Exclusive premiere of the Residents’ new video, ‘Bury My Bone’
Like their masterpiece Eskimo, the story of the Residents’ new album starts with a cryptoethnomusicological discovery: in this case, the complete recorded works of an albino…
Music Archives: 06/2020
The Turtles run with the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ concept on their brilliant 1968 LP, ‘Battle of the Bands’
I’m a big fan of irreverent ‘60s pop band, the Turtles. This fabulous and underrated group doesn’t get much respect, but they had lots of…
Open Up and Bleed: WILD footage of Iggy & The Stooges performing ‘1970’ IN 1970!
There are many urban legends in rock and roll. One of them is that Stooges bassist Dave Alexander was fired after he showed up totally…
Laraaji returns: New Age musical royalty gets back to his roots with ‘Sun Piano’
Portrait of Laraaji by Daniel Oduntan Back in 2018, before he released his elaborate and ornate Rare Birds album, my pal Jonathan Wilson told me…
The Electric Prunes’ 4th LP is a rock opera that no original members play on, but it’s actually good
In the mid 1960s, the group Jim and the Lords inked a deal with producer Dave Hassinger’s production company. After a name change, the first…