Month: September 2005

Seeing in the press release that the first rock’n’roll record this guy remembers hearing is Gary Lewis & The Playboys’ This Diamond Ring, and then the first one he actually bought was The Beatles IV, […]

Releasing an album on a record label called Wild Thing, depending on whose reaction are you looking at, might suggest a mid’60s garage punk influenced r’n’beat, or maybe even some contemporary heavy rawkin’, but in […]

As they put it themselves at the headquarters where these musical voyages are being conducted from, this CD series is “devoted to unearthing rare and intriguing 45’s from the mid ‘60s through the early ‘70s”, […]

Well, I suppose there’s not much more albums out there that were so eagerly awaited like this one. The first impression is that the (almost) thirty year wait was worth enough to place it alongside […]

Evie Sands is another character in the long line of those whose name is being mentioned among the “small circle of friends” and true aficionados, and whose songs (well at least some of them) are […]

According to the accompanying liners, provided by their soulmate Paul Bevoir, if his own band The Jetset, were The Monkees of the mid’80s swinging(again) London scene, and if The Times were The Kinks, then The […]

If you’ve already read the first part of the Frost records story (available elsewhere on these pages), you should be familiar with the label’s mission to make available, practically EVERYTHING ever released throughout the sixties […]

After introducing itself through the pair of contemporary mod-revival-laden compilations (Shake! & Shout! … reviewed elsewhere on PopDiggers pages) and a Mod-Aid charity single, here’s the first bunch of equally MODernistic EPs, bringing back the […]