Recently released is an above-ordinary four CD compilation from Cherry Red, looking at underground and progressive sounds of 1972. In that pre-Punk era B.G. (Before Google, Before Grossly...
The albums of hard-gigging English groups (Stray, Medicine Head, Edgar Broughton, Groundhogs, Strife etc.) were consistently good value. A well-kept secret back then was that their (often non-LP)...
Two hundred years ago (i.e. B.G., Before Google), he’d have been a contributor to The Republican, a paid-up member of the Dissenters perhaps, a participator in the Peterloo...
Just out is a new album by Medicine Head, highly praised by such as John Peel, Pete Townshend, John and Yoko around 1970 and in this century by...
The year 1971 is celebrated in a lush anniversary four CD box set from Esoteric Records via Cherry Red. That time saw vinyl albums emerging as serious market...
When we look back into modern music’s history, it’s made more difficult (not just clouded) unfortunately because of some fad called the internet, a tool which assumes it...
An east coast band in a different country nicknamed the British Grateful Dead due to extended jams? A co-founder who was a close cousin in regal line to...
A group of name-banders recording three well-reviewed albums on major labels in barely 18 months, by most criteria should have laid solid foundations for a glittering career. Their...
When is a one-hit wonder not a one-hit wonder? When successive singles rack up 29 weeks in the top 10 and 72 in the top 40, except in...
Just released on Cherry Red’s subsidiary Grapefruit is a triple CD wallet of an influential music scene that bridged at least two important periods of modern music: early...