MOON DUO SHARE NEW TRACK AND ANNOUNCE UK DATES

Moon Duo have shared another track from their forthcoming new album, and announced UK dates for April. The two-piece space rockers have shared Slow Down Low, the second track to be shared from their third album Shadow of the Sun, which will be released on March 2 on Sacred Bones Records. The track follows Animal, […]
Moon Duo have previewed the first track from their upcoming third album, Shadow of the Sun. Animal is the first cut from the LP, which will be released on March 2 on Sacred Bones. The band say the album was recorded in a dark Portland basement in a “rare and uneasy rest period”, without the […]

MOON DUO PREVIEW FIRST TRACK ‘ANIMAL’ FROM THIRD ALBUM

NEWS: MOON DUO LIVE 12″ + TOUR DATES

After the release of 2012’s Circles LP, Moon Duo’s Sanae Yamada and Ripley Johnson relocated the band for the second time since its 2009 formation in San Francisco, this time from Blue River, Colorado to Portland, Oregon. Though the band had been initially conceived as an experiment in maximal sonic possibilities with minimal personnel and […]
‘Back To Land’ is the new album from Wooden Shjips, released November 11th through Thrill Jockey Records. Wooden Shjips’ rise to prominence from the psychedelic underground to the rock and roll overground has been a steady sojourn. With each consecutive release, the band has found new ways of transforming heady psychedelic rock into minimalist masterpieces, […]

NEWS: WOODEN SHJIPS – NEW ALBUM ‘BACK TO LAND’ + TOUR

NEWS: MOON DUO – AUGUST TOUR DATES + HEAR NEW TRACK ‘HIGH OVER BLUE’

The hypnotic-psych duo of Ripley Johnson (Wooden Ships) and Sanae Yamada, MOON DUO, return to the UK next week for a London show & performance at Latitude’s i-Arena stage on Sunday. They have also return for a string of dates around appearances at Green Man & Beacons Festivals next month. To celebrate the news, have a […]
After their recent Rough Trade in store show, which saw the queue to get in stretch right around the block, Moon Duo have confirmed the release of their second full-length LP ‘Circles’ for Oct 1st on Souterrain Transmissions. ‘Circles’ is the product of a long winter’s isolation in the Rocky Mountains, though the road to […]

NEWS: MOON DUO – DOWNLOAD ‘SLEEPWALKER’ FROM THE FORTHCOMING SECOND ALBUM

NEWS: MOON DUO – RECORD STORE DAY 12” + UK LIVE DATES

Coloradan two-piece Moon Duo, formed of Wooden Shjips’ Ripley Johnson and his partner Sanae Yamada, have confirmed a special Record Store Day 12” vinyl release and a string of UK dates. Due to popular demand, 800 white vinyl LPs featuring the remixes of their highly praised 2011 album ‘Mazes’ will be released exclusively on Record […]
For their loosely Halloween-themed EP ‘Horror Tour’, Moon Duo veer away from the sun-drenched tone of their recent LP ‘Mazes’, and towards driving themes from an antique book of spells they discovered at a library sale in rural New Hampshire. Three of the four tracks are instrumental – the titular ‘Horror Tour’ is the exception […]

NEWS: MOON DUO – HORROR TOUR EP LTD ED 12” VINYL (LISTEN TO TITLE TRACK IN FULL)

LIVE REVIEW: Moon Duo – 12/05/2011

– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – I’m here tonight in the ever cool surroundings of The Deaf Institute’s music hall on the strength of one single. Is this right or is this wrong? Who knows, but Moon Duo’s last single ‘Mazes’, has been played to death on my walks to and from work and has […]