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The Fugs: Fug Life

Retrospective by Kris Needs, Record Collector, July 2008

EARLY 1965: The Charlatans were about to galvanise California's acid rock revolution at the Red Dog Saloon, Jimi Hendrix was still playing R&B standards on ...

Frost, The: Lost Tuneage: The Frost

Retrospective by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 14 January 2009

Who Dat? ...

Albert Ayler

Retrospective by Kris Needs, Rock's Backpages, May 2009

'I must play music that is beyond this world' – Albert Ayler ...

Runaways, The: The Runaways: Neon Angels

Retrospective by Don Waller, Detroit Metro Times, 7 April 2010

ON AUGUST 12th, 1975, the Runaways played their first gig — at Back Door Man fanzine founder Phast Phreddie Patterson's parents' house in north Torrance, ...

Kim Fowley, Runaways, The: The Runaways: Teenage Rampage!

Retrospective by Kris Needs, Record Collector, August 2010

WITH THE RUNAWAYS the subject of a Hollywood movie, Kris Needs charts the turbulent story behind the trailblazing female rock'n'roll band. ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Steve Miller, Moby Grape, Santana: Frisco, Where Art Thou: Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the '60s Psychedelic Capital

Retrospective by Gene Sculatti, Rock's Backpages, September 2010

LAST SATURDAY, paging through an article on Robert Plant in the September issue of MOJO, I learned that, upon their initial meeting in a Dublin ...

Captain Beefheart: The Cap'n & His Magic Mutant Boogie Band

Retrospective by Don Snowden, Rock's Backpages, 21 December 2010

FUNNY, I HAD IT in mind to write something on Captain Beefheart for a few months, probably because I happened to be listening to his ...

Death: Unsung Heroes: Death

Retrospective by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, February 2011

Resurrected! A remarkable, uncompromising proto-punk band from Detroit! ...

Lennon, Lenin, The Oz Schoolkids Issue And Me

Retrospective by Charles Shaar Murray, The Word, April 2011

In 1970 Charles Shaar Murray answered an ad in furry freak magazine Oz for a bunch of juveniles to edit a Schoolkids issue. Next thing ...

Charlie Pickett: My Friend Charlie: Real Life, Raw Rock & the Impossible Gulf In Between

Retrospective by Holly Gleason, hollygleason.com, 14 February 2014

MY FRIEND CHARLIE used to be a rock star, only I didn't know him then. Maybe I interviewed him once, at WVUM — "the Voice of ...

Eagles, The: Eagles: The Heroes Or Villains Of '70s Rock?

Retrospective by Bill Holdship, Classic Rock, 6 October 2015

The band who took country-rock to the masses ...

Eagles, The: Eagles: The Heroes Or Villains Of 70s Rock?

Retrospective by Bill Holdship, Classic Rock, 6 October 2015

The band who took country-rock to the masses ...

Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd: Overdrive! Syd Barrett Part 2

Retrospective by Kris Needs, Shindig, November 2016

LAST MONTH WE looked at Syd's childhood and the birth of Pink Floyd up to releasing 'Arnold Layne'. ...

Doors, The: Elektra: When Worlds Collide

Retrospective by Larry Jaffee, Record Collector News, February 2020

Former Manhattan home of Elektra Records faces demolition. The Doors' heyday coincided with label being at 1855 Broadway ...

Malcolm McLaren: Jewish manager as professional troublemaker

Retrospective by Gary Lucas, Please Kill Me!, 13 October 2020

A new doorstopper-sized (900+ pages) biography of Malcolm McLaren by Paul Gorman got musician Gary Lucas thinking about one part of the former Sex Pistol/Bow ...