rock was put into motion by the brothers Luis and Santiago Auserón at the end of the seventies. Sierra came over from Kaka de Luxe (Deluxe Poop), a seminal group of the Madrid Scene which also featured Carlos Berlanga, Fernando Márquez, El Zurdo, and Olvido Gara (also known as Alaska...
Then, a few months later, I came across an American podcast calledIsrael Hour Radio: one hour a week filled with Israeli music, both the classics and the modern stuff. I started listening to the archives, with theme episodes on classic songs of the seventies and eighties, and Eurovision hit...
* Dah Acme Stomperz and Jaws of the Flying Carpet. Both these bands were experimental music groups in the seventies and eighties heavily influenced by Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa. They performed both original and cover material. * The Blue Angels ...
When I first heard this magnificent Columbian salsa LP, I took it as advertised – a collaboration between two groups. One must be a duo of talented siblings (Meridian Brothers), the other a collective looking to bring back the glory days of the Bogota scene (El Grupo Renacimiento, or “...
The reality is that the rock music of the past, spanning the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties, has been thoroughly explored and reinterpreted countless times. Aspiring rock musicians face a challenging decision regarding the musical direction they should pursue. They must either adhere to ...
The Moving Target This is a critical time for Bryan Ferry. The architect of one of the most influential rock bands of the Seventies has lately become the target of nearly every disaffected critic with venom in his biro. He was always, perhaps, one of the most vulnerable of the rock elite...
Sha Na Na began performing in 1969 at the height of the hippie counterculture but went on to achieve US-wide fame after opening forJimi Hendrixat Woodstock Festival. Fame that went on to inspire similar groups throughout North America, as well as Grease, American Graffiti and the television ...
…It might as well be the one excerpted here: “If you are on the Internet long enough, there comes a year when you will be forced to rank something. Now it is my time. So I am taking the liberty of going through the 100 holiday songs being foisted upon us everywhere and ranking ...
In addition to reviews of LP’s and discographies, numerous reports and interviews were published, wherein the history of German music and background information of the pertinent Krautrock groups were described. Between 1971 and 1974, Patterson contributed significantly, as a Radio-DJ in central Cal...
Two tough years of gigging followed, mostly in the USA, and after Beck quit to form the first of a line of Jeff Beck Groups, Page carried on the torch. His fellow band members wanted to go in a different musical direction, but ceded Page the group name, so in the Summer of 1968 he...