Turning the Tide

Being misleadingly described as “Party Garage Pop” in some quarters leads one to anticipate them slanting towards a deliberately shoddy a...

01- Paul Collins- Feel the Noise 02. The Pen Friend Club- Sound of the Pen Friend Club 03. Mystic Braves- Desert Island 04. Miriam- No...

Top Albums and Singles 01- Peach Kelli Pop- Peach Kelli Pop II 02. The Hot Shots- Sample My Kissin' 03. The Beat- "Baby I...

01. The Explorers Club-Grand Hotel 02. Yani Martinelli-Bubble Station 03. Veronica Falls-s/t 04. Various-Pop Punk Mania Japan (KOGA) 0...

01. Dreamdate-Melody Walk 02. The Cynics-Spinning Wheel Motel 03. The Higher State-Freakout at the Gallery 04. The High Llamas-Talahomi Way ...

Surf Beat does a commendable job of providing the cultural context for the three waves of surf music. One of the strong points is the author...

From an overview perspective, Hot Off the Press is a wonderful 1974 anomaly fed from the mainstream tributaries/currents of the Lovin’ Spoo...

01. The Volebeats- s/t 02. The Surfites- The Surfites and Co. 03. The Hot Shots- Teen Street 04. The Riverdales- Tarantula 05. Jonathan Rich...

Prestage August is always the cruel(l)est month in the low desert of Arizona, when one is spurred from car AC to building AC by a nasty hu...

Like sand slipping through the fingers, this one at first can be hard to grasp, but ultimately revealing an extraordinary sound and story wh...

This new decade has seen me get lean in the direction of ‘60s R’n‘B while still embracing the folk-rock, surf, pop, garage, and psych sounds...

While the Pacific Northwest exploded as one of three major musical regions along the Pacific Coast during the 1960's, little has been ...

I saw this preview on Mike Dugo's 60sgaragebands.com site when doing my regular check of the News & Nuggets section. I have not thou...

The Aislers Set- How I Learned to Write Backwards If Last Match was their Mountain High foray into Spectorpop, this is their River Deep ...

01. Jonathan Richman - ¿ A qué venimos sino a caer? (Munster) 02. Chuck Perrin- Down2Bone (Webster's Last Word) 03. Outrageous Cherry...

While the front cover might mislead some to think this is a country album from the 90’s and the name of the album/group/concept reflects hi...