Albums

Being remembered mostly for a couple of trivia details such as ND Smart’s previous involvement with The Remains, as well as the later one with Mountain and Gram Parsons, or the pre-fame presence of Barbara […]

For those used to wearing power-pop “shoes” over the years, the name of Jeff Murphy shouldn’t be an unknown one, because it’s those very same Shoes, that he started to wear way back in the […]

There are several reasons why the name of Mars Bonfire should be regarded as quite an important entry in every rock’n’roll related encyclopedia, and while being as good as any itself, none of these reasons […]

Fronted by the Top 4 Finalist in Folk Category of the 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Competition, and the band’s primary author, Ed Woltil, along with an ex-Barely Pink leader Brian Merrill, this one fits pretty […]

Not so much because of the songs themselves (8 out of 10 being covers), nor an originality of the sound neither, but The Fire Escape’s only release on GNP-Crescendo (1967) is still being regarded as […]

In spite of it being considered for one quarter of “Capitol’s most-collectable psych LPs (along with Gandalf, The Common People and Euphoria)”, I wouldn’t call Food’s only album, released in 1969, an underrated classic of […]

Having been doing so much research about some of the coolest bands/artists gracing the pop universe, it’s no wonder that scanning the back of Andrew Sandoval’s mind might’ve shown an archive of songs never written […]

After last year’s expanded re-release of their 1979 Play Faster album on Aztec Music (reviewed elsewhere on these pages), and after being considered to be too-hip-to-be-hip for too long of a time, the self proclaimed […]