It’s hard to stay in a pissed mood while listening to an album like Johnny Nobody’s Die Like Dogs. From start to finish, the record is absolutely loaded with tenacious ear candy without any filler. If you buy this record, I guarantee that you will be singing enthusiastically along with every song after only aContinue reading “Johnny Nobody – Die Like Dogs [Alternative Rock/Power Pop]”
Monthly Archives: August 2017
Festival Friday: The Glastonbury Fayre 1971
While the Glastonbury Festival is certainly not an overlooked event by any means, its origins have become somewhat obscured over the years. After the success of the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival in 1970, promoters Andrew Kerr and Michael Eavis and their team decided to hold a free festival in 1971, then called theContinue reading “Festival Friday: The Glastonbury Fayre 1971”
The Warp/The Weft- Mapping an Absence [Acid Folk/Folk Rock]
The Warp/The Weft- Mapping an Absence Sounding as haunting, rustic and feral as an abandoned cemetery swallowed by trees and weeds, The Warp/The Weft’s Mapping an Absence is an excellent example of acid folk’s ever continuing influence. Hailing from Poughkeepsie, New York, The Warp/The Weft infuse their music with the cold, isolation and haunting qualitiesContinue reading “The Warp/The Weft- Mapping an Absence [Acid Folk/Folk Rock]”
Now Playing: The Duke of Surl – The Walk [Garage Power-Pop]
Only five months after releasing a strong and exhilarating debut record, King Pizza Records’ The Duke of Surl is back with a new track just in time to perfectly soundtrack your final sweltering weeks of summer. You can just feel the late summer humidity in the song’s Sun Records-esque echo treated vocals and melancholic throbbingContinue reading “Now Playing: The Duke of Surl – The Walk [Garage Power-Pop]”
Festival Friday: The Stones in Hyde Park 1969
Stones in The Park In what is definitely the shortest festival that we’ve covered here, The Stones in The Park was a one-day free event at Hyde Park on July 5th, 1969 that featured many progressive rock groups like King Crimson, Third Ear Band and Family as well as of course, The Rolling Stones. HydeContinue reading “Festival Friday: The Stones in Hyde Park 1969”
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at Woodstock
If you’ve been following along with my Instagram stories, you would’ve seen that I have been posting clips of every performance at the Woodstock festival, which happened this week exactly 48 years ago. While on the hunt for some of the more rare and under-seen videos (still holding out for someone to have footage ofContinue reading “Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at Woodstock”
Festival Fridays: The Mar Y Sol Festival
The Mar Y Sol Festival 1972 The Mar Y Sol Festival, which took place about thirty miles outside of San Juan, Puerto Rico, seemed cursed right from the beginning. Set up to be the first rock festival to take place in Puerto Rico, five promoters attempted to start the planning stages in 1971, but productionContinue reading “Festival Fridays: The Mar Y Sol Festival”
Autger- Totenmesse [Dark Ambient/Neoclassical]
Autger – Totenmesse As black as smoke billowing from a smoldering battlefield and as haunting as an abandoned graveyard, Autger’s Totenmesse is a dark soundscape that feels right at home within your nightmares. Hailing from Russia, Autger is a one-man band that produces deeply evocative and atmospheric music that’s inspired by the bleaker corners ofContinue reading “Autger- Totenmesse [Dark Ambient/Neoclassical]”
Festival Friday: The Big Sur Folk Festivals (1964-1971)
Running on the opposite coast from Newport from 1964-1971, The Big Sur Folk Festival was a different beast entirely. Starting off as a series of workshops and impromptu sets by Joan Baez, Mimi & Richard Fariña and some of their contemporaries, The Big Sur Folk Festival was intentionally kept a small, intimate event withContinue reading “Festival Friday: The Big Sur Folk Festivals (1964-1971)”
Record Crates United 