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Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Skip Spence: Skip Spence: The Next Big That Never Was

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Angel, L.A. Weekly, 25 March 1994

IT'S EARLY December, 1966, at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom. The Summer of Love is a good seven months off, the Avalon scene still small and ...

Saint Etienne: Cats Eyes and Legless

Interview by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 30 April 1994

You know Saint Etienne as the flop band living within the pages of Kay's Catalogue and fronted by Emma Peel's understudy. But their pals reckon ...

Tim Hardin: Poet Of The Interior

Retrospective by Colin Escott, Goldmine, 24 June 1994

THERE'S BEEN a miniature Tim Hardin revival lately. Rod Stewart did 'Reason To Believe' on his Unplugged set, Robert Plant did 'If I Were A ...

Richie Havens: The Eternal Flame of Woodstock

Retrospective and Interview by Paul Gabriel, DISCoveries, August 1994

THE YEAR 1969, in rock music, was the culmination of the era of the huge outdoor concert festival. ...

The Lemonheads: I Get The Feeling I'm Being Bullshitted

Interview by Max Bell, Vox, August 1994

IT'S A SHAME about Evan. Maybe we have a case of wrong time, wrong place, but dark moods are written all over his scowling, handsome, ...

Steely Dan: The Return Of Steely Dan

Profile and Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, October 1995

ONCE UPON A TIME, they were the odd couple in rock. They wrote songs that featured knuckle-knotting chords and brain-twisting lyrics. They welded jazz and ...

Silver Apples

Interview by Phil McMullen, Ptolemaic Terrascope, 1996

"You are about to have probably the most unusual musical experience of your life. The music will enter areas of your mind never before opened ...

Blood Sweat & Tears, Steppenwolf, John Kay, Lovin' Spoonful, The, Zal Yanovsky, Denny Doherty, Mamas and The Papas, The, Domenic Troiano: Blasts from the Past: Five veteran Canadian rockers recall their glory days

Report and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's, 11 March 1996

CANADIAN MUSIC passes a milestone this year as the Juno Awards turn 25. To celebrate the occasion, this year's event (CBC TV, Sunday, March 10) ...

John Kay, Steppenwolf: The Long Road Of John Kay and Steppenwolf

Retrospective and Interview by Steve Roeser, Goldmine, 29 August 1997

IT IS GETTING tougher and tougher to recall, much less try and relive, those days of the late 1960s when FM radio was new and ...

Silver Apples: Oscillate Wildly

Retrospective and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 1997

After 30 years of universal neglect, New York's Silver Apples are finally getting recognition for their pioneering electronic rock. ...

Crosby Stills and Nash: The Birth of Crosby, Stills and Nash

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, June 1998

DISILLUSIONED WITH their respective bands, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash met in early 1968. Egged on by Mama Cass and plenty of marijuana, ...

Jonathan Richman: There's Something about Jonathan

Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, The Independent, 25 September 1998

Jonathan Richman introduced us to the abominable snowman in the supermarket. Now, like wow, he's a film star. ...

Cast: Magic Hour (Polydor) ***

Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 15 May 1999

CAST, BLESS them, have always been pissing in the wind. Why does it seem to go Pete Tong for our Eighties heroes? Well, here's one ...

Beatles, The, Grateful Dead, Yoko Ono, Steppenwolf, Frank Zappa, Jefferson Airplane, Can: Undercurrents #7: Fables of the Deconstruction

Retrospective by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, July 1999

In the latest in our series uncovering the hidden wiring of 20th century music, Edwin Pouncey shows how rock 'n' roll's face was changed forever ...

Little Feat: The Little Feat Saga

Sleevenotes by Bud Scoppa, Rhino Records, February 2000

This is the story of a great American band, a band as quintessentially SoCal as the Beach Boys, as rootsy as the Band, as funky ...

Fred Neil: I Don't Hear a Word They're Saying...

Retrospective and Interview by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, February 2000

He gave Dylan his start, wrote a song you know by heart, and was rated by many performers as the very best there ever was. ...

B.J. Thomas: B. J. Thomas

Book Excerpt by Dave Laing, Phil Hardy, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001

b. Billy Joe Thomas, 27 August 1942, Houston, Texas, USA ...

Youngbloods, The: The Youngbloods

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001

Jesse Colin Young, b. Perry Miller, 11 November 1944, New York, USA; Jerry Corbitt, b. Tifton, Goergia; Joe Bauer, b. 26 September 1941, Memphis, Tennessee; ...

Judy Henske: An Interview

Interview by Richie Unterberger, unpublished, 27 March 2001

ONE OF THE most eclectic early-1960s folk singers, Judy Henske started to use band backup and even drums on some of the recordings in 1963 on ...

Various Artists: The Folk Years – Blowin' in the Wind

Sleevenotes by Barney Hoskyns, Time-Life Music, 2002

THERE WAS A TIME when the notion of the "folk singer-songwriter" was all but a contradiction in terms. "Folk" music was the ür-sound of the ...