Released: 1964 There’s something quite different between the American producer-svengali and his British counterpart: compare and contrast for instance the … More
Tag: Blues
100 Best songs of the 60’s #70 Canned Heat – On The Road Again
Released: 1968 According to such luminaries as John Fahey and Pete Townshend, no other band than Canned Heat has done … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 60′ #86 John Lee Hooker – Boom Boom
Released: 1963 John Lee Hooker knew his way around a catch phrase, and according to music writer and his biographer … More
Deap Vally – Sistrionix 2.0 review
They say you should never go back, but sometimes you just have to. When Deap Vally – Julie Edwards (drums) … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #94 The Nashville Teens – Tobacco Road
Released: 1964 Some debates in music have been going on for much longer than you think. Interviewed by the Record … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #95 Lightnin’ Hopkins – Mojo Hand
Released: 1962 The early history of the blues has many familiar characteristcs for ecclesiastical scholars to old religious texts: there … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #16 The White Stripes – Fell In Love With a Girl
Released: 2002 Was the mythos really important? Were they brother and sister? Why did a man who grew up in … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #30 The Hives – Hate to Say I Told You So
Released: 2000 It was time for mouth-to-mouth, it was time for CPR, it was time for the defibrillator. By the … More
The Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons review
The Hives are the ultimate throwback band, recalling a showmanship and hubris which died in rock towards the end of … More
Night Beats – Outlaw R&B review
The backstory to Outlaw R&B reads like a passage from some dystopian novel: an recent emigre to Los Angeles from … More
The Voice Of Unreason 