Vanity Fare – Complete Recordings 1966-76’ (2015) review
Much more than 2-Hit Wonder British pop rockers! ‘I Live For The Sun: Complete Recordings 1966-76’ by Vanity Fare (RPM Retro D960, 2 CD set, 2015) Best remembered...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Pete La Roca – Basra (1965)
What a sincerely fun piece of work this is ... from the onset, there is a nice heavy bottom created by the piano and bass, evoking an intensely...
Föllakzoid – ‘Föllakzoid’ (2009)
Föllakzoid are nearly unparalleled in the hypnotic lysergic drenched neo-psychedelic experience. The band do several things that other bands traveling this course fail to achieve, first there is...
Chamaeleon Church and The Lost, an interview with Ted Myers
Chamæleon Church – official photo (1968). L to R: Ted Myers, Tony Scheuren, Chevy Chase, Kyle Garrahan. Chamaeleon Church formed in the '60s and were part of so...
Beyond the Silver Sea – Dr. Cosmo’s Tape Lab (2015) review
Beyond the Silver Sea 'Dr. Cosmo’s Tape Lab' (2015) https://drcosmostapelab.bandcamp.com/track/the-painted-birds “Because everything made sense, no-one ever asked if there had ever been anything that didn’t make sense. But...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Cannonball Adderley – Somethin’ Else (1958)
Perhaps I’ve watched too many movies, because I pictured my adventure into the world of Jazz as being more cerebral, more intellectual and more scholarly ... but, to...
Heaven’s Gateway Drugs interview with Derek Mauger
Indiana keeps popping up on my radar for one reason or another even though I try not to lock myself down geographically speaking when it comes to music...
Lutheran interview with Kevin
There are a lot of labels that I could attach to lutheran, a lot of confusing adjectives I could use to describe their music, but that would only...
John Carpenter – Lost Themes (2015) review
John Carpenter 'Lost Themes' (Sacred Bones, 2015) There are few, if any, debut albums that have been as eagerly anticipated this year as John Carpenter’s first non-soundtrack release...
Jackie DeShannon – All the Love “The Lost Atlantic Recordings” (Real Gone Music, 2015) review
Jackie DeShannon - All the Love "The Lost Atlantic Recordings" (Real Gone Music, 2015) This release is remarkably similar to Real Gone’s recently issued Dusty Springfield collection, Faithful....