Turning the Tide

You gotta love debut releases like this 2017 one from Get Hip, one of my long-time favorite record labels. This trio, from Asturias in N...

It has been 25 years since the legendary Flamin’ Groovies released their last studio album Rock Juice .  While the band resumed actively ...

One night in fall 1993 I turned on WVFI-640 AM (then “broadcasting” through a carrier current system to the residence halls at Notre Dame...

His jazzy spaced-out bagpipes rendition of the groundbreaking "Eight Miles High" by the Byrds was my first encounter with the m...

Where did this come from?  While Dion's once long lost folk-rock recordings, as heard on Kickin Child: Lost Columbia Album 1965,  a...

Isasa plays and composes in the American Primitive tradition or what could be flipped as Primitivista España as the musician is based in...

While his foray into African sounds and instruments on 1958’s Mganga! is justifiably his most recognized work as it bears all the elemen...

Rising out from the unpredictable crosscurrents of the old pueblo of Tucson and bordertown of Nogales, the Flight 13 are ready to begin ...

Having their own sound could be considered an understatement when describing this indie-pop band consisting of three females on the front...

From the day I heard my dad’s 45 of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance/ “Take it Like a Man” on a Fisher-Price record player when I was in...

OK, add the Muffs to cub and Blondie, divide by the Beat and then compound to the power of Buck. Ah forget the formulas because it’s sum...

Action-packed with fuzz, folk-rock, beat and R&B, “The Wigged Out Sounds” present Freddy and Co. back on the forefront of the middle-...

Don’t you just love it when none of the local record stores carry the works of a hometown musician and you have to send away for and/or c...

While these two albums will probably not be featured in Mojo anytime soon, they are very good unsung sixties soft-pop albums with that u...

Almost five years after their sparkling debut “Treats and Treasures,” it was great to hear (through the Radio Rumpus Room archives) tha...

After four years, the Resonars have emerged from their Coma Cave Studios, burrowed somewhere in the cacti-strewn mountains surrounding Tu...

Whatever became of the Swedish musical invasion which was constructed and purported to be the next big thing around 2002?  Part of the an...

For some reason, Brazilian music awash in bossa nova seems to really beckon when the daytime temperatures start to climb into triple di...

Garage Band, AZ, U.S.A. While they shared many of the same experiences, common denominators and influences of countless garage band...