Big Star – #1 Record and Radio City (2014)
As brilliant as Alex Chilton no doubt was, there’s more to Big Star.
As brilliant as Alex Chilton no doubt was, there’s more to Big Star.
Thank You Scientist more than deserves a second audition; don’t miss out this time.
George Harrison’s catalog, even more than a decade after his death, is widely underappeciated outside of the radio hits, a grievous thing.
Hand-picked solo tracks give the latest Genesis box set a new twist.
Eric Burdon and the Animals approached the blues with a fresh and original vision.
Something bigger than the music was happening with the Allman Brothers Band – certainly something bigger, I’d guess, than they could explain.
The first jazz record released by the just-beginning ESP-Disk record company, ‘Spiritual Unity’ quickly put this tiny label on the map, as well as thrust Ayler to the forefront of the free jazz movement when it was released more than a year later. Even then, this record was well ahead of the frontier of jazz and remains so today.
Armed with an impressive pop vocabulary, Phonograph should have been huge.
Often overlooked, ‘Slang’ allowed the band to explore new musical territory and stretch its wings.
No one recreated psychedelia as authentically as Plasticland did in the 1980s.