Year: 2005

Though initially intended only for the domestic market, thankfully, these re-releases of Danish beat legacy managed to find its way across the border too, proving that each of the bands had at least a song […]

To cut the long story short, during the mid’70s, everybody thought they were The Beatles in disguise (which they weren’t, of course), by the end of the decade everybody was accusing them for trying to […]

Coming from Hamburg, one of the “cradles” where it all started, The Monocaines are as good a continuation as any, of what was happening in their hometown’s notorious Star club, while the beat groups were […]

There must be some kind of a sixties radiation dust hanging over Sweden, sawing the seeds of the times gone by, after which all of these beat, mod, garage-and-whatever-else ‘60s-inspired bands are shooting up like […]

Getting even further “away from the numbers”, after The Datson Four’s 2002 ‘65/’66 Carnaby styled audio postcard, followed by the re-named High Dials’ Zombified mod-ernisms the next year, with this new one, they finally manage […]

Though this one arrived too late to make my last year’s best-albums list, it sure does deserve a place on it. Considering the fact that they come from Japan, it’s no wonder that their ‘60s […]

Another one in Wizzard in Vinyl’s “Retrospective Power-Pop Gems” series, The Explosives came as a complete unknown to these ears, though some of the references, such as themselves serving as fellow Texan, Roky Erickson’s backing […]

Gathering ex-members of Rochester garage punk revival heavy weights such as The Chesterfield Kings and The Projectiles, The Riviera Playboys could be considered a super-group of sorts. The last time I’d heard from them, was […]