Collectors of private press albums and singles released during the progressive rock ’70s—records now discovered via unauthorized digital represses, most infamously by the defunct Radioactive Records shingle—mistakenly interchange...
This reporter was sitting around in his kitchen one night when the phone rang, and it was Jim Morrison’s brother-in-law of 22 years, Liverpool, England’s Alan Graham calling....
Skaboob discovered the UK 2 Tone ska revival led by Jerry Dammers at age 15, including bands like the Specials, Bad Manners, the Selecter, the (English) Beat, the...
When a U.S. progressive music fan reminisces of Atlanta, Georgia’s WPLO-FM, they affectionately recall ex-WQXI newscaster Ed Shane who became the first program director for WPLO’s newly format-flipped,...
First I had my difficulties with the term “Mod” because I tried to find the leitmotif in this Genré but there was none. I think the best way...
The UK’s incredibly rich space rock scene has managed to continue to thrive, despite the lockdown and the dangers of the pandemic over the past two years. This...
One night about a month ago, Pat Fish (born Patrick Huntrods on 20 December, 1957), and also known as the Jazz Butcher, was posting a video apologizing for...
'Hey Joe' did not begin or end with Jimi Hendrix. The legend of 'Hey Joe' has a fascinating history of who exactly wrote it (heated debates), what the...
With the recent passing of Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green at the age of 73, rock lost one its last remaining mad geniuses from the heady days of...
My first exposure to the term “acid rock” came just before I attended my first rock concert in 1980. The opening act that night was a newly formed...