Rockasteria

The Outlaws were one of the most enduring and popular of bands to emerge from the great 'Southern Rock' boom in the USA in...

Point Blank's second album, the aptly-titled Second Season, disappeared without a trace, which meant that they needed one thin...

John Hall was best known, for most of the first four decades of his public life, as a singer and guitarist, principally with the g...

In the beginning there was “Yesterday.” Then “Eleanor Rigby” came to pass. And just about every teenager (James Osterberg, aka...

Legendary guitarist Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) is best known for his leadership of the quintessential San Franciscan collective, The Gra...

Some old recordings are rare for a reason. When I was a kid in the 70s, like lots of other boys my age, I collected beer cans. And...

This is an interesting UK early-1970s 'super group' that doesn't seem to have attracted a great deal of attention dur...

The roots of the original Motherlode can be traced back to some of Toronto's hottest club acts in the late '60s. Despite t...

What George Orwell dubbed "Newspeak" back in 1950 has become pervasive in modern day marketing. Examples are too numerou...

Newcastle band Toby Twirl was formed in 1968 and released three singles on the Decca label (these things used to matter, believe m...

At it’s inception, the bands’ name was not COKE. The original name of the group was “Instant Garage Band.” The name COKE emerged l...

Singer John LiVigni "John Valenti" formed Puzzle in Chicago, Illinois with Bobby Villalobos (guitar), Ralf Richert (guit...

Newburgh, New York psych-punks the Jelly Bean Bandits formed in 1966. Singer Billy Donald, guitarist Jack Dougherty, bassist Fred ...

Baroque psych band, hailing from Long Island NY, recorded and released only this album in 1968 at Jubilee label. Beautiful harmoni...

In some ways, Marc Ellington's Rains/Reins of Change two-fer sounds like a late-'60s Fairport Convention album that doesn...