See, you knew something was up a couple weeks ago when European booking concern and record label Sound of Liberation announced their first 20th anniversary party and included the name of the host city. With Greenleaf , Daily Thompson and Kant featuring on the Karlsruhe bill, you would not call it lacking, in any case. A badass assemblage by any other name remains badass. Of course, Sound of Liberation is well versed in festival-making across a swath of locales.
The company in closely involved in a number of fests throughout Europe all year long, and have been essential in shaping the live circuit across the continent. There are very, very few who can make such a claim. This one-night-only event is all about stoner and psychedelic rock, featuring a killer lineup straight out of the Sound of Liberation universe:.
Cheers, Your Sound of Liberation Crew. Leave a comment Β». Holy smokes, check out that lineup. Each offers something different, each occupies a different place in sound and has a different history. As all-dayers go, the SOL Sonic Ride β the 20th anniversary celebration of the aforementioned Sound of Liberation , ser for March 29 and happening across two venues in Cologne, Germany β looks positively epic.
Expect explosive performances from some of the heaviest and trippiest bands on the SOL roster, including:. A short time after I took the above photo at Bear Stone Festival this past July in Croatia, I stood by the side of the stage with an assemblage from among the media-types brought in to cover the fest. Whatever the reason, get to a Colour Haze gig if you can. There were rumors around of North American touring next year too. Any year you get to see them play is a good one.
That Colour Haze are writing a new album makes me pretty happy, but honestly, I kind of expect at this point that the Munich progenitors of heavy psychedelic rock are always writing at one level or another, moving forward as they go from fest to fest or show to show or the stretches between, just as a part of life.
