This year, the UP IN SMOKE festival – a sacrosanct gathering sponsored by the Sound Of Liberation stable – appeared to be a real best-of edition. Almost...
A little promotion, no Facebook event for a show taking place the same night as Red Fang in the same town… And yet, the Maroquinerie was packed when FU MANCHU...
That’s the thing with space travel; take a couple of days off to hurtle around the cosmos and you can quite easily get lost up there for a few years. Örebro, Sweden’s...
They kicked our ass in such a massive way at Hellfest, that all we want now is MORE: South California’s stoner rock legends FU MANCHU are back on the Old Continent this...
EGYPT, author of (arguably) the best self-titled demo of all time, is a band who has been through a rocky history but now stands among the finest acts of the stoner and doom...
In the sidelines of Desertfest Berlin, I had the chance to sit down and chat with the kind and friendly Kent Stump, WO FAT’s vocalist and guitarist. Sporting his iconic cow-boy...
As the road event for the Switzerland-based festival of the same name, Up In Smoke is meant to spread the best stoned-out riffs across Europe, and for our greatest delight,...
Hailing from Aschaffenbourg, MY SLEEPING KARMA is a German foursome playing instrumental music at the crossroads of psych rock, experimental rock and stoner. I’ve missed out...
Today, a web search for “Up In Smoke” will mostly direct you to a little-known stoner buddy movie from the 70s, and a mythical 2000 tour with Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, Eminem and...
A few lineup-related imponderables have made this Stoned Gatherings show a single-band one, also exceptionally taking place at La Mécanique Ondulatoire instead of that good...
The heavy bluesy tornado from New Jersey THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX is about to hit France for a short tour this week! Toulouse, Nantes et Paris: be ready, we invite you to join the...
It’s been a while, huh? The “A Week In Video” section makes a comeback today with a bunch of high-end video creations. All these videos are synonymous of much...
The other day, I was describing to a friend the stoner rock scenes across various European countries ; questioned about the U.K., I instinctively replied that the country had...
After Brant Bjork and John Garcia in 2014, it’s now the turn of another California desert rock legend to grace the Stoned Gatherings crowd with his presence: Mario Lalli, on a...
