Rose City Band - Earth TripRose City Band is celebrated guitarist Ripley Johnson. A prolific songwriter, Johnson started Rose City Band to have an outlet to explore songwriting styles apart from Wooden Shjips and Moon Duo, where he is often not the lead songwriter. Rose City Band allowed him to follow his musical muses as they greet him and not be bound by the schedule of bandmates and demands of a touring group. Stepping out from behind the psychedelic haze that envelops his

A new volume

Quite often these records were cut in home studios – many featured the same basic synth (just the one) that Roxy’s Eno and Hawkwind’s DikMik used

Most of the famous tracks are on here to keep the fans happy

world music and experimental pop

Over 10 years after it's initial

it immediately cemented them as heavy metal icons

and heavy as the crown may be

Originally released on a collaborative EP with electronic maestros Tim Hecker and Loscil (the latter‰۪s drones are retained here)

The Baltimore trio consists of enigmatic frontman Sam Herring

Reissue of the classic 2000 album

All of this frantic

but barely conspicuous in its relation