3-part harmony stoner doom trio SPACE QUEEN share "Incantation" single from forthcoming full length debut

 

"Balancing pop accessibility and ethereal reach... oozing with aura and mood, but still purposeful in its structure." -- The Obelisk

Vancouver, BC trio Space Queen share a new single today, "Incantation" as a teaser for their forthcoming full length debut album out later this year. The Obelisk discusses the track and the band, whose previous EP the site included in their Best of 2023 picks, HERE. "Incantation" is also now streaming on all DSPs HERE. 

Space Queen is the stoner rock evolution of power trio Jenna Earle (guitar/vocals), Seah Maister (bass/keys/vocals) and Karli MacIntosh (drums/vocals).

Space Queen takes the trio’s signature haunting vocal harmonies and sends them soaring over a cosmic canvas of neo-psychedelic rock. Driving beats from MacIntosh provide an anchor for Earle’s heavy distortion and 70s-style riffs, while Maister keeps everything grounded on fuzzed-out, gnarly bass. 

The band released their debut EP in 2020 which garnered a ton of favorable press and college radio play, including landing on the Earshot charts. Space Queen was featured on Nardwuar The Human Serviette’s radio show for a month leading up to their EP release. 

Space Queen has steadily increased their following by opening for Meatbodies, King Buffalo, Blackwater Holylight, Dopethrone, Cancer Bats, Hippie Death Cult, Mondo Drag, The Well, Acid Mother's Temple, RIP, Spirit Mother, Spoon Benders, Hastronaut, Mos Generator and Black Mastiff. The band also hit multiple festival stages including Massif Music fest, Electric Highway, Tune It Down Turn It Up Festival, The Dream Roll, The California Avocado Festival, Noise Cult Festival, Rock 'n' Roll Pride, and Fallen Fest.

 

2023-2024 have been landmark years for the band: They released their sophomore record, Nebula, supported by extensive touring in western Canada, across-Canada (to Toronto to play NXNE), the U.S. west coast, and Southern California multiple times. 

Nebula landed on Best of 2023 lists by The Obelisk and Diary Of Doom.

SPACE QUEEN LIVE 2025:

03/28 Vancouver, BC - The Waldorf (single release show)

04/12 Edmonton, AB - The Starlite Room

04/13 Calgary, AB - Modern Love

On The Web:

wearespacequeen.com

instagram.com/wearespacequeen 

facebook.com/wearespacequeen 

wearespacequeen.bandcamp.com

Gus Baldwin & The Sketch share "What The Freaks Say" official video, Eastern US tour dates start next week

"Genre-agnostic quartet with classic rock energy and brassy punk politics... channeling the raw energy of punk." -- Austin Chronicle

“Just goes to show you can still be catchy as hell while playing really fucking loud... I'm not entirely sure there's a single that can capture the live energy the drips from the stage when Gus Baldwin & The Sketch are up there, but this brand new single is pretty damn close.” — Austin Town Hall

"Kick ass to bombastic levels." -- Cosmic Clash

“Noisy, fuzzy punk with a distinct pop sensibility… Full of energy and anger while also managing to be a lot of fun.” — New Noise Magazine

Austin band Gus Baldwin & The Sketch share the official video today for "What The Freaks Say" today, culled from their breakout debut album The Sketch. Watch and share "What The Freaks Say" on YouTube HERE.

The band kick off Eastern US tour dates next week, followed by shows with Barcelona "egg punk" trio Prison Affair in Texas in late April. See all tour dates below, tickets are HERE.

Gus Baldwin & the Sketch is the Artist of the Month for March at local NPR affiliate KUTX. Read the interview HERE. The band was also featured in a front cover story in alt weekly paper the Austin Chronicle. Read the feature story HERE.

The band released their full length debut album The Sketch on January 31st. Hear & share The Sketch on all DSPs HERE. Order on LP and cassette with instant download on Bandcamp. 

Gus Baldwin is a singer/songwriter/ex-hippie/part-time punk hailing from Austin, TX. After a stint holding down drums for Dallas surf punk legends Sealion in high school, Baldwin went on to form the Psych Pop combo Acid Carousel, which he led for 6 years and 20 something releases before departing the band on Halloween night 2021.

Since leaving Acid Carousel, Gus has made a name for himself as a solo artist in Austin, constantly performing as a singer/songwriter, one man garage band, or with his band The Sketch. Quickly releasing a string of titles on his own GetWithIt! Records imprint, including the EPs THRILLER II, and Live Bugs, as well as a slew of singles, Gus established himself firmly as the godson of Texas rock'n’ roll. 

Teaming up with former Acid Carousel bandmates, and other friends, Gus formed The Sketch in 2022 with Lucas Martins, David Rawlinson, and Trey Gutierrez. Embracing the aggression of dirty punk, the looseness of garage, and the charm of power pop, The Sketch quickly established themselves as new cornerstones of the fading Austin rock scene. Recording their debut LP in one marathon day of recording in LA in the spring of 2024 with engineer Joey Oaxaca (White Reaper, Starcrawler), The Sketch is the culmination of Baldwin’s vision, manifested through the raw power of The Sketch themselves.

Baldwin splits his time as a frequent collaborator with The Black Angels and with the likes of Christian Bland & The Revelators as well as The UFO Club with Night Beats frontman, Danny Lee Blackwell.

The Sketch is available on LP, cassette and digital, released on January 31, 2025. Orders are available HERE. 

GUS BALDWIN & THE SKETCH LIVE 2025:

04/03 Atlanta, GA - The Earl

04/04 Chattanooga, TN - The Boneyard

04/05 Memphis, TN - Hi Tone 

04/06 Louisville, KY - Whirling Tiger

04/08 Columbus, OH - Cafe Bourbon Street

04/09 Indianapolis, IN - Melody Inn

04/10 Chicago, IL - Liar's Club

04/11 Detroit, MI - Third Man Records

04/12 Cleveland, OH - Happy Dog

04/13 Pittsburgh, PA - Gov't Center

04/15 Rochester, NY - Skylark

04/16 New Haven, CT - Cafe Nine

04/17 New York, NY - Bowery Electric

04/18 Philadelphia, PA - Silk Club

04/21 Austin, TX - Mohawk Austin (w/ Prison Affair)

04/22 Houston, TX - The End (w/ Prison Affair)

04/23 Dallas, TX - Cheapsteaks (w/ Prison Affair)

Artist: Gus Baldwin & The Sketch

Album: The Sketch

Label: Permanent Teeth Records

Release Date: January 31, 2025

01. Part I

02. Part II

03. Part III

04. Itch 

05. Steady on It

06. Luxury Television 

07. Slacker’s Prom

08. (She’s Gone) Arigato 

09. Beautiful Delilah 

10. What the Freaks Say

11. Sympathy for Sunday

On The Web:

linktr.ee/gusbaldwin

instagram.com/buddy_gus

gusbaldwin.bandcamp.com

permanentteethrecords.bandcamp.com

Porto, PT trio VERBIAN's new album Casarder out now on Lost Future Records (Babel Map, Oak Ash & Thorn)

“Fast-paced, energetic, psychedelic post-metal... And it also rocks as all hell. I just love the concise approach to songwriting here.” – Heavy Blog is Heavy

"Live and dangerous, pulsating prog and post rock from Porto's over trio." -- Echoes & Dust

"Taking cues from early ISIS, stoner doom, Krautrock as well as Latin rhythms, the track marries metallic darkness and soundtrack spaciness with a propulsive heft." -- Decibel Magazine

Porto, PT trio Verbian release their new album CASARDER today on Lost Future Records. Hear and share CASARDER on all DSPs HERE. 

Watch and share "Marcha do Vulto" live in-studio performance via YouTube HERE.

Heavy Blog is Heavy recently launched the official video for "Não vai o Diabo Tecê-las" which features an impressive live-in-studio version of the song HERE. (Direct YouTube.) Decibel Magazine hosted the single release HERE. 

Verbian understands that evolution is essential to heavy music. And so is commitment to revealing profound emotions and letting artistic expression take your music wherever you dare to go. 

“Casarder speaks a little about the insecurities of artistic expression and personal exposure when it comes to fearing being judged for something that is somewhat outside of what is done in each artist's niche,” the band explains. “This was the theme that also inspired the album cover.”

The distorted, anxious and surrealist visual style of the album’s cover art (see below, painted by artist Madalena Pinta) speaks perfectly to the album’s direct albeit melted psychedelic electronic post-metal. Riff after riff comes and goes, never wearing out its welcome, and instead pulling listeners along on a sonic journey through Salvador Dali landscapes of rock forms, pulled apart and reconfigured into mesmerizing new ones. The mostly instrumental album never lingers on a part too long, never wastes a note. It’s angry, driving and multilayered without sounding overly technical or indulgent. 

Since their founding in 2015, the Porto, Portugal band’s music has continued to push forward and fuse genres from metal, rock, electronic, experimental percussion and more into a concise, powerful sound. Guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Vasco Reis was originally joined by drummer Filipe Romariz, with bassist/keyboardist/vocalist Alexandre Silva joining in 2017 to solidify the trio. Following Romariz’s departure in 2022, drummer/percussionist Guilherme Gonçalves brought an evermore hard-hitting feel to Verbian’s sound. 

Verbian’s 2019 self-released debut album JAEZ was followed in 2021 by Irrupção on Italy's Antigony Records. Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Verbian showcased Irrupção at venues like the Hard Club (Porto) and toured cities including Braga, Viana do Castelo, Santiago de Compostela, and Aveiro. Upon Gonçalves joining the lineup in 2022, the band toured cities like Toulouse, Clermont-Ferrand, Santander, and at the Romaria Cultural in Gouveia. They concluded the year with an Iberian tour alongside Catalan band Syberia, visiting Vigo, Porto, and Coruña.

Casarder was recorded with a different approach from their previous efforts. Produced by Verbian and Daniel Valente, the trio did all of the preproduction in the studio, live. “We then built a tempo map and after that we did overdubs,” the band explains. “But the biggest difference was that these were the first songs we wrote with Guilherme on the drums and we believe that is why it's so different from the previous albums. He brought a new and fresh groove to our music, maintaining the heaviness.”

Casarder is available on Limited Edition LP and download on March 21st, 2025 via Lost Future Records. Orders are available HERE. 

 

Artist: Verbian

Album: Casarder

Record Label: Lost Future Records

Release Date: March 21st, 2025

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instagram.com/verbian.porto

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