11.Aug.2010 Absolute Sound
Off the back of their inspired performance at the KPFA studio, here is host Derk Richardson’s review of “Naked, Stoned & Stabbed” from Absolute Sound magazine.
08.Jul.2010 Mushroom Gig Posters
Mushroom have two shows coming up in the Bay Area later this month – the Make Out Room in San Francisco on 23rd July, and the Starry Plough in Berkeley on 24th July. Here are the posters for each show…
01.Jul.2010 Mushroom Release Parties
Mushroom have two shows coming up in celebration of the release of “Naked, Stoned & Stabbed” – which has been in KUSF’s top five albums by local bands for weeks… The first show is Friday July 23rd at the Make Out Room in San Francisco (with McCabe & Mrs. Miller featuring long time Mushroom collaborator Alison Levy). The second [...]
17.Jun.2010 Signal To Noise
Signal To Noise magazine says Mushroom’s Naked, Stoned & Stabbed “is a psychedelic hodgepodge of rock, folk, fusion, and Indian influences”.
02.Jun.2010 delicious, delumptious, delirious
“An intoxicating and understated cosmic moonshine”
29.May.2010 Mushroom at #2 in the Charts
“Naked, Stoned & Stabbed” is at #2 on KUSF’s local chart and #11 overall… I just hope all this success doesn’t go to their head! There’s also been some more great reviews in the last week; All About Jazz saying it “feels like a milestone for modern progressive guitar bands”.
24.May.2010 Perfect instrumental experimentation
“Naked, Stoned & Stabbed is Mushroom’s first recording in three years and was recorded in all of a weekend. But it’s precisely this impromptu spirit that brings out the inspiring emotional candor of these instrumental tracks. Like a super group comprised of Phish mid-jam, Coltrane mid-frenzy, and Leo Kottke mid-emotion, they are Mushroom, and this [...]
21.May.2010 A truly enthralling album
“Well there’s a nice surprise. An uninspired band name, a fairly grim title, a dispiritingly tacky looking cover – and a truly enthralling album… this is one of the most surprising and absorbing releases you’re likely to hear this year”
14.May.2010 All About Jazz
“Naked, Stoned & Stabbed plays so cohesively from beginning to end that it might have been conceived and performed as one single piece, divided by its natural movements into tracks, and then each track arbitrarily given some whimsical title (“Celebration at Big Sur (The Sound of the Gulls Outside of Room 124),” for example). And [...]
04.May.2010 Float on, ladies and gentleman
Another Mushroom review, this time from the wonderful Shindig! magazine