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Lovin' Spoonful, The, Blues Project, The: How the Lovin' Spoonful and the Blues Project Electrified New York City

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2016

THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL were NYC's Beatles. Lillian Roxon, in her indispensable Rock Encyclopedia, called them "our own little moptops, born, bred and raised right here ...

Bunky & Jake, Jake and the Rest of the Jewels: Everything's Jake on A Lick and a Promise

Review by Gene Sculatti, Rock's Backpages, 8 February 2012

THE SUBTITLE of a recently published book on Manhattan's Seventies punk scene is Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever. It's a sure ...

Brown Shoes Don't Make It

Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, May 1970

IT WAS, AT least for me and most of the people I know, the music that first aroused interest in things Underground, and the music ...

Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane: San Francisco Bay Rock

Guide by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, October 1966

THE SAN FRANCISCO rock scene is a complex one. It is a plentiful jumble of hard rock, folk-rock, blues-rock, bubble-gum, and adult bands that have ...

New York: Positively 4th Street

Retrospective by Lenny Kaye, The History of Rock, 1982

The music that came out of New York's melting pot ...

Television, New York Dolls: The New York Club Scene

Report by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, May 1974

THE NEW York club scene had its heyday during the mid-sixties. On Long Island, the Action House ruled over the suburban scene featuring house bands ...

Blue Oyster Cult, New York Dolls, Velvet Underground: Blue Oyster Cult, the New York Dolls: New York's Beasty, Brutal Music Explosion

Overview by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, October 1973

The N.Y. Dolls & Blue Oyster Cult Revive Manhattan ...

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 ...

The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Michael Nesmith: Big Tit Sue and Bigger Tit Sue: Torrid Tales of the Troubadour

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Hotel California', 2006

UP ON THE Sunset Strip, the live scene was hurting. Name bands were now too big to play small clubs like the Whisky: they'd be ...

Jackson Browne, Byrds, The, Doors, The, Terry Melcher, Mothers Of Invention, The, Frank Zappa, Rising Sons, The: Billy James on Columbia, Elektra and the L.A. music industry

Interview by Richie Unterberger, unpublished, 1986

Author’s note: This was based around one of the first significant historical interviews I did. The essay wasn't published anywhere, just typed out for a ...

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 ...