Pontiak

Brooklyn Vegan — by Doug Moore Pontiak at Austin Psych Fest 2011 (more by Tim Griffin) Virginian psych rockers Pontiak are releasing their newest effort, INNOCENCE, this week (1/28) via Thrill Jockey (pre-order). We're premiering the band-made music video for "Wildfi... more info

Impose Magazine — The title of Pontiak's newest record, Innocence, might be a little misleading. In the debut single, a song with the same name, there is so much pounding, overt guitar sludge that it reminds us of what it's like to lose our innocence, pleading... more info

Impose Magazine — Pontiak have been faithfully recording extreme psychedelic jam albums since the mid aughts. The three brothers, who just released their seventh album Echo Ono, are embarking on a large United States tour on April 4, beginning in Raleigh and circling ... more info

Stereogum — Brotherly Virginia sludge-rock power-trio Pontiak is about to drop the new album Echo Ono; we posted the video for first single “Lions Of Least” last month. Now they’ve made another video, for the Echo Ono track “Royal Colors,” in which sin... more info

Impose Magazine — This week we learned that Earl Sweatshirt has been released from his Samoan juvenile penitentiary via twitter followed by the hyped track "Home", while fellow OFGWFTA member Domo Genesis recorded "Ground Up" with Wiz Khalifa. Also the looming threat ... more info

411 Mania — This week's MBML has news on President Obama's indie ties and an indie newbie already earning reissues of his first two albums. Also, I've got new downloads and music videos featuring The Lighthouse and the Whaler, Elephant and Castle, Pontiak, and ... more info

Stereogum — Late last year, we posted “Lions Of Least,” the new slab of rumbling psychedelic thunder from Pontiak, the band made up of three heavily bearded brothers, all stand-up dudes. The track now has a video, directed by Pontiak themselves, that takes t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Pontiak - "Lions of Least"(MP3) White Hills at Terminal 5 (more by BBG) "White Hills' sound has changed a bit compared to its catalog, particularly on the two songs enhanced by Oneida's Kid Millions' drums. Hawkwind's big riffs-in-space sou... more info

Stereogum — The three dudes in Pontiak are brothers who live together on a compound farm sort of thing in Virginia and make awesomely heavy slabs of psych-rock. They are also, I should probably point out, very good friends of mine, but that is not why you should... more info

Altsounds — Pontiak's Comecrudos, which is due for release on Thrill Jockey in June 2011, was created as a soundtrack to the bold landscape the band encountered on a drive from Phoenix to the Big Bend area of Texas. The brothers; Van, Lain, and Jennings, were ca... more info