garage Archive
20 Oct 2015
DVD Review: Escala Musical TV 1966-67
I took three years of Spanish in high school – seemingly a thousand years ago, more like thirty – and to this day I can correctly pronounce the items on […]
27 Aug 2015
The Chocolate Watchband: Give the People What They Want (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… Chocolate Watchband guitarist Tim Abbott believes that these new versions of the band’s old songs are an “opportunity for us to rewrite history, to make it […]
26 Aug 2015
The Chocolate Watchband: Give the People What They Want (Part 1)
Among aficionados of 1960s garage and psychedelic music, The Chocolate Watchband is dearly loved. Though the band’s history is – even by the standards of that era – a mightily […]
17 Aug 2015
Album Mini-review: Wizzz! French Psychedelic 1966-1969 Volume 1
File Next to: Nuggets II: British Empire and Beyond, Roman Coppola’s CQ Soundtrack France has long been notorious for its musical insularity. Listen to a bootleg of the Beatles‘ February […]
03 Aug 2015
Six Years of Musoscribe: The British Invasion
In February 1964, The Beatles landed in America. And everything changed. In the wake of the Beatles’ Stateside success – from the launchpad of The Ed Sullivan Show – the […]
14 Jul 2015
Some Long-lost Artist Biographies
Way back in the depths of the Great Recession (2007-2009), one of my former writers (from my time as Editor in Chief of a now-defunct magazine I won’t dignify by […]
10 Jul 2015
Album Review: The Standells — Live on Tour 1966!
The Standells – considered a quintessential protopunk band of the 1960s – got their start as a matching-suited, club band playing frat-rock and covers of the day. The pride of […]
09 Jul 2015
Album Review: The Shadows of Knight — Live 1966
In their heyday – a period that began in 1966 and ended, well, in 1966 – Chicago’s Shadows of Knight embodied what we now look back upon as the garage […]
29 Dec 2014
Best of 2014: New Music, Part 1
In my blog posts of last week, I surveyed some of my 2014 favorites: music-related books; DVDs; concerts; and interviews. For these last few days of the year, I’ll wrap […]
24 Dec 2014
Best of 2014: Concerts
One of the many pleasures associated with living in the small mountain city of Asheville NC is access to great live music. I grew up in the 70s and 80s […]