From Minneapolis via Madison, Wisconsin comes another band to disrupt my ignorance. This is their fourth album, not a stitch of the previous three had I heard before this, and still haven’t. Nor any of […]
Richard Snow is a singer songwriter born and brought up in Nottingham in England. He used to be a member in the band Enellen, and a couple of other bands, in the 1990’s. He now […]
You know what I was doing precisely forty-eight years ago, February 9? Sitting far too close in front of my family’s Zenith television, bouncing up and down to the hitherto-unheard – not to mention utterly […]
Never as naughty as the Rolling Stones, nor as pin-up perfect as Herman’s Hermits; seldom as musically adventurous as the Yardbirds, nitty-gritty as the Animals, or full-on bombastic as The Who. Of course, as truly […]
The Wrong Words – The Wrong Words [Trouble In Mind/2011] As always I’m a bit out of the loop, though being 3000 miles away might be considered a mitigating factor, even in this “wired” aged. […]
The Hep Stars with It’s Been A Long Time written by Benny Andersson and Lasse Berghagen. Yes, that Benny of later ABBA fame (you’ll see him here in the black coat). This video clip is […]
From Where The Action Is! July 7, 1965. They also did “Mr. Tambourine Man” at the same show.
The Ugly Beats – Motor! [Get Hip/2010] This Austin, Texas’ combo is back for a third go-round. They’ve gone whole hog this time with the Univox-sounding organ (think “Telstar”). The variegation of ‘60s pop-rock sub-genres […]
Precisely fifty-three years since the music supposedly died, TEN REASONS WHY BUDDY HOLLY STILL MATTERS 1. THE CHIRPING CRICKETS Buddy Holly, alongside rhythm guitarist Niki Sullivan, bassist Joe B. Mauldin, and drummist-extraordinaire Jerry Allison, formed […]
ALL TIME TOP TEN POWER POP PEOPLE (in chronological order) Certainly we could all be arguing blue-faced until that mythical Next Big Thing finally arrives over just what exactly IS Pop, Powerful or otherwise. Why, […]
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