Osees, or maybe you know them as Oh Sees, or Thee Oh Sees, or OCS, or The Oh Sees. Whatever they wish to call themselves today, they have a new album ‘Protean Threat’ coming out on September 18th via Castle Face Records and have now shared single ‘Dreary Nonsense’ from that upcoming album. The band […]
Amyl & The Sniffers: Amyl & The Sniffers With an absolutely snarling beast of an album, wrapped in melodic yet ferocious overtones, Amyl and The Sniffers are Australia’s brightest punk rock band to emerge in years. The self-titled debut album from this Melbourne lot is laden with melodically charged guitar riffs, feisty vocals from frontwoman […]
-ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER- In front of a sold out Albert Hall crowd, Oh Sees main man and Castle Face Records label boss John Dwyer takes to the stage, to a huge cheer, but hang on a minute, he’s just setting up the equipment – himself. That’s just one of the million reasons to love this […]
Charging in like a psych rock rollercoaster, the latest Oh Sees album finds frontman and record label owner John Dwyer expanding into new territory. Following a slight name change (dropping from Thee Oh Sees to simply Oh Sees) for last release ‘Orc’ in 2017, Dwyer and co have once again combined their ferocious guitar tunes […]
-ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER- It’s an intensely grim evening in Manchester tonight, but despite that fans are out in force, descending on the Albert Hall for Castlemania: a Castle Face Records showcase event offering five live bands. Opening we have Kelley Stoltz, current San Francisco resident who has been releasing music since 1999 and has been […]
Just as you begin to get comfortable with something, the rug is pulled from under you. Recently, John Dwyer and his band Oh Sees released their newest record, the monolithic psych opus Orc. This release represents the 19th album under some amalgam of the name Oh Sees/Thee Oh Sees/The Oh Sees, OCS, etc. Wasting no […]
May we present a one-two shot to the ribs from the Castle Face Records roster, a Thursday in Manchester, a Friday in London, spearheaded by those indefatigable and indispensable Oh Sees, a live force to be feared. Joined by white mages of healing and appealing frequencies Once and Future Band, underground pop wunderkind cum laude Kelley […]
Oh Sees are the latest incarnation of songwriter, singer, guitarist (and Castle Face leader) John Dwyer’s ever-evolving rock-pop-folk psychedelic group, which is in its 20th year of existence in 2017; ORC being their 19th album. ORC is out on Castle Face Records on Friday 25th August 2017. Listen to the blistering first track ‘The Static […]
– ACADEMY 1, MANCHESTER – “I lie awake until I sleep, I see the sky tear, and then it weeps,” sings the dangerously prolific bird-of-prey John Dwyer, as sheets of blood-sucking black rainbow arch over Manchester’s Academy 1 and suffocate. The founding-member and primary songwriter of Thee Oh Sees – now simply Oh Sees following […]
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