Articles by Peter Jönsson

Link Wray’s original 1958 Rumble is probably the only instrumental that has been banned on the radio (because it alleged invitation to street violence). Rumble started a new career track for Link Wray, making him […]

Royal Pendletons’ 7” A-side (I’m a) Sore Loser [Sympathy for the Record Industry; 1998] – backed with the intriguing instrumental Boo’s Bash – is in this case a can opener for the 30 song soundtrack […]

No One To Cry To with the Beatosonics on the excellent CD compilation Souvenirs: Little Gems of Pop [Sound Asleep Records, 2009] caught my interest a little bit extra when I learned that it was […]

The director Jim Jarmusch [born 1953] has a long-standing relation to music, shown in different ways by his filmography, but Gimme Danger – The Story of The Stooges is his first film entirely built around […]

This Memphis garage gem from 1965/66 was produced by Roland Janes (1933–2013) – Sun Records’ legendary session guitarist between 1956 and 1963 – in his Sounds recording studio and originally released on the ARA label, […]

Never Get Away is one of the eleven well-kept together tracks on The Waldos’ only album Rent Party [Sympathy for the Record Industry, 1994; Jungle, 2013, enhanced CD] which sounds just like The Heartbreakers of […]

It was rewarding to revive the familiarity with The Cramps through Dick Porter’s book Journey to the Centre of the Cramps [Omnibus Press, 2015; review here]. Reading this book alerted a train of associations that […]

Bubbling under my 20 list – and also stressed by the great Raised on Records’ best of 2017 blog – is one of the finest recent Swedish albums. One-man garage band Råttanson’s Full-Scale Shakeability really […]