Albums

With this Californian band’s actual family tree, not having some particularly famous names to mention, except for their frontman and main author, and future power-pop cult figure Bob Segarini, and maybe, from the standpoint of […]

Being hailed in the original 1968 LP liners as “one of the few groups since The Beatles to possess genuine charm”, the members of Gordian Knot probably couldn’t have imagined that they were to end […]

After the recent tribute album on Twist records (reviewed elsewhere on these pages) and just in time to (almost) coincide with the similar complete-re-releases-campaign of soul mates Ed Ball & The Times, one of the […]

As suggested by their previous three titles (also reviewed somewhere around these pages), Stu Rutherford’s (ex-Creature of the Golden Dawn) and Mike Sinocchi’s (an Insomniac) ongoing royal trip through the purple haze of sixties obscurities, […]

Nowadays being regarded as the true ignition of primeval minimalistic garage-punk sound AND attitude, The Monks’ formula of “no-cymbals-only-tom-toms, kickass-bass-from-hell, feedback-guitar-and-electric-sixs-tring-banjo, sarcastic-brutal-organ, against yelling-and-screaming”, as conceived way back in 1965, is still something that the […]

Another thing he’s gettin’, is further down the line on his trip through time .. backwards. After coming down The Stairs’ monoarual garagey take on the mid-to-end ‘60s r’n’beat, he’d moved just a step back, […]

Trying to find a way to fulfill his (not too much of) spare time in between his usual, almost everyday Wrecking Crew duties in 1968, Leon Russel found an “asylum” in his own Skyhill studio, […]

Taking some time off their less interesting everyday roles as session men, producers and authors of (more-or-less) mainstream artists, Seth Swirsky and Mike Ruekberg decided to push “the red button” of their time machine, taking […]