The Five Stairsteps – Our Family Portrait/Stairsteps (2014) review
The Five Stairsteps "Our Family Portrait/Stairsteps" (Real Gone Music/Soul Music Records, 2014) The Five Stairsteps were a family soul band from Chicago who had a big hit...
Reviews
Mugstar/Cosmic Dead – ‘Breathing Mirror’ / ‘Fukahyoucastaluh’ (2014)
What to hell to do with 20 minutes of vinyl and an overactive imagination? Turn two of Britain’s cosmic spaced-out cowboys loose and hope for the best. Which...
Merrell Fankhauser And The Exiles, The Velvetones, and Fapardokly – ‘The Lost Desert Tapes’ (2014)
Since the early sixties, Merrell Fankhauser has been cranking out a steady stream of exceptional music, encompassing everything from surf rock instrumentals to pop to folk rock to...
Balduin – All In A Dream (2014) review & interview
Balduin "All In A Dream" (Sunstone Records, 2014) I was just thinking there, after listening to this astonishingly groovy set again, and also some of Balduin's previous Rainbow...
Sun Zoom Spark – Left For Dead (2014) review
Sun Zoom Spark “Left For Dead” (SlowBurn Records, 2014) “Left For Dead” began its life 13 years ago when poet John Galuska invited the trio to contribute music...
Lonely Kamel – Shit City (2014) review
Lonely Kamel "Shit City" (Napalm Records, 2014) The year 2014 saw the return of heavy-stoner adventurers Lonely Kamel with a new, refreshing full length, aptly titled “Shit City”,...
13th Floor Elevators – ‘Live Evolution Lost’ (2014)
Let's talk about the presentation first as it's not every day that such a lavish box of colourfully presented psychedelic and mystic grooviness makes itself physically known. The...
Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, Faces . . . by Glyn Johns (2014)
Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, Faces . . . by Glyn Johns (Blue Rider Press,...
Native North America Volume 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966-85 (2014) review
Native North America Volume 1: "Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966-85" (Light in the Attic, 2014) This is a revelation. A collection of two decades of music made...
Cobracalia – Cobracalia (2014) review
Cobracalia “Cobracalia” (SlowBurn Records, 2014) Born from the ashes of Arizona’s legendary freak folk psychedelicists Black Sun Ensemble, Cobracalia (named after a track from BSE’s debut album) reunites...