Welcome to PopDiggers’ third lesson in Garage Rock School. As the die-hard students you have proved to be by passing the two previous lessons that covered the classic compilations Nuggets and the Pebbles series, you […]
I am not the first to congratulate Seth Bovey for writing a book that fills an important gap in the music history. Garage rock is for some reason sadly under-represented compared to other genres when […]
What a pleasant surprise it was to reconnect with Dogmatics after so many years through their 2019 7” release She’s The One; a 1m44s pop knockout that Buddy Holly should have been proud of. The […]
Here is a selection of my personal favorites of recently recorded albums which are accompanied by one-liners. Hopefully, the spread between genres will help everyone find something new to dig, whether you like this or […]
Tav Falco’s repute as an artist goes back all the way to the 1970s when his countercultural work began in Memphis, Tennessee. He has never been limited to one artistic form of expression during his […]
We finally have the result of what PopDiggers announced more than a year ago in the interview with Will Birch regarding his upcoming biography of Nick Lowe. Will Birch’s seminal book on pub-rock No Sleep […]
PopDiggers fortsätter sin djupdykning i musiktidningen LARMs historia med att intervjua Peter Thulin, ägare av och frontfigur för skivaffären Musik och Konst – en av Malmös kvarvarande sambandscentraler för musik. Peter var på mer än […]
First time browsing through Rich Tupica’s There Was a Light – The Cosmic History of Chris Bell and the Rise of Big Star [HoZac Books, 2018], I must say that I became somewhat doubtful, because […]
It is easy to sympathize with the fact that Big Stir Records has taken its name to pay tribute to Big Star, which also indicates what output is expected from Big Stir. Big Stir Records […]
The Ramones are among the strongest proofs of a mismatch between long time impact and records sold. Their slow burner debut album Ramones acquired status of US gold (500,000 copies) as late as 2014 – […]
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