by Bram Teitelman | Oct 8, 2015 | New Music, News
The Ocean (or The Ocean Collective, if you will) are always impressive. They might have outdone themselves with 2013’s Pelagial, a semi-concept album about an actual ocean, with each song getting heavier and denser, like the actual layers of the ocean. The...
by Bram Teitelman | May 29, 2015 | News, Tour Diary
On Sunday, the tour between fellow California sludge bands Black Sheep Wall and Colombian Necktie draws to a close. As proud sponsors of the tour, we’ve been bringing you a tour diary from Black Sheep Wall. You can read installments one and two with from drummer...
by Zach Shaw | Apr 29, 2015 | Exclusive, New Music, News
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL_v5U2AeIs[/youtube] Let’s be honest, instrumental prog rock is a required taste. Yet there’s something irresistible about it when done right. Enter Earthside, a young band that excels at crafting cinematic prog. That’s why...
by Bram Teitelman | Oct 24, 2014 | Crime, News, Touring
Visiting a foreign country for the first time can be a little disconcerting. There’s the language barrier, customs that might not be familiar to you, and the general feeling of not quite knowing your way around. Things were even worse for The Ocean, who in a...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 10, 2014 | Touring, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/baGlOc7VKIc[/youtube] See what we did there? Sea what we did there? At any point, The Ocean are in the process of touring. When they did so last year, they had a camera crew in tow with them, and if you’re a fan of their progressive...