The Brad Shepik Trio at the 2017 Ballard Jazz Festival Guitar Summit Thursday May 18th
Brad Shepik, who was raised in the Seattle area, began playing guitar at the age of 10 and studied music with the likes of Ralph Towner and John...
Spiritualized in Other Medications (2017)
With a pocket full of lush celestial narcotics and this wasted sonically layered infusion of Spiritualized covers, laid down lovingly by some of the best of those influenced...
Merrell Fankhauser And H.M.S. Bounty – ‘Things’ (1968)
Following the breakup of Fapardokly, guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Merrell Fankhauser and guitarist/vocalist Bill Dodd of the band set off for Los Angeles to pursue a record deal, while band members...
Human Ottoman at Seaprog 2017 in Seattle Sunday June 4th
Human Ottoman is a prog rock band from Portland who “actively ear-pillage” the Pacific Northwest US. Their lineup features Julian Kosanovic playing cello, Grayson Fiske playing vibraphone, and...
A Quick Q & A with author Vernon Joynson
Hi Vernon, Congratulations on your newest work, A Melange Of Musical Pipedreams And Pandemonium and thank you for taking the time to answer a few questions for our...
Spaced Out: The Story of Mushroom Records
(Grapefruit/Cherry Red CRSEG036D; 77.38, 75.04) Label retrospectives are released nowadays thick and fast as smog in Poland. Some compilations put together what doesn’t always seem to be linked,...
The discovery of Stonewall, the great lost artefact of hard rock
Stonewall recorded one of the most obscure hard rock albums of the 1970s. It was released in 1976 on a label called “Tiger Lily.” According to Assalti, drummer...
Fapardokly – ‘Fapardokly’ (1967)
Formed from the remnants of Merrell and The Exiles in 1967, Fapardokly was formed, and is a both delightful and important documentation of musical growth of guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Merrell...
Glitterbust – “Glitterbust” (2016) review
Glitterbust - Glitterbust (Burger Records, 2016) Glitterbust is one of the more odd and energetic albums that’s come my way in a very long time. It’s impossible to...
“Pharmacopious” (Part 3) by Jenell Kesler
Wouldn’t want to speculate, but there must have been something in the wind that reached out, turned up my collar and set me here peering in through Gram’s...