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...
Dead Meadow Unearth Two Decades of Recordings on ‘Foundlings’
We are pleased to premiere ‘Foundlings,’ a new collection of rarities, covers and previously unreleased recordings from Dead Meadow. ‘Foundlings’ is not a conventional new Dead Meadow album....
Joachim Kühn: “The Best Improvisation Happens When Your Head Is Completely Empty”
Joachim Kühn has spent more than six decades pursuing musical freedom, but the freedom in his playing has always been founded on discipline. Born in Leipzig in 1944,...