Month: December 2004

After a couple of compilation appearances (mostly on their hometown based Viper label), here’s an album worth of unreleased tracks, recorded between ’89-’94, and all (co)written by The Onset front man and The La’s founding […]

As usual, the Radioactive label makes available another one of the so called “collector’s dreams”. Fresh Air’s only album is something that the late’60s psych fans are waiting to “breathe in” ever since it’s original […]

After hearing their complete output, the often used description of The Loot as “minor-league Troggs” seems ridiculous. Though they do come from the same Andover, Hempshire, neighborhood and there are some undeniable similarities brought in […]

Mainly known because of their later incarnation as Blue Oyster Cult , Stalk-Forrest Group’s unreleased (at the time) ‘69/’70 Elektra album, should be of interest to any West Coast psychead. Besides a couple of tunes […]

Throwing around the names of Jellyfish-and-related (The Grays, Falkner solo, Imperial Drag, Umajets …) had become a common thing in reviewing the contemporary power-pop genre, but it’s pretty rare actually, that the band lives up […]

The first of the three promotional EPs to come (hence the title), announcing the new album (to be titled ****) in 2005, shows the New York band still wearing their late’60s-post-mod-psych “badge”, along the productional […]

Experiencing this CD might be a rather surprising one, starting from the very moment you notice the cover-art… from a distance, from where it might look like kinda like The Thrills’ debut. When you finally […]

For those of you familiar with the Mersey-flavoured Americana of the Israeli guy E.T. Doolin, released on his debut, self-titled CD last year, this one takes him, along with his wife Tadlik and a friend, […]