Music Archives: 08/2019

It’s difficult to imagine a more timely soundtrack to the distinctly anti-democratic shenanigans of unelected Prime Minister Boris Johnson than “A Very British Coup” the…

As many of you reading this might already know Bow Wow Wow’s “I Want Candy” (which was never much of a hit record anywhere despite…

Rouge was a ‘70s glam band that are barely known outside of their home country of Japan. This colorful group was inspired by the likes…

Oakland, California based spacerockers Lumerians have shape-shifted their distinctive brand of pulsating cosmic psychedelia–which incorporates elements of krautrock, drone, dub and free jazz–once again. Leaving…

“That basketball was like…a basketball to me” –Basketball Jones “Basketball Jones” was a song/routine/character from Cheech & Chong’s 1973 Los Cochinos (“The Pigs”) record. The…

Peter Laughner early 1976. Photo Credit: Mik Mellen Peter Laughner was a singer-songwriter-guitarist and apparent force of nature who has been credited with jump-starting the…

On March 9th, 1977, members of the Patti Smith Group played an incredible yet little-known gig. A recent accident had sidelined Smith, and it’s likely…

What are you gonna do when you’re on the back slice of life wondering where the fuck your dreams have all gone? Are you still…

A few months back online record club Vinyl Me, Please and Drexel University’s student-run MAD Dragon Records released Laugh To Keep From Crying by the…

Marc Bolan dressed to the left. Sometime in the 1970s, an intrepid BBC reporter posited the question What is it about today’s pop stars that…