Review: Weathers – Heavy Truck
Greece might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of sludgy stoner metal… or the second, fifth, or tenth. But Weathers is out to change your mind about that. They might come from...
View ArticleDaily Bandcamp Album – Blue Venus by Venus Blue
Rock n’ roll. “You can hear everyone from Blue Cheer to the Stooges, early Pentagram, and smatterings of hardcore punk. Venus Blue describe themselves as a band with a “unique sound” that “boggles the...
View ArticleThe Soda Shop Records Presents – The Soda Shop Comp Vol. 3
The Soda Shop Records Proudly Presents it’s next free comp album. The album is officially due out for FREE at the end of May. Artists featured will be Fellwoods, The Grand Astoria, The Dead Exs, The...
View ArticleRED FANG Announce North American Tour Dates
Portland Oregon’s RED FANG are in the midst of wrapping up their European tour with a show tonight in Moscow, Russia and their final gig tomorrow in St. Petersburg, Russia. Before they had back...
View ArticleFirst new music from Melvins Lite release “Freak Puke” (June 5, Ipecac)...
Melvins Lite is an additional incarnation of the Melvins. The line-up is Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover and Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas & Tomahawk). Melvins Lite’s debut release is “Freak Puke,”...
View ArticleReview-Satellite Beaver-The Last Bow EP
Satellite Beaver. Great fucking name. Great fucking EP. Formed in Warsaw in 2008, Satellite Beaver is a hard rocking stoner band that needs to make an LP after hearing this 4 song EP. All the way from...
View ArticleDAily Bandcamp Album – Rokeville by The Columbines
This one is a bit different but fucking cool. The band The Columbines is from Chicago. they play some wicked blues rock mixed with a bit of old school outlaw country and even some rock-a-billy. Think...
View ArticleSite Updates
Well the time has come to move The Soda Shop blog from a WordPress hosted blog to a self host server. The move is complete. This blog will cease to update after Memorial Day 2012. Old links and posts...
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The Songs of Townes Van Zandt Steve Von Till, Scott Kelly, and Wino Written By Ian Gerber for The Soda Shop From the beginning of my foray into writing for The Soda Shop I have had a compulsion to try...
View ArticleMini-Review: Ides of Gemini – ‘Constantinople’
‘Constantinople’ Ides of Gemini [Neurot Recordings] The way the two Sera Timms-fronted bands are set up, it’s hard not to compare the dormant (currently writing) Black Math Horseman and this new...
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