Since 2009, Lexington, KY’s Dream The Electric Sleep have been honing their particular brand of progressive rock into something approaching a fine art. With influences as diverse as Led Zeppelin, Screaming Trees and Radiohead imbuing their craft, the band’s development took a major step forward last year with the release of the latest record Beneath the Dark Wide Sky, a compelling mix of tight songcraft, big melodies and focussed tunesmithery.Continue reading
Do you remember where you were on September 24th, 1991? That is, if you were even alive, since it was a quarter century ago. I was in class at community college in my home town. As usual I was hanging out on the soccer field, guitar in hand, hanging with my usual band of freaks, geeks, stoners, punks, metalheads, and the like. The buzz around campus was this song ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ that was not only all over MTV, but also becoming an actual hit song on the radio.