JOHN PEEL AND THE WEIRD WORLD OF DANDELION RECORDS
The legendary BBC DJ John Peel is rightly recalled for championing new, obscure and overlooked musical artists. He...
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ELLEN FOLEY: BRINGING NEW MEANING TO THE WORD ‘VERSATILE’
Ellen Foley might have the most eclectic resume in rock ‘n’ roll. She’s not just a solo artist...
HOW HOLLYWOOD HANDLED THE HIPPIES, PART II: BIKERS, BAD TRIPS, LOVE-INS
Hollywood brass had discovered bikers long before the hippies (see Brando in The Wild One, 1953) but they...
HOW HOLLYWOOD HANDLED THE HIPPIES
By the late 1960s, Hollywood had been infiltrated by psychedelia as a recreational pastime (pot, LSD, peyote were...
MOOGS, THEREMINS, AND LSD: LOTHAR & THE HAND PEOPLE’S SUBVERSIVE PSYCHEDELIA
While Hendrix, Morrison and Joplin were setting the musical tone for 1960s counterculture, Denver-based Lothar & The Hand...
ROGER C. REALE & RUE MORGUE: PUNK-POP PIONEERS BACK FROM THE DEAD
Forty years ago, punk/power-pop disciple Roger C. Reale enlisted the aid of guitar wizards G.E. Smith, Jimmy McAllister...
MOBY GRAPE: STILL SHINING IN THE SHADOWS
This hard luck band was one of the originals of the 1960s Bay Area ‘sound’. At their peak,...
A BUBBLING CAULDRON: THE ELECTRO-PSYCHEDELIC SAGA OF FIFTY FOOT HOSE
1960s Bay Area pioneers Fifty Foot Hose were too far out even for the hippies (think: Jefferson Airplane...
A RIOT OF THEIR OWN: THE FIRST GENERATION OF FEMALE ROCK BANDS
It didn’t start with the Runaways or the Go-Go’s. 60s bands like Ace of Cups, She, The Girls,...