compilation Archive
06 Nov 2013
Album Review: The Paley Brothers — The Complete Recordings
File these guys under Music You Probably Missed. Chalk it up to record execs not knowing exactly what to do with The Paley Brothers, or perhaps assign some of the […]
29 Oct 2013
Album Review: Humble Pie — Rockin’ the Fillmore: The Complete Recordings
Ruminating on chronicles of excess, I recall that it was just about two years ago that Rhino Handmade released The Grateful Dead‘s Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings. Some 22 complete […]
24 Oct 2013
Album Review: Various — In Fuzz We Trust
The premise alone is enough to set your head a-spinning. First, start with a bunch of sixties garage bands, the kind immortalized on the legendary Lenny Kaye-curated Nuggets album. Now […]
08 Oct 2013
Album Review: Various Artists — CBGB: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
When endeavoring to judge the merits of a soundtrack album, there’s always the quandary of what measure to use. Should one judge it on the merits, strictly as a thematic […]
07 Oct 2013
Album Review: Sly and the Family Stone — Higher!
The work of Sly Stone has long called for a collection like this one. A set bringing together 77 tracks across four discs, it includes not only the obvious hits […]
03 Sep 2013
Fuzzy Memories: A Conversation with The Fuzztones’ Rudi Protrudi, Part One
Since 1980, The Fuzztones have been leaders in keeping the garage rock flame alive. Originally based in New York City, the group – led by singer-guitarist Rudi Protrudi – eventually […]
22 Jul 2013
Album Review: The Three O’Clock – The Hidden World Revealed
The whole so-called “paisley underground” scene happened during my college years. Like many of my generation, I had expanded my listening experiences beyond classic rock into what would eventually be […]
19 Jul 2013
Album Review: The Swimming Pool Q’s – The A&M Years
The music scene likes its labels, it it has always been thus. It’s the rare band that defies easy categorization and still enjoys some measure of commercial success; one has […]
16 Jul 2013
Album Review: Various Artists — The South Side of Soul Street
Not meant to diminish in any way the staggering contribution Stax made to popular music, but that Memphis label was not the be-all and end-all for quality Southern soul music […]
11 Jul 2013
Album Review: Various Artists — Los Nuggetz: ’60s Garage & Psych from Latin America
During the first four or five years of this new century, there existed online a thriving collector/trading community, dedicated to sharing and disseminating obscure, forgotten and occasionally never-known-about-in-the-first place music […]