Various Artists – Shimmy
After the first two volumes urging you to Shake and Shout (both reviews elsewhere on these pages), here’s the label’s latest installment, that is sure to make you not only shake’n’shout, but shimmy as well. […]
After the first two volumes urging you to Shake and Shout (both reviews elsewhere on these pages), here’s the label’s latest installment, that is sure to make you not only shake’n’shout, but shimmy as well. […]
Being hailed as one of the umpteenth “next big things” appearing all over every year, and provoking lines such as “set the standard for the second Britpop revolution and swaggering stadium-filling rock brilliance”, might not […]
Seeing an artwork that is an obvious “cry” for The Beatles’ Help, you just find yourself wishing and hoping that that there’s more to it than just a witty cover and song titles such as […]
Not really original, but an extremely groovy band name, an album title suggestive enough to make you get a ticket like now (!), a kaleidoscopic art work, four guys hanging round the seaside that might […]
I’ve never really had a proper chance to dig deeper into the legacy of NRBQ, so even though Tom Staley’s “first line up drummer” reference does seem interesting, quite honestly, I wasn’t really sure what […]
– The Definitive Collection – Mostly dealing with the softer side of the late’60s soundtrack, after he’d just had his share of “Fun and Games” in Houston, famed LA producer Gary Zekley’s second pick from […]
In spite of him being present up-around’n’down-under the scene through pop mutants of different kinds (Swivel, Hazey Jane) for some ten years now, this still happens to be my very first encounter with Bryan Estepa. […]
Having been overshadowed by their “temporary” band name, which a couple of them have been using while backing Neil Young, The Rockets never managed to get off the Crazy Horse ride, in order to continue […]
Having more than enough British origins within their changing line-up, The Purple Hearts made sure that the mid’60s r’n’b boom shakes the Oz ground just as hard as it did in Britain. Featuring the band’s […]
– More Pop-psych Sounds From The Apple Era 1967-1969 – A sequel to 94 Baker Street Songs, An Apple A Day offers us a “bite even further into the Apple”, providing no less than 15 […]
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