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 […]
Anyone aware of the L. A. power-pop scene of the last ten years or so must be familiar with the name of Tony Perkins, hiding behind the Martin Luther Lennon monicker, which then again, just […]
This is another one of those LONG overdue re-releases, and also being the first ever compiling the complete works of these Glasgowian beatsters. All it took was an enthusiastic fan, which happens to be the […]
Regarded as one of those long-lost psych albums, praised by some and criticised by others, J.D.Blackfoot’s The Ultimate Prophecy, originally released in 1971, is here again for another re-evaluation episode. Besides the original physical division […]
Though they weren’t really a “one hit wonder”, the first, and in most cases probably the only song that the name of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap brings to mind is the orchestrated soft […]
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