The legendary BBC DJ John Peel is rightly recalled for championing new, obscure and overlooked musical artists. He is less well known for his quixotic atte...
Ellen Foley might have the most eclectic resume in rock ‘n’ roll. She’s not just a solo artist with a commanding voice and a tough new album (Fighting Words), ...
Hollywood brass had discovered bikers long before the hippies (see Brando in The Wild One, 1953) but they really got their motors runnin’ once everyone started ...
By the late 1960s, Hollywood had been infiltrated by psychedelia as a recreational pastime (pot, LSD, peyote were already in wide use among the film set by the ...
While Hendrix, Morrison and Joplin were setting the musical tone for 1960s counterculture, Denver-based Lothar & The Hand People were following the lead of ...
Forty years ago, punk/power-pop disciple Roger C. Reale enlisted the aid of guitar wizards G.E. Smith, Jimmy McAllister and Mick Ronson and drummer Hilly Michae...
This hard luck band was one of the originals of the 1960s Bay Area ‘sound’. At their peak, they were also one of the finest bands on the planet, in concert and ...
1960s Bay Area pioneers Fifty Foot Hose were too far out even for the hippies (think: Jefferson Airplane meets Stockhausen), opening shows with "Do The Dog" and...
It didn’t start with the Runaways or the Go-Go’s. 60s bands like Ace of Cups, She, The Girls, Goldie & The Gingerbreads, The Untouchable, The Pleasure Seeke...
In his day job as a music journalist, Jim Allen has contributed to Billboard, NPR, MOJO, RollingStone.com, Bandcamp Daily, Reverb.com, and many others. In his night job as a musician, he fronts country band The Ramblin' Kind and rock band Lazy Lions and works as a solo singer/songwriter.
