…Their previous studio CD, Tribal Fires, was named as the runner-up in Pipeline Instrumental Review's "Album Of The Year" awards for 2012 (and their latest release, the live Sonic Cataclysm album, won the Pipeline album of the year award last year), but this disc somehow manages, through the relentless efforts of all four musicians, to top it in what's sure to be one of the top releases of 2015. Ancient Winds features 12 original songs as well as a cover of The Atlantics' "Coral Island". Several of the songs were collaborations with some of the premier guitarists and songwriters of the last 50 years, including Jim Skiathitis of The Atlantics, Danny Snyder of The TomorrowMen, Jeremy Dehart of the Aqualads and Alex Faide of Los Twang! Marvels. Original cover art was created by Lorraine Schleter and CD layout by Ferenc Dobronyi. - (Double Crown)
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Dig the WILD garage rock sounds as sixteen of the wildest combos on the planet duke it out in a no-holds-barred battle of the bands! Blood Red Battle Royal includes 16 head-stompin' hits by garage legends The Fleshtones, The Woggles, The Surf Trio, The Hentchmen, Girl Trouble, The Royal Pendletons and lots more! It's a full-on, fist-in-yer-face PARTY from start to finish!
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It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is dull, unbearable or unplayable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)
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...Their four CDs (see Pipelines 71, 75, 78 and 90) are all highly recommended for their quality of style, playing and sound, but even then they hardly prepare you for this, aptly titled, Sonic Cataclysm. My dictionary has cataclysm as a deluge, a momentous event marked by violent upheaval and destruction. Sonic Cataclysm is an explosively powerful blast of reverb guitar, lashing rhythms, pumping bass and furious drums and is surely the best live album of the modern surf age.
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It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is dull, unbearable or unplayable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)
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...A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first recordings in 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis. "Crazy Arms" sold 300,000 copies in the South, but it was his 1957 hit "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" that shot Lewis to fame worldwide. He followed this with "Great Balls of Fire", "Breathless" and "High School Confidential". However, Lewis's rock and roll career faltered in the wake of his marriage to his 13-year-old first cousin once removed when he was 23 years old.
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We have come to expect a certain level of quality from anything our friend Ivan is involved with; at this point he's had a fantastic 17 year public music career. From the first recordings with The Space Cossacks, to Tribal Fires, there hasn't been a misstep. The Madeira overcome the sophomore curse by tinkering with their focus ever so slightly as to keep the sound fresh. The jungle theme is a nice twist, emphasized by the album package, song titles and abundance of tom tattoos, but, really, the album could have been called "Warpath", or "Blitz!", and the result would have been the same. So what is the thing that keeps drawing back to this album?
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15 of the best tracks from this North Carolina garage band label. Crude as hell recordings from 1966-67.
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It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is dull, unbearable or unplayable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)
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It has been duly noted that no one in the '60s was able to imitate The Left Banke's sound with nearly the same effectiveness, and no artist has managed to do so in the ensuing decades either -- until, that is, Falkner got his hands on "Pretty Ballerina." His one-man-band version, although perhaps a bit busier than the original, has the same lonesome vulnerability, and his wisp of a vocal sounds as if you could snatch it up and put it in your pocket for that next blue day. Jigsaw Seen's "Desiree" is as brilliantly baroque as the original, but replaces its rustic luster with wonderful psychedelic flourishes. Myrah toughens "Starbelly" with a beefed-up rhythmic lope, while the Birdwatchers imagine "My Friend Today" as a Beach Boys song, transforming it into a gorgeous dream. Some of the artists completely inject their own personalities into the tunes, as with the Sun Sawed In 1/2's buoyant, '70s-ish "And Suddenly" and MiNsTeR HiLL's new wave zydeco on "Evening Gown."
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The latest from American guitar group The Madeira manages to be exciting and dynamic whilst still being as varied and polished as we have come to expect from one of the best groups around. The 13 tracks range from clean echo ballads through six-string bass twangers to soaring exotic pounders and the group’s brilliant, expressive playing is matched by inventive arrangements that wring all possible emotion out of every melody. Additionally notable is the fact that all bar two of these melodies are originals. It takes a couple of plays to familiarise yourself with the material and then the investment really pays off, giving you an album that will delight for many years to come with its scintillating lead work and oh-so-effective real rhythm guitar throughout. Patrick O’Connor’s mastery of this underestimated art is the perfect foil for Ivan Pongracic’s accomplished lead and he also shares the writing credits.
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…For the first two years of its existence, Beserkley only put out singles. The first release (in late 1973) was Earth Quake's version of the Easybeats' "Friday On My Mind". Initially none of the Beserkley singles were especially successful, but in 1975 some were assembled, together with newly recorded tracks, into the album Beserkley Chartbusters Vol. 1. As well as tracks by Earth Quake, this included tracks by power-pop group the Rubinoos, Jonathan Richman and Greg Kihn. Richman's recordings were his first as a solo performer (after the disbanding of the original Modern Lovers) and included the first released version of "Roadrunner", by Jonathan Richman backed by Earth Quake.
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It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is dull, unbearable or unplayable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)
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True West may have been part of California's psychedelic underground, but the Davis quintet definitely had a sound and style all its own. Drawing inspiration from Syd Barrett (the band's first release was a single of his "Lucifer Sam," reprised on the EP) and Roky Erickson, they played a frenetic, dense drone with crazed guitars and dramatic vocals.
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In the early 1960's, southern California was taken by storm by a new musical sound, a double-picked, lightning tremelo guitar style unheard of til then. The musician was Dick Dale, and his reverb-drenched playing (known to melt a guitar pick after one tune) fostered a host of imitators like the Chantays, Pyramids, Astronauts, Belairs as well as vocal groups like the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean. And so began the first wave of surf music. In the late 1970's and on into the 1980's, the sound was re-introduced by the likes of Jon & the Nightriders, the Wedge, the Malibooz, the Surf Raiders. The surf sound was back, and I was delighted. Then "Pulp Fiction" helped to kick start what many feel is the third wave, when it showcased Mr. Dale's "Miserlou" to many old and young fans. Surf instrumental music is alive and well, and is represented by one of the finer groups currently out there, The Madeira. Having become quite familiar with Ivan Pongracic's quitar playing while with the Space Cossacks, I was quite excited on the pre-publicity surrounding his new band and new release. From the Middle Eastern rhythm of "El Caliph" with its pounding tribal drums to the soft and mysterious "Crescent Moon", from the energy-driven "Sandstorm" to the beautiful and thirst-quenching "Oasis", this release is pure listening pleasure. Yes, surf instrumental music is alive and well, and this is one group that is doing its finest to keep it that way. (Bombora)
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Hot on the heels of their debut full-length CD comes a great new 5 song CD-EP by The Madeira. Released just in time for their 2006 West Coast tour, this disc features covers of songs by Dick Dale, The Treble Spankers, Paco de Lucia and The Surf Coasters, but done in a way that sounds 100% like The Madeira!
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…Beserkley is usually regarded as a power pop and rock and roll label. During the 1970s, the label released albums by Earth Quake, Greg Kihn, Jonathan Richman, and The Modern Lovers, the Rubinoos, and the Tyla Gang. Several other artists appeared on singles, or on compilation albums. From 1980 to its dissolution in 1984, Beserkley was a one-artist label, the artist being Greg Kihn. - wiki
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...There are liner notes, and they discuss with a fan's abandon many of the performers included here The music itself is ultimately what matters, and these 20 tracks are strictly topnotch. The masters are no big deal in terms of quality, but it seems likely that there are fewer than a couple of handfuls of the original singles on the planet, so what are you going to do? These are definitely mastered from records, not session tapes. This collection is symptomatic of a genre of music that was widely recorded -- like doo wop before it -- and barely documented. While it's true that this is for the most part a bootleg, it is perhaps the only source for music that deserves to be studied, disseminated, and -- most of all -- played for perpetuity.(Thom Jurek, Allmusic)
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It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is dull, unbearable or unplayable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)
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"...It's all the same manic riffs, the same hyper-rhythmic vocal chatter... What Log does better than his contemporaries is ingest, digest, and regurgitate familiar forms into curious new colors, like Willie Dixon on MDMA..." - Alternative Press (2/00, pp.84-5) - 4 out of 5
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It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is dull, unbearable or unplayable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)
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...The group's seventh album (on their fourth label) is bolstered by meaty yet stripped-down production from veteran Ed Stasium (Ramones, Living Colour, Smithereens) who returns after working on Heat's 1998 disc Space Heater and 1999's Holy Roller. Not surprisingly then, little has changed in the Rev's trademarked approach. Mixing Molotov-cocktail-quality portions of rockabilly, country, and Ramones-styled punk, Heat charges through his usual PC-free topics of bad wimmin' ("What's Reminding Me of You," "Ain't Gonna' Happen"), good cars ("Galaxy 500"), and nefarious band members ("You've Got a Friend in Jimbo") with sharp, muscular, often breathless playing in a heavyweight attack that will please established fans, but probably won't grab any new ones. Adding the fleet-fingered bluegrass of the instrumental "Show Pony" to his established bag of tricks, along with the reverb-laden spaghetti western Dick Dale-isms of another instrumental and the intricately suite-styled "Duel at the Two O'Clock Bell," shows how adaptable and talented Heat is as a guitarist. But the spoken word "Sermon on the Jimbo" puts religion back in the Rev's schtick as he provides a fire and brimstone sermon about his bandmate in a tacky bit that goes nowhere. The soliloquy probably makes for a show-stopping moment live, but is a distraction -- and not a particularly well conceived one -- on album, as it sets up the closing hillbilly romp "You've Got a Friend in Jimbo." Although it peters out in its last 10 minutes, Lucky 7 is a workmanlike and thrilling if unadventurous addition to Heat's fiery catalog, and provides him with more fuel for his explosive gigs. - AllMusic Review by Hal Horowitz
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Leave it to Greg and Suzy Shaw at Voxx to compile the best Garage compilation ever! This collection is both a fabulous introduction to the genre and a must have for enthusiasts alike. As many of these tracks are heard for the first time on CD, this is a welcome addition to my collection! Cavestomp NOW, I say!! - By cjpopgirl (New York City)
...There are liner notes, and they discuss with a fan's abandon many of the performers included here The music itself is ultimately what matters, and these 20 tracks are strictly topnotch. The masters are no big deal in terms of quality, but it seems likely that there are fewer than a couple of handfuls of the original singles on the planet, so what are you going to do? These are definitely mastered from records, not session tapes. This collection is symptomatic of a genre of music that was widely recorded -- like doo wop before it -- and barely documented. While it's true that this is for the most part a bootleg, it is perhaps the only source for music that deserves to be studied, disseminated, and -- most of all -- played for perpetuity.(Thom Jurek, Allmusic)
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