Interview with Mac Sabbath manager Mike Odd at the Pitch

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Mac Sabbath is the world’s only clown-fronted, fast-food themed, Black Sabbath act. There are costumes, a light show and songs, which don’t so much glorify fast food as warn of its dangers. It’s a strange cross between “Weird Al” Yankovic and Michael Pollan, but it works. The band doesn’t do interviews, so we spoke by phone with Mac Sabbath’s manager, Mike Odd, about the whole strange affair ahead of Wednesday’s show at the Jackpot.

Read the full interview at the Pitch. Published 9/14/16

Acid Mothers Temple and Space Paranoid, “Black Magic Satori” LP

cover - acid mothers temple black magic satoriAcid Mothers Temple and Space Paranoid is the latest, umpteenth version of the Japanese psychedelic rock collective, and on this go-’round, Black Magic Satori, it’s less psych and more doom. I mean, seriously: DOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

No, but really: there’s some super down-tempo Black Sabbath love on this LP — “Black Sabbth” the song, specifically, right down to the ringing bell. On the title track, “Black Magic Satori,” Acid Mothers Temple and Space Paranoid takes the sound out of the grave and into outer space, courtesy of Higashi Hiroshi‘s madman synths.
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