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Freak Valley 2016: Rotor and Monolord Added to Lineup
By way of a confession, Monolord were announced a bit ago as the first band for Freak Valley 2016, the festival set to take place next May 26-28 in Netphen, Germany, so I’m combining that word with...
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Freak Valley 2016: Lonely Kamel Added to Lineup
Number three! I can’t imagine I’ll keep count the whole way leading up to next May — though it might be fun to try — but Norwegian heavy rockers Lonely Kamel are the third band to join the ranks of...
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Freak Valley 2016: Baby Woodrose Added to Lineup
It feels like a long three years since Danish garage-psych purveyors Baby Woodrose released their sixth album, Third Eye Surgery (review here), through Bad Afro Records, but the truth is it hasn’t,...
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Freak Valley 2016: The Golden Grass Added to Lineup
Freak Valley 2016 is five bands deep and there isn’t a stinker in the bunch. Just the opposite. Full disclosure: I’m hoping that by the time Brooklynite trio The Golden Grass — who opened for a little...
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Farflung Added to Freak Valley 2016
Los Angeles purveyors of all things high-grade kosmiche Farflung have been added to Freak Valley 2016, the lineup for which continues to deepen and expand with each new inclusion. Farflung are the...
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Freak Valley 2016: Dead Meadow Added; Official Poster Unveiled
Tell the squares to catch the last train out, because Dead Meadow are coming to Freak Valley 2016. The latest addition to the German festival’s 2016 lineup continues the thread of stylistic expansion...
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Freak Valley 2016: Spiders and Sons of Huns Added to Lineup
I’ve had a pretty good thing so far going staying on top of the announcements as they’ve come out for Freak Valley 2016, and I’ll go ahead and blame the fact that I was traveling last week for my...
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Freak Valley 2016: Lé Betre Added to Lineup
Swedish heavy blues outfit Lé Betre have a full-length, 2014’s Melas, and a 2015 STB Records split with King Buffalo (review here) under their collective belt, but the prevailing opinion by all I’ve...
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Freak Valley 2016: White Hills Join Lineup
Granted, I’ve never been, but it seems to me that a group like White Hills more or less embody what a festival like Freak Valley is all about. The New York heavy psych rockers are no strangers to...
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Freak Valley 2016: Spidergawd Join Lineup
There’s about a month and a week left before Norwegian heavy rockers Spidergawd issue their third album, Spidergawd 3, on Crispin Glover and Stickman Records, but I gotta be honest with you: I’m done...
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Freak Valley 2016: Mantar Added to Lineup
It hasn’t yet been a full month since it was revealed that Mantar had signed to Nuclear Blast to release their sophomore LP, Ode to the Flame, in Spring 2016, but already we’re getting a sense of how...
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Freak Valley 2016: Graveyard Announced as Headliner
Sure, the fest is long since sold out, but that’s not going to stop Freak Valley 2016 from announcing its acts one at a time, giving each its proper due. In the case of Graveyard, they might as well...
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Freak Valley 2016: Black Rainbows Join Lineup
That Roman trio Black Rainbows might seem to have broken through with their fourth album, 2015’s Hawkdope (review here), is no coincidence. In addition to guitarist/vocalist Gabriele Fiori having a...
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Freak Valley 2016: Toundra Added to Lineup
Long-enough since sold out, German festival Freak Valley continues to add to its lineup one band at a time. I don’t know how long it will keep going in this fashion, but at this point I’d assume that...
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Freak Valley 2016: The Sonic Dawn Added to Lineup
Danish heavy psych trio The Sonic Dawn are the latest addition to the formidable lineup of Freak Valley 2016. The German fest is set for May 26-28 and features Graveyard, Dead Meadow and Spidergawd,...
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Freak Valley 2016: The Shrine Join Lineup
It’s been, what, hours since the last announcement from Freak Valley 2016? So yeah, we were due. The German fest seems to get increasingly badass by the band, and after delivering Danish newcomers The...
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Freak Valley 2016: Giöbia Added to Lineup
I’d like to think that the complete lineup is confirmed for Freak Valley 2016, and the festival — which is long since sold out — is just piecemealing bands out one at a time for its followers so that...
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Freak Valley 2016: The Devil and the Almighty Blues Added to Lineup
Norwegian beardly fivesome The Devil and the Almighty Blues offered up their self-titled debut (review here) in 2015 and made one of last year’s finer opening statements with it. It would seem that...
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Freak Valley 2016: Bushfire Join Lineup
Bushfire‘s addition to the lineup for Freak Valley 2016 continues a years-running relationship between the band and the festival, and their slot this year places them among the headliners for a...
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Freak Valley 2016: Orange Goblin Added as Headliner
Even as I was posting up the news of the last addition to the lineup for Freak Valley 2016, the German fest went ahead and added another band. And not just any other band — the added Orange frickin’...
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