The post-'Revolver,' Beatles-influenced prog-to-psych-rock of Trilogy is a bit different than most obscure 45-rpm singles that are primarily released on local independent labels, a producer’s vanity presses, or...
In the long ago, pre-Internet years of this writer’s youth, the old brick-and-mortar record store was an oasis: an escape from parents, school, and work. Solace was found...
“Detroit Rock City” should have been the name of a Seventies-era pinball machine produced at the height of the world’s obsession with video arcades. Why? Well, because the...
Collectors of private press albums and singles released during the progressive rock ’70s—records now discovered via unauthorized digital represses, most infamously by the defunct Radioactive Records shingle—mistakenly interchange...
When a U.S. progressive music fan reminisces of Atlanta, Georgia’s WPLO-FM, they affectionately recall ex-WQXI newscaster Ed Shane who became the first program director for WPLO’s newly format-flipped,...
Rick Stevers began his musical odyssey in the 4th grade playing drums with his Grade School’s band. Next were his Middle School’s band and his High School’s Marching...
There was a time when Detroit, Michigan’s Earl Theodore Pearson was one of the Motor City’s—if not the world’s—greatest rock ‘n’ roll mysteries. Known alternately as Ted Pearson...