“Gran Moreno continue bridging the gaps between psychedelia and mass audiences… This track operates with two sides of the storytelling coin, one operating with pop sensibility and hooks, while the other toys with smoky psychedelia and bombast.” — Austin Town Hall
“I’m holding a place in my notes for best debut albums of 2026 for El Sol… They have the energy of a young outfit and the self-awareness to know what they’re about in terms of songwriting.” — The Obelisk
"Heavy guitars and a pounding drum beat give way to Black Sabbath-level sinister vocals to make for a song that rages and crashes like the swells of a heavy ocean storm." -- Glide Magazine
Austin duo Gran Moreno share a new single, "Las Montañas" from their forthcoming debut studio album El Sol today exclusively via Glide Magazine HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
Previous singles from the album are available to hear and share on all DSPs HERE.
Gran Moreno emerges as one of the most captivating voices in the new wave of psychedelic rock. With a sound rooted in analog warmth and expansive textures, the Austin-based band crafts songs that feel like sonic mirages — equal parts groove, grit, and atmosphere. Their music lives at the intersection of distortion and introspection, where hypnotic riffs, heavy rhythms, and emotionally charged melodies build immersive landscapes that demand to be felt as much as heard.
At the core of Gran Moreno is a deep commitment to storytelling through sound. Their upcoming album is a conceptual two-part release: Side A: El Sol and Side B: La Luna. Each side represents a different emotional plane — El Sol radiates urgency, energy, and clarity, while La Luna leans into shadow, mystery, and reflection. The first release, El Sol, captures the band at full intensity, delivering a vivid, unfiltered introduction to their evolving identity.
On stage, Gran Moreno transforms their sound into a full-body experience. Their live shows blend sonic power with visual depth, pulling audiences into a shared trance that feels both personal and communal. As they continue to shape their universe with bold creativity and a fierce independent spirit, Gran Moreno isn’t just making music — they’re building a world of their own.
El Sol will be available on LP and download on January 16th, 2026. Pre-orders are available HERE.
"Eclectic, heavy-but-melodic... sometimes recalls Torche, as well as similar doom leaning acts as Helms Alee and Big Business." -- Treble
"Both raw and hypnotic, and takes in a myriad of punk, screamo, post-hardcore, sludge, doom and psych influences to create an impressive noise." -- Echoes & Dust
Portland, OR trio Belonging share the title track from their forthcoming split LP The Dog with hometown compatriots Inny today. An early listen launched previously via Echoes & Dust HERE. The 2 singles, both titled "The Dog" are now available on all DSPs HERE.
Belonging formed out of the tight-knit DIY scenes of the Upper Midwest, later converging with the heavier and more experimental currents of the Pacific Northwest. The result is a massive, emotionally complex sound, blending the raw urgency of punk and screamo with the heavy, hypnotic energy of sludge, psych, and grunge.
Bryce August, vocalist/guitarist of Belonging on “The Dog”:
“Bukowski called love A Dog From Hell. Yeats wrote that the mythic Irish hero Cú Chulainn, or the Hound of Ulster, “fought with the invulnerable tide.” All three of the songs on this split were written around what happens when all-consuming emotion - passion, obsession, despair - runs into something protean, elemental and immovable like the sea. “The Dog” in particular is about love, loss and how we go on living, keeping our promises to the dead.”
Belonging
Belonging’s side of The Dog finds the band honing their dynamic control and emotional volatility into a tightly interlocked suite of songs. The tracks move with heavy momentum—each one digging deeper into themes of disconnection and restraint, then flaring up into moments of cathartic release. But for all the tension and texture, these songs stick—melodies and phrases linger, and the verses and choruses feel built to shout along with. It’s the sound of something fraying at the edges, still pulsing with clarity and conviction—unsettling, resonant, and deeply human.
Inny
On the flip side, Inny is a different animal altogether. Their three tracks snap, coil, and jab with tightly wound precision—built on sharp guitar interplay, shifting rhythms, and vocals that swing from barked commands to flat-eyed defiance. The songs feel forged in basement heat: lean, urgent, and charged with confrontation. Where Belonging creates tension through space and emotional gravity, Inny builds it through friction and speed, turning every riff into a pressure point. It’s bracing, wired music that bites first and doesn’t ask questions.
The Dog split will be available on 12" LP and download via Dipterid Records on February 6th, 2026. Pre-orders are available HERE.
“Dusty western noir, slinking lounge music, moody goth soundscapes, and shades of shadowy trip hop.”-- Under the Radar
"At times darkly haunting and always beautiful.” -- New Noise Magazine
Joshua Tree, CA quartet This Lonesome Paradise share the first of a trilogy of short films to accompany their forthcoming album Death Motels today. The surrealist short film, "Let Us Prey" launches alongside an in-depth interview today via It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine HERE. The single "Let Us Prey" is also available today on all DSPs HERE.
“I make music from the visuals in my head, they’re the soundtracks to movies that only exist in my mind,” says songwriter E Ray Béchard of This Lonesome Paradise. Now with their latest release Death Motels, those movies take form, sprawling across a three-part cinematic series that drags audiences into the gothic underbelly of the desert.
The cinematic series trilogy — E01: Let Us Prey, E02: Changelings, and E03: Shadow of the Blue Moon is a fever-dream narrative, playing like a séance committed to tape. As if the viewer were commanding a Ouija board, each chapter grows darker, pulling us deeper into a ritual that ends in sacrifice. By day, marauding motorcycle gangs stalk the desert highways, leaving dust and dread in their wake. By night, they shed their leather and chrome, transforming into cult figures under the glow of the moon. The protagonist, a vessel for the symbol of the outcast, the freak at the edge of society, leads us into this liminal world.
Episode Descriptions: E01: Let Us Prey
The opening chapter introduces us to the protagonist: a genre- and gender-neutral figure wandering the wasteland, haunted by fragments of memory and myth. They are an elusive mythic guide — half spirit, half shaman, half memory, who ushers the viewer deeper into the ritual at each stage. Drifting through desolate desert and windmill-strewn horizons, the protagonist is as unsettling as the backdrop. The film swirls with static and saturated psychedelia. An old Polaroid hints at a forgotten procession, a man who harmed, who once held control or power over them, a quasi-antagonist lingering in memory. The tone is one of invocation: a prelude to the transformation still to come.
About This Lonesome Paradise:
Emerging from the Pacific Northwest in 2021, where they wrote and recorded their debut album Electric Dreams (American Standard Time), This Lonesome Paradise has since migrated to the arid high desert of Joshua Tree. Nested in their desert outpost, they recorded Nightshades with producers Taylor Kirk (Timber Timbre) and E. Ray Béchard—carrying with them a haunting sound and spirit that would evolve into Luna Nocturna, released last year on Bad Vibes Good Friends.
Their music conjures a world both cinematic and deeply human, where western noir collides with slinking lounge, and where trip-hop shadows and post-gothic moods drift through the dust. Featured regularly on KEXP’s Roadhouse Hour with Greg Vandy, who has twice named their records among his Top 10 Albums of the Year and were featured on Sounds of the New West Vol. 6 by Uncut Magazine. They’ve played festivals such as Treefort and Lightning in a Bottler and shared stages with acts such as WAND, Timber Timbre, The Warlocks, Spindrift and The Builders & The Butchers. Their song Blue for You was adapted into a narrative short film by Sebastián Ortiz Wilkins, currently on the festival circuit and nominated for awards at the Toronto International Film Festival, Chilliwack Independent Film Festival, and Whistler Film Festival.
Led by vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter E. Ray Béchard, alongside Jordin Bordeaux (keys, vocals), Ivan Garcia (drums), and Chris Wilson (bass), the band crafts songs that feel suspended in time—equal parts fever dream, confession, and mirage. Their sound is both nostalgic and forward-facing: the ghost of a Morricone score haunted by Portishead’s rhythm section. It’s music that seems to drift from an old radio in a motel at the edge of nowhere.
Their forthcoming album, Death Motels, expands this mythology into a multi-part cinematic experience, a descent through the gothic underbelly of the desert that blurs the line between film, ritual, and dream. Conceived as a trilogy of short films and an album, Death Motels explores transformation and collapse in modern humanity, finding beauty in ruin. Each chapter unfolds like a séance: surreal, sensual, and spiritually charged. This uncanny visual language mirrors the band’s sonic aesthetic: elegant yet unsettling, romantic yet fractured, each frame capturing the same intimacy and disquiet that define This Lonesome Paradise’s sound.
Death Motels will be available on LP and download via Bad Vibes Good Friends on March 12th, 2026. Pre-orders are available HERE.
