Fronted by the Top 4 Finalist in Folk Category of the 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Competition, and the band’s primary author, Ed Woltil, along with an ex-Barely Pink leader Brian Merrill, this one fits pretty […]
Not so much because of the songs themselves (8 out of 10 being covers), nor an originality of the sound neither, but The Fire Escape’s only release on GNP-Crescendo (1967) is still being regarded as […]
In spite of it being considered for one quarter of “Capitol’s most-collectable psych LPs (along with Gandalf, The Common People and Euphoria)”, I wouldn’t call Food’s only album, released in 1969, an underrated classic of […]
Having been doing so much research about some of the coolest bands/artists gracing the pop universe, it’s no wonder that scanning the back of Andrew Sandoval’s mind might’ve shown an archive of songs never written […]
After last year’s expanded re-release of their 1979 Play Faster album on Aztec Music (reviewed elsewhere on these pages), and after being considered to be too-hip-to-be-hip for too long of a time, the self proclaimed […]
Starting out as “a side project to the psychedelic stoner group”, Baby Woodrose has grown to become a main vehicle for making the band’s kaleidoscopic, mostly ‘60s-influenced, and not-so-stoned visions, receptive to a much wider […]
Getting under the shade of The Royal Purple Umbrella almost three years late myself, I’m happy to suggest that this might be your own shelter from the moderndaze as well. What started out as an […]
Having arrived just a bit late to shake some serious “action” on the POPISM list of “Best re-releases in 2006”, I consider these (sky)high contenders anyway … and I mean like POW!!! The first one […]
With a “spookily similar career trajectory during the second half of the sixties”, to the one of Graham Gouldman, as put by Andy Morten in the accompanying liners, Tony Hazzard also happens to be among […]
When it comes to the Americans and the British throwing each other’s influences back and forth, the debut album of this Baltimore bunch seems like a great example of the so called ping-pong effect, being […]
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