Unknown Pleasures · 05.11.2025

Sometimes I receive emails that turn into more than just a quick click-and-delete because I don't like the music. That's what happened when Sergio, one of the employees at Aloud Music in Barcelona, sent me an E-Mail. I've had this label on my radar ever since the AM Festival in 2018 (https://www.heavystoned.eu/live-report/amfestival-2018/. Aloud Music releases music far removed from the mainstream and has a real knack for discovering new acts. For example, Emma Ruth Rundle first played at the...

Unknown Pleasures · 07.03.2025

The Italian sound and drone monsters Ufomammuth aren't my cup of tea at all. But what bassist Urlo delivers with his solo project The Mon in the form of the Gesamtkunstwerk "Major Arcana" is quite simply a masterpiece of visual and acoustic aesthetics. The diverse layers of frequencies and sounds, in their contradictions, form a tightly interwoven web of simultaneous lightness, transparency, and density, similar to the tent construction of Munich's Olympic Stadium. Whether this, according to...

Concerts & Tours · 22.09.2023

Norway´s art and psychedelic rockers Astrosaur will hit the road for some few concerts in northern Europe. What a pity not to see them a bit more south of Norway.