New releases last eight weeks: All genres

Review: The Rubber Snake Charmers are a new super-band featuring desert rock legends Mario Lalli, Brant Bjork, Sean Wheeler and Ryan Gut. Their debut release as a band, this is a meeting-of-minds of pioneering desert rock musicians captured in their purest form, collaboratively exercising a desert-born ethic and approach to rock improv; psychedelic, flowing, heavy and explorative. The foundation of Lalli's groovingly heavy basslines and meditative themes coalesce with the intuitive guitar work from Brant Bjork and percussion of Ryan Gut, both of which set the scene for Sean Wheeler's poems and songs, capturing the dark and beautiful stories and images of life in the Mojave desert of Southern California. Desert rock in its purest form and a very special live performance straight from the heart of Australia's Gold Coast.

Review: Madison, Wisconsin based stoner/sludge metal legends Bongzilla make the gnarliest, heftiest, ugliest weed-inspired cacophony possible, while their avid legions of dank smelling followers are often the closest they can get to stern when highlighting how the band's live experience is the truest means of hitting the bong properly. Dabbing (LIVE) Rosin in Europe brings the live bong experience right to your ear canals with a collection of cuts taken from performances at Paradise Island, Minoga in Poznan, Poland, and Voodoo in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which were all hits on the band's Dabbing Across Europe & UK Spring-Summer 2023 Tour.