Garage Bands
Leaves, The: The Leaves: These Leaves Aren't Falling
Interview by Ann Moses, Rhythm 'n' News, September 1965
NONCHALANCE is the only word that can accurately sum up the new group, the Leaves. ...
Shadows Of Knight, The: Shadows Of Knight Win 'Gloria' Race
Profile and Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, May 1966
THEY HAVE shut down Them with their recording of 'Gloria'. They're the first rock group to come out of Chicago and really make a sizable ...
Beatles, The, Remains, The: The Remains: Beatle Tour — 'Like Playing In A Closet'
Interview by Rochelle Reed, KRLA Beat, September 1966
"PLAYING THE Beatle tour was like performing in a closet with the lights off," confessed Briggs, one of the Remains who wandered up to The ...
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels: The Soul Of Ryder
Profile and Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, December 1966
MANY TRY but few white entertainers really succeed in singing the blues as they should be sung. The blues which come from deep inside seem ...
Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, November 1971
She's got long black hairAnd a big black carI know what you're thinkin'But you won't get far!She's gonna make you itch'Cause she's a witch! ...
Trashmen, The: Carrying That Weight With The Trashmen
Retrospective by Metal Mike Saunders, unpublished, 1972
2003 intro: This was an unpublished piece, wherein I strung together actual Dave Marsh phrases from his Bob Dylan polemics (in CREEM) under the name ...
Various Artists: Nuggets (Elektra)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Creem, November 1972
I LEARNED ABOUT golden oldie collections the hard way. I was all of eleven, and had finally managed to figure out what that noise coming ...
Overview by uncredited writer, Shakin' Street Gazette, November 1974
THIS IS YOUR BIG CHANCE! Yes, it’s all coming back. Following the rock & roll revival, the surf music revival, and the reggae revival, the ...
Sonics, The: Have Love, Will Travel: In Praise of the Sonics
Retrospective by Metal Mike Saunders, Gulcher, July 1975
IT ALL STARTS with Richard Berry. He never received a Nobel Prize for writing 'Louie Louie', but to this day it beats me why – ...
Overview by Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, December 1975
THE TERM PUNK is bandied about an awful lot these days. It seems to describe almost any rock performer who camps it up to any ...
Interview by Howie Klein, KSAN San Francisco, April 1978
The deeply batty Mr Erickson terrorizes KSAN's presenters, shouts at listener's phoning in, and breaks into "song".
File format: mp3; file size: 41.1mb, interview length: 44' 48" sound quality: ****
Seeds, The: The Seeds: Merlin's Music Box
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, April 1978
In which Sounds scribes bring long ignored or deleted albums to your attention. No star rating necessary – naturally, they're all Very Important Platters ...
Stooges, The: The Stooges: No Fun (Elektra)
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, August 1980
POINTLESS, PERHAPS so late as to be irrelevant, maybe. An opportunity missed, certainly. No Fun is all these things, I guess, but it does provide ...
Velvet Underground: Everything You've Ever Heard About… (VU Records)
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, December 1982
THE LEGEND rolls on and on, the more it grows the more it encourages. In the context of the semi-legal this was the one we'd ...
Report and Interview by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, April 1983
ONE DAY soon the borough fathers of Brixton will unveil a plaque outside the Garage, Friday night fixture at The Frontline Theatre. A dignified crowd, ...
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, November 1983
WE'VE HEARD THIS before, and the Fleshtones know it: "Your scene isn't really so strange/Some things never really change." Hornet-nest guitar. Gnarly vocals. Lyrics that ...
Fleshtones, The: The Fleshtones Let the '60s All Hang Out
Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, August 1984
CAN THE FLESHTONES prosper in today's slick, sophisticated pop world of Michael Jackson and Boy George? Percentage players would probably bet against the irreverent New ...
Fuzztones, The: Fuzztones: Lysergic Emanations
Review by Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, April 1985
HEY HEY hey everybody. You were stunned by their debut 45 and transfixed by the live mini album. Here, with the advent of the group's ...
Seeds, The: Where Are They Now: Sky Saxon
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, September 1985
The leader of the Seeds was 'Pushin' Too Hard' in the Sixties; now he'd into 'flower heaven power'. ...
Sonics, The: The Sonics: Here Are The Sonics
Review by Gavin Martin, NME, July 1986
MUDDY WATERS, he said, "I'm smokin' TNT, I'm drinkin' dynamite/I hope some schoolboy will start a fight." Maybe Washington's The Sonics were the answer to ...
13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson: His Own Private Realm: Roky Erickson
Interview by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, June 1995
Come with us now to the home of erstwhile 13th Floor Elevator Roky Erickson: a little shack on the outskirts of reality. And marvel how, ...
? and the Mysterians: Phone Home: ? and the Mysterians
Interview by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, February 1997
"WHOA! IT'S WILD that you called today. Little Frank, the original organist in The Mysterians, has just rejoined the band. He was down in Texas ...
The Outsiders: Wally Tax of the Outsiders: An Interview
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Ugly Things, 1998
OF ALL THE GREAT BANDS who sang in English as a second language in the 1960s, the Outsiders were the coolest. It's a subjective judgment, ...
Essay by Greg Shaw, Nuggets II (Rhino Records), 2001
GROWING UP in America in the '60s, I was surrounded by garage bands, and although I never realized how many more there were across the ...
Red Krayola: The Other Sixties Garage Gods: Red Krayola
Retrospective by Bill Bentley, Austin Chronicle, December 2002
GARAGE ROCK is a hard elephant to describe, in the light or in the dark. In some ways, almost everything qualifies. In others, nothing quite ...
Hives, The: Stronger Than Dirt: The Secret History Of Garage Punk
Overview by Joss Hutton, Sonic Reducer, 2003
Joss Hutton recalls nearly 40-years of ramalama greatness, from 'Louie Louie' to 'Main Offender' ...
Interview by Richard North, Rock's Backpages Audio, November 2003
The East Kent artict/musician talks at length about being an outsider, his political and philosophical views, and Tracey Emin's "shitty old disco tent from Millets".
File format: mp3; file size: 45.1mb, interview length: 1h 43' 03" sound quality: **
Jet: Drunks from Down Under take over the garage: Jet's Get Born
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Village Voice, April 2004
WELL! MY MY MY. Let's take a head count of the biggest names in the way overhyped "garage band" revival: the Hives, the Strokes, the ...
Seeds, The: Sky Saxon & The Seeds: The Cluny, Newcastle
Live Review by Rahul Shrivastava, bbc.co.uk, October 2005
IF YOU'VE EVER seen the early Jack Nicholson film Psych Out (1968), you'll remember the acid trip scene in the graveyard, where a funeral procession ...
Ettes, The: The Ettes: Joli Rouge, Asheville
Live Review by Fred Mills, Harp, January 2007
L.A.-BASED three-piece the Ettes surfaced last year with their official full-length debut Shake the Dust, issued by the ever-reliably maverick label Sympathy For the Record ...
Seeds, The: Sky Saxon 1937-2009: A Belated Tribute to an Acid-Punk Icon
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, June 2009
Lost in the the shock and hysteria of Michael Jackson's death was the scant reportage of another pop passing: that of crazed LA garage-pop ...
Seeds, The: Real Gone: Sky Saxon
Obituary by Kirk Silsbee, MOJO, September 2009
SKY SAXON, the colorful lead singer and sometime bassist of the Seeds, one of the great Sunset Strip bands of the 1960s, died June 25 ...
Various Artists: Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 (Rhino)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, October 2009
LENNY KAYE CAN'T have had any idea what he was starting when he compiled his original Nuggets double album of psychedelic "artyfacts" back in 1972. ...
Memoir by Mark Shipper, Rock's Backpages, April 2012
WELL, I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE. Deep in the back of my head I have this Karmic debt I owe to Greg Shaw for setting ...
Seeds, The: 22420 Pacific Coast Highway: Tales of Tim Hudson, Sky Saxon… and Ian Botham
Memoir by Mick Middles, Rock's Backpages, July 2012
STICK-THIN, clad in purple and black. Leather trousers, knee-length boots. Boney, bug-eyed, skank hair, dead face, white cheeks. This strange man was telling me to ...
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