Month: April 2005

Among the all-Scottish line up of the first bunch of releases on the brand new Neon Tetra label, managed by the ex-Cosmic Rough Rider, Daniel Wylie, there’s one tiny little exception, brought in by an […]

Clive Palmer, one of the pioneering British folkniks of the early sixties, and founding member of the original Incredible String Band, formed COB (Clive’s Original Band) after spending a couple of years traveling the East, […]

To a diagnosed pop nerd (me included :-)), the involvement of names such as Duglas T.Stewart, Duncan Cameron or David Scott, might be enough to get interested. Another reason, just as strong, could be the […]

Here’s an album written/arranged and produced the way a contemporary pop rock hit record should be. The thing is that most of those “hit” records just aren’t good enough for me, and after the opening […]

Kinda lost among the more famous late sixties/early seventies progressive soul mates, Cressida actually remains one of the surprising finds within the genre. The reason for the band’s obscurity might lie in the not too […]

After the slight confusion regarding the A/B side thing on their debut vinyl (!) single, the Philly band finally straightens things up releasing the (fortunately) one-sided debut CD. After re-creating the British way of re-creating […]

Stating The Who, The Creation and The Kinks as main influences in the press release, usually has an almost magnetic effect on me … which can end up in several different ways. One of those […]

This is a fine example of how it really should be done, for all the newborn garage heads hit by the “white stroke”. Being one of the sixties garage revival pioneers, I must admit that, […]