Dave Bixby on ‘Ode to Quetzalcoatl’, the Void, the Group and the Long Road Back
Dave Bixby's 'Ode to Quetzalcoatl' has spent most of its life outside the history of American popular music. Recorded in a Grand Rapids living room in 1969, with...
Junior Pro Announces New Album ‘Cool’ and Shares ‘SPORTS!’
Nashville songwriter and producer Junior Pro, the solo project of Kyle Ryan, has announced a new album, ‘Cool’, due out September 18 through Easy Does It Records. The...
Dan Gootner: “All of the Things You Love Will Eventually Meld Into Your Own Sound”
The Dan Gootner Band is a project led by South Florida composer, producer, guitarist, and lyricist Dan Gootner. With over 20 years of music under his belt, Gootner...
‘Corn Planet’: Orange Doors Build a World of Wonky, Orchestral Rock
Orange Doors has an orchestral yet crunchy sound. Full of grungy-anthemic guitar solos, quaint hand percussion, a wall of sound a-la-high-step-brass, listeners never know which flavor of genre...
‘Let the Sunshine In’: The 5th Dimension’s Soul City and Bell Years
Between 1967 and 1974 vocalists Billy Davis Jr., Lamont McLemore, Ron Townson, Marilyn McCoo and Florence LaRue, known collectively as The 5th Dimension, released nine studio LPs and...
‘So High I’ve Been’: When European Rock Moved Beyond Psychedelia
The period from 1967 to 1973 saw rock music moving from psychedelic to progressive and related genres. Cherry Red Records’ David Wells has compiled a three disc box...
Nazareth’s 1976 to 1979 Years Collected on ‘Born Under the Wrong Sign’
Following up on the April 1975 release of their international breakthrough album ‘Hair Of The Dog’ and its massive hit single “Love Hurts” Scottish rock band Nazareth issued...
The Fox: The Story of ‘For Fox Sake’, the 1970 Brighton Psych-Pop Album Newly Reissued with Unreleased Demos
Stephen Brayne can still remember standing outside a Brighton milk bar as a boy, too young to go in, listening to the rock and roll records coming from...
Medusa: Rare and Unreleased Recordings from the Mexican Underground, 1973–1997
Medusa began in Mexico City in 1972, during one of the most difficult periods in the country’s modern history. The student movement of 1968 and the Halconazo massacre...
You Can’t Franchise Devotion: Inside Japan’s Jazz Kissa
Jazz kissa are often presented outside Japan as mysterious places governed by strict habits and an almost religious attitude towards sound. That image is not entirely false, but...