Though more than two thirds of The Rookies debut longplayer consists of covers, these Italian retro garage punkers make such a cool choice that you can’t help but forgive it all. However, the four originals […]
According to their own origin, this Italian bunch of mop-topped beatsters, usually finds themselves halfway between Euro-freakbeat and a tad rawer American garage punk, throwing around pebbles’n’rubbles’n’grains. Alternatively, with the resulting sound mostly being reminiscent […]
When it comes to the contemporary beat scene, being lead by a pair of Indikation-related members (one ex and one still with them) might be as good a reference for a band as any, if […]
Volume 1: Groovy British Blue-eyed Soul, Beat, R&B, Hammond Movers Volume 2: Beat, Pop-soul & Freakbeat From Europe 1966-1970 Compiled from vinyl sources exclusively, as they say, by collectors for collectors, both of these comps […]
As they put it themselves, two Beatle freaks teaming up with a Floyd freak and making musical left-turns, would be the easiest way to describe this album, though it’s more than obvious that there’s really […]
– The Complete Recordings 1967-68 – If chasing Paul McCartney through Hyde Park for an Apple publishing deal, impressing Epstein and Lennon with demos, singing about John Mayall, getting a song almost released by Alan […]
Third time in a row, since the late ‘90s, James Macdonald is being hailed as Aussie’s own Beatlemaniac, in the vein of the likes of Elliot Smith or Neil Finn, with the whole bunch of […]
Even though the ageing is clearly audible in his voice, the traces of a one-time folk-rock luminary are just as evident on the brand new album by the ex-Beau Brummels frontman, Sal Valentino. In accordance […]
– Selected tracks 1984-2004 – Never over exposed, but ever-present on the international pop scene, Bill Lloyd’s 20-year (and still running!) career spawned a handful of genre defining examples of (power) pop/Americana. What he’s the […]
Updating the melodic ways of pop luminaries such as Paul McCartney and his staples, Emitt Rhodes and Pete Ham, as well as predating the craft of contemporary songsmiths as Brendan Benson or Bart Davenport, it’s […]
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