on limited edition vinyl records over the next 2 years. The material on the studio jam record is all about intensity! Intense heavy fuzzed out guitars, blasting bass and drums and spaced out synthesisers. This is one intense instrumental trip with some killer jamming from the entire band. The music on the bands EP and albums are more song based but with a lot of great instrumental parts. Think Gov’t Mule meets Hawkwind and you get the picture.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on A Million Leagues Beyond?
Black Moon Circle: Our latest studio album Leave the Ghost Behind was recorded live in 2020-21 in Nautilus Studio where we record all our music and rehearse as well. After the album was released in 2023 we started playing gigs. In the fall that year we played at this really cool club in our hometown Trondheim, and they recorded the show. When I listened back to the recording I thought it sounded good, and it could be a nice way to show what happens to the music after we have played it live for a while. And that´s what we did, the originals were recorded in 2020 and the live versions were done three years later and released as A Million Leagues Beyond.
TMODM: What record(s) changed your lives?
Black Moon Circle: Cool records keep on changing my life, right now it is UFO, Lights out. I have always heard about them but never listened to their music before now, wov, great record. Looking back there are many, just to mention a few Rock´n roll music with the Beatles, Electric Ladyland, OK Computer, Demon Box (Motorpsycho), Welcome to the Infant Freebase (Soundtrack of our Lives), Rust in Peace, lots of Thelonious Monk records and Sun Ra, Kind of Blue kicked off jazz for me.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Black Moon Circle: We are working on a new album and hopefully it will be out in October, 2026.

August 29, 2025

Kaliyuga Express

#Noise #Psych #PsychedelicRock #Sludge #SpaceRock #SpaeRitual

Two fields of existence collide as Nolla (Finnish psych/space rockers) & Mike Vest (Maximalist guitar guru, Bong, Blown Out, Drunk In Hell, Artifacts & Uranium, Modoki, Tomoyuki Trio, Mienakunaru etc) merge their creative visions for the third time. Creating a steady and surreal exploration through astral planes. Nolla improvised the ground layer in their signature minimal space-rock style and MikeV wrapped everything up in lavish layers of fuzz, phased and U-Wah layered guitars. Blending octaval tones, around an array of electronics & vocal harmonies. Resulting in a constant trance like psychedelic drone rock. It’s time to join the extraterrestrial communion, beyond the skies, convert into the mode of light and pay homage to his mighty eminence. IIkka Vekka – Bass, Lyrics, Art & Electronics Otto Juutilainen – Vocals, Mix & Mastering Mike Vest – Guitars Teemu Vilmunen – Guitars Ohto Pallas – Drums

November 11, 2025

Spawn

#PsychedelicRock #HardRock #ProgRock #Doom #HealingMusic #Sitar #StonerRock

Psych/Stoner/Sludge band from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. AKA Spawn Of The Earth. Lenz Ma – Guitar, Vocals, Theremin Andie Kate – Bass, Vocals Madi O’Shea – Guitar, Vocals Dr Sarita McHarg – Sitar, Vocals, Percussion Rhiannon Smith – Drums Angelique Forsyth – Keyboards
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Light Rite?
Spawn: Its very hard to say about the influence, as there are six of us and everyone has different influence on the way they play their
instruments. But as the song writer (lyrics and structures) for most
of the song, I will say the bands like The Band, Black Sabbath, Steely Dan and Blue Oyster Cult have the strongest influence on crafting this album.
TMODM: What records changed your lives?
Lenz: The Band – The Last Waltz, Black Sabbath – Master of Reality, Blue Oyster Cult – Blue Oyster Cult
Madi: Pink Floyd ‘Wish You Were Here’
Rhiannon: 13th Floor Elevators ‘Easter Everywhere’, Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder ‘Talking Timbuktu’
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Spawn: We have a album launch booked at 12th of Dec. After that we might take a break as I recently gave birth to twins so want to spend time with them as much as possible.