Rockasteria

It's been pretty well established that The Byrds had long gone past their expiration date. Roger McGuinn had already peaked as...

This was the last record that Alan Wilson appeared on. It featured a slightly different Canned Heat, as Henry Vestine was absent f...

The Mind Garage story begins in Morgantown, WV with the release of the classic “Asphalt Mother” single on their own label and incl...

In 1969 Lighthouse played the Atlantic City Jazz Festival and after a technical glitch with the PA system the band had an impromp...

A couple of summers ago, when “Blind Owl” Wilson overdosed; well, it looked like curtains for Canned Heat. The band added Harvey M...

The Unicorn’s first album,  Uphill All the Way, sounds like a band simply ecstatic at the possibilities of this new brand of folk-...

Brian Auger and his band outdo themselves on this extraordinary album, which boasts playing that is both passionate and of virtuos...

The South African heavy prog act the Third Eye recorded three albums over the course of as many weekends in 1969. This second rel...

Local band The He-Too’s (the first version of the band and formerly The Aardvarks) break up and guitar player Gene Balabon and bas...

The contents of this album are meant to be a combination of music, positivism and thoughtfulness aimed at both gut and the mind.  Joyou...

Gospel Truth, Hipster Image, The Velvet Chords were all band names emblazoned across posters in the mid 60s. Hipster Image were i...

In late 1971 we moved into a house in Hollywood with our bass player Rick Carlos, and John Mauceri, drums. All we did was music an...

A great title for this one – given that the album's got a full, spacious sound – one that definitely lives up to the "su...

In the annals of freakdom there are fewer more celebrated ‘musicians’ as Hapshash and the Coloured Coat – but not at the time of r...

The album starts off well on an upbeat number: Art Reynolds's "Glory Glory." With a rolling piano, 12-string guitar,...