Mercury Rev will release The Light in You, their eighth album and first since 2008, on September 18 via Bella Union. This is their first album to be made by just Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper, as ...
The cost-free downloads keep on keeping on. This time, psychedelic pop vet Mercury Rev is on board for the giveaway with Strange Attractor, an all-instrumental companion album to their proper release ...
Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can ...
MERCURY REV was formed in Buffalo, New York in the late 1980's. Consistently driven by Jonathan Donahue (vocalist/acoustic guitar), Grasshopper (moth-light guitars, clarinet, tettix wave accumulator), ...
Psych greats The Brian Jonestown Massacre have announced a big North American tour with special guests Mercury Rev joining them for most of it. The tour begins March 27 in Philadelphia with stops in ...
Mercury Rev had a pretty good 2018, mostly because they had a great 1998. Though the band hadn’t released any music in a couple of years, in 2018 they became the beneficiaries of a free promotional ...
Starting in 1991, Buffalo fabulists Mercury Rev have made seven albums of expansive, wide-eyed, majestic psychedelic rock. It’s been a while since they released the last of those albums; Snowflake ...
Mercury Rev is winding down a busy 2006 with two new releases. First up is "The Essential Mercury Rev -- Stillness Breathes 1991-2006," a 32-track, two-disc set blending cuts from the band's first… By ...
Mercury Rev are releasing a new album, Born Horses, on September 6 via Bella Union. Now they have shared its third single, “A Bird of No Address,” via a music video. Watch it below. For Born Horses, ...
Mercury Rev are releasing a new album, Born Horses, on September 6 via Bella Union. Now they have shared its second single, “Ancient Love.” The song is backed by a muted trumpet and tells of a love ...
Veteran experimental rock act Mercury Rev has lined up its first series of North American dates in support of its latest V2 album, "All Is Dream." The trek begins Nov. 22 in Toronto and wraps Dec. 12… ...
Vicar, musician, broadcaster and ex-Communard, The Reverend Richard Coles tells Alex Burrows how music is still important to belief and why parish choirs are the new punk. Portrait by Tim Anderson.