Daniel Stewart
California Dream Logicking
Most modern music tagged as psychedelic at best resembles the jittery head spins of two cups of black coffee. With tentative reverb puddles the only nod to tripping, these are tame bands embellishing their dull college rock with download hype.
Articulate Songsters
The Twerps write lazy, meandering tunes that feel like swinging in a shady hammock while the rest of your party plays backyard cricket-think the Go Betweens if they were informed less by romantic poetry and more by the plots of Pixar animations.