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Did The Beatles destroy rock ’n’ roll?

January 21, 2026 0

Yours truly has just raised the premium on his life insurance, because there can be nasty consequences when you criticize an album that has been put on a pedestal for a very long time. On […]

Bloodshot Bill – Keep Movin’ On

October 25, 2025 0

SinglesGoingSteady#07: Bloodshot Bill – Keep Movin’ On [Pig Baby Records; 2018] It’s a tough task to pick just one 7” from Bloodshot Bill’s impressive catalog of records, which began building in 2001, but someone has […]

The Manikins – Spend The Night Alone

September 23, 2025 0

SinglesGoingSteady#06: The Manikins – Spend The Night Alone [Plastic Idol Records; 2006] Spend The Night Alone is picked from The Manikins’ third album Lie Cheat & Steal [P. Trash Records, 2005]. It’s a jet-powered power […]

Problematik i kubik – Del 3 (1983–2023)

September 4, 2025 1

I tredje och sista avsnittet av Problems diskografi följer Stefan Ahlqvist upp del 2 genom att berätta om Problems skivutgivning under senare år. Henrik Herrströms avhopp förändrar Problem i grunden. Problem fortsätter först som trio, […]

The Bobbyteens – I Wanna Go Home

July 26, 2025 1

SinglesGoingSteady#05: The Bobbyteens – I Wanna Go Home [Outer Universe Research Records; 1998] When the female California-bred updated answer to The Trashmen, The Trashwomen, disbanded in the middle of the 1990’s, Trashwomen Tina Lucchesi and […]

Problematik i kubik – Del 2 (1979–1982)

July 3, 2025 1

I del 2 av Problematik i kubik fortsätter Stefan Ahlqvist berättelsen från del 1 om Problems skivutgivning – denna gång handlar det om åren mellan 1979 och 1982. Trots alla fina ord i tidningarna om […]

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Stiv Bators & Jeff Jones "Not That Way Anymore" / "Circumstantial Evidence" [Bomp!, BOMP 128], 1980.

Happy Birthday Jeff Jones alias "Frankie Fiend" a.k.a. @franksecich

Have a great day my friend!

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Happy birthday to mother Berit. 90 years today!

I wasn't allowed to take a new picture so here is a slightly older photo.

And that beautiful smile is still the same.

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The Kinks act nice and gentle.

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Misspelled The Easybeats "Heven And Hell" / "Pretty Girl" [United Artists, UA 67106]. Norwegian release 1967.

From "The Definitive Anthology" Harry Vanda remembers:

"We were feeling a bit stuffed by this time and we felt Jeezus, we've got to come up with something different, and I think we did with "Heaven And Hell". I think it's a very exciting, inventive track, except that the BBC didn't want to know about it, because we used the word 'hell'. That wasn't allowed. "How can you say 'hell' on the radio?". It was bloody frustrating as hell."

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is #nowplaying Uni Boys "Buy This Now!" [Curation Records, CURED034], 2023. And also #nowreading Remember The Lightning "Vol. 2", 2023.

Fabulous evening.

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More info @uni.boyss

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Happy birthday Paul Weller.

I have recently moved and then found things I didn't think were still there. Among other things, this The Jam t-shirt and scarf. I should have bought them in Lund in 1981. The photo is from 1980, at Olympen in Lund.

Much to my chagrin, mom cut off the sleeves of the t-shirt. I had played so much floorball in it and apparently she couldn't get it clean anymore. Otherwise great quality. ☺️

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is #nowplaying Gene Clark "No Other Sessions" [4AD, 4AD0683LPE], 2024.

Really great vinyl pressing. Wonderful RSD release.

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The Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man" [Columbia, CS 9172], 6/1965.

In "360 SOUND" STEREO "360 SOUND". Note the black lettering on the label.

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The Moondogs "Who's Gonna Tell Mary" / "Overcaring Parents" [Real Records, ARE 13], 10/1980.

Good vibrations from the Northern Irish power pop band.

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Did The Beatles destroy rock ’n’ roll?

January 21, 2026 0

Yours truly has just raised the premium on his life insurance, because there can be nasty consequences when you criticize an album that has been put on a pedestal for a very long time. On […]

This article is sadly prompted by the untimely death of Andrew Matheson. It is a translation and reworking of my previous appreciation of Andrew Matheson & The Brats’ debut album Grown up Wrong, published in […]

Peter’s Twenty Favourite Albums 2024

January 18, 2025 0

As tradition calls for since 2015, here’s twenty personal favourites among newly recorded albums released in 2024. Each album comes with a commentary and a featured track as a taster. Most artists have been around […]

Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders – Tells Us All A Story/Prison Of Love (single)

March 11, 2022 0

Even though the album … There’s Pretty Things in Palookaville … from last year, by Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders, was fully packed, there are even more recordings in the pipeline waiting for release. Pat […]

Jeremy Scott – Bear Grease (album)

February 23, 2022 1

Jeremy Scott is best known from his work with Harlan T. Bobo and the Memphis-based bands The Toy Trucks and, maybe foremost, Reigning Sound – currently in the spotlight with the album A Little More […]

Alan Vega – After Dark (album)

September 24, 2021 0

This second unearthing in 2021 from the late Alan Vega (1938–2016) archive, the posthumous After Dark (In The Red Recordings), is very reminiscent of Alan Vegas’ two-day improvisation with Alex Chilton, which materialized as Cubist […]

Reigning Sound – A Little More Time with Reigning Sound (album)

June 17, 2021 0

As Jeremy Scott, the bassist of Reigning Sound, commented a while ago on PopDiggers’ announcement of Merge Records’ re-issue of Abdication…For Your Love – Plus, Reigning Sound had an album underway – seven years after […]

He’s Bad! 11 Bands Decimate The Beats of Bo Diddley (6×7” box, various artists)

May 22, 2021 0

Slovenly Recordings’/Black Gladiator‘s limited edition box set contains six 7” with Bo Diddley-related material – all are covers of Elias McDaniel’s or his co-conspirators originals. Some of them are well known while others are rare. […]

Bad Nerves – Bad Nerves (album, 2020)

February 22, 2021 0

Bad Nerves is an East London quintet with three singles in the baggage before this self-titled debut album was released in late 2020. It’s full throttle from start to finish with twelve songs in less […]

Olofssons Lost Treasures – Vol. 2

June 13, 2019 0

Efter ytterligare tolv artiklar och två specialartiklar är det ännu en gång dags att summera dem med en spellista. Det är också dags att ta en längre paus, efter att under drygt sju intensiva månader […]

Finnkampen i sextiotalspop

May 30, 2019 0

Olofssons Lost Treasures erkänner villigt att kunskaperna i finländsk pophistoria lämnar mycket övrigt att önska. Men nu, när Finland vann Hockey-VM och den första Finnkampen i sextiotalspop, är det hög tid att sätta sig i […]

The Outer Limits – klassisk engelsk sextiotalspop

May 17, 2019 1

För några veckor sedan skrev Olofssons Lost Treasures om staden Leeds i samband med artikeln om Christine Quaite. Varför inte ta och återvända dit för att berätta om mannen bakom en av pophistoriens stora landsplågor. […]

Hedge & Donna – det vackraste!

May 10, 2019 0

I förra veckan beskrev jag Smokey and His Sisters melodier som hänförande och fjäderlätta, med stämmor som nästan bad om ursäkt för sin existens. Denna vecka återanvänder jag temat men går ytterligare ett steg längre. […]

A Genius and His Music

May 3, 2019 0

Nej, veckans Olofssons Lost Treasures ska inte handla om A Man And His Music, men väl om ett annat musikaliskt geni, vars hänförande och fjäderlätta melodier med klassiska förtecken får hin håle själv att bli […]

Christine sixteen – and Quaite charming

April 12, 2019 0

Två av mina guilty pleasures är The Moody Blues (perioden 1967–1972) och The Carpenters, men de som redan börjar skruva på sig av rädsla för att Olofssons Lost Treasures ska vidröra någon av de grupperna […]

Hugh Barker and Yuval Taylor – Faking It

August 13, 2020 0

I finally got to read Faking It after all these years. But this time gap matters less, since the framed topic is still valid and maybe even more relevant today. The question of authenticity is […]

Dogmatics are back for sure!

February 8, 2020 0

What a pleasant surprise it was to reconnect with Dogmatics after so many years through their 2019 7” release She’s The One; a 1m44s pop knockout that Buddy Holly should have been proud of. The […]

The Third Wave of Big Stir Singles

September 12, 2019 0

It is easy to sympathize with the fact that Big Stir Records has taken its name to pay tribute to Big Star, which also indicates what output is expected from Big Stir. Big Stir Records […]

Gabba Gabba Hey Ho

August 9, 2019 0

The Ramones are among the strongest proofs of a mismatch between long time impact and records sold. Their slow burner debut album Ramones acquired status of US gold (500,000 copies) as late as 2014 – […]

Reigning Sound: Abdication…For Your Love – plus

August 3, 2019 2

Superstitious people may say that Greg Cartwright’s lucky stars must have been aligned when he was approached by the car company Toyota’s US “Generation Y brand” Scion in 2011 to make a promotion record. All […]

Ugly Things # 50 – Fifty Reasons to be Cheerful

June 9, 2019 0

This landmark release # 50 of Ugly Things is certainly a very good reason to celebrate its editor Mike Stax and at the same time congratulate all readers of this exquisite music magazine. Mike Stax […]

Lenny Kaye – Lightning Striking

July 9, 2022 0

Lenny Kaye is a household name to most of us through his dedicated commitment to music; either on the stage as guitarist with Patti Smith or occupied behind the desk writing articles in many music […]

DEAD MAN’S CURVE: Mark A. Moore relives The Rock ‘n’ Roll Life of JAN BERRY

April 8, 2022 0

I must confess that prior to the red-hot July of 1964, I’d never ever heard anything quite like Tommy Morgan’s harmonica solo on The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) …Dylan vinyl having not yet infiltrated […]

Seth Bovey – Five Years Ahead of My Time

February 22, 2020 0

I am not the first to congratulate Seth Bovey for writing a book that fills an important gap in the music history. Garage rock is for some reason sadly under-represented compared to other genres when […]

Problematik i kubik – Del 3 (1983–2023)

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Problematik i kubik – Del 2 (1979–1982)

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Problematik i kubik

May 24, 2025 1

Alla som är rimligt intresserade av svensk rockmusik bör någon gång ha stött på Malmöbandet Problem, inte minst eftersom de var pionjärer inom svensk garagerock i slutet av 1970-talet. Om ni händelsevis inte skulle vara […]