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Ugly Things # 50 – Fifty Reasons to be Cheerful

June 9, 2019 Peter Jönsson 0

This landmark release # 50 of Ugly Things is certainly a very good reason to celebrate its editor Mike Stax and at the same time congratulate all readers of this exquisite music magazine. Mike Stax […]

Articles (English)

Mike Stax – Swim Through The Darkness

February 25, 2018 Peter Jönsson 2

Mike Stax’s multifaceted biography not only brings a story about the almost-a-star-musician Craig Smith, interesting as it is on its own merits, but it also tells about the fickleness of the music industry, how personal […]

Albums

1 2 6 – Graveyard Paradise

September 23, 2008 Garwood Pickjon 0

– The Complete 1 2 6 & Taboo Recordings, 1966-68 – Combining “verbal paintings” of Dylan-ish surrealism with the Northerners’ “extreme sense of humor”, unlike most of their continental contemporaries, these Norwegian beatsters opted not […]

Albums

The Light – Turn On… The Light

November 1, 2007 Garwood Pickjon 0

Continuing his ongoing saga about most everyone from the Riverside area who dared to grow his hair, pick up a guitar or seat behind the drum kit at one moment or another during mid-to-end sixties, […]

Albums

Loons – Paraphernalia

February 10, 2005 Garwood Pickjon 0

The content of this album is actually a perfect match of the band’s front man Mike Stax’s whereabouts, being an Englishman on the American west coast. After an almost exclusively mid-’60s r’n’b/garage approach with The […]

Albums

The Misunderstood – The Lost Acetates 1965-1966

July 5, 2004 Garwood Pickjon 0

However sure you might’ve been that Before The Dream Faded on Cherry Red was the essence of The Misunderstood’s recorded output, this one is just as essential, up to the point that, from now on, […]

De é bra LARM

  • Peter Thulin – LARM i mitt hjärta

    Peter Thulin – LARM i mitt hjärta

    November 29, 2019 0
    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 [...]
  • Att skapa LARM – ett rockfanzine som frälste Sverige
    May 8, 2018 2
  • Kinks – i mitt huvud Del 2
    June 16, 2018 2
  • Kalle Oldby minns mer och mer av LARM…
    September 15, 2018 6
  • The Sonics
    March 21, 2017 0

Singles Going Steady

  • The Phantom Keys – In The Summertime
    September 7, 2008 0
  • The Miracle Men – Don’t Hide Your Love
    May 16, 2006 0
  • The Embrooks – Jack
    February 19, 2003 0
  • Darron J Connett – (Gotta Keep Your) Soul Clean
    December 1, 2006 0
  • The Maharajas – Weekend Sparks EP
    December 14, 2006 0

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Richard Snow – I’m On My Way

The Summer Suns – Kim Williams interview

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