1994 would be a year we would never forget, and for many bands it would see the death of milestone in modern music, the unforgivable grunge era was dead. But from the ashes still burned the passion and the meaning to which many musicians are discovering once more. The Vines have most certainly taken this […] Continue reading →

Eloy was one of Germany’s top prog rock bands, but at the same time, they often received a lot of criticisms as well, especially with leader Frank Bornemann, and the fact he always sung in English. Anyway, here’s a discography of the band, and my reviews on each on them: – Eloy (1971) Debut with […] Continue reading →

Another totally obscure and forgotten gem of Italian prog rock, Pholas Dactylus released this one and only album, and then vanished. Unlike other Italian prog bands where the vocalist would sing, and there might be a few seconds of narration on occasions (like on Banco del Mutuo Soccorso’s Io Sono Nato Libero), the vocalist here […] Continue reading →

This 1970 adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror has often been unjustly maligned. No, I wouldn’t call it a masterpiece of cinema, but a pretty unintentionally silly and amusing adaptation of the Lovecraft story. Don’t expect the movie to be 100% true to the story, in fact Lovecraft stories weren’t supposed to translate too […] Continue reading →

I wasn’t alive in the 1960s, so I really couldn’t experience firsthand what kind of impact the Whole Earth Catalog had on the countercultural movement. My mother, on the other hand, was there, and she had read issues of the Whole Earth Catalog front and back. Out of pure curiosity, I went and bought the […] Continue reading →

The first thing I reviewed here was Älgarnas Trädgård’s Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, which is a truly wonderful example of what the Swedish underground psychedelic/experimental scene had gave us in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Another band worth looking in to is International Harvester. This band was the brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Bo Anders […] Continue reading →

The still brilliant examination of one man’s life in the balance, 12 Angry Men irrevocably alters one’s perceptions of the trial by jury process. With a worried gaze, the defendant (John Savoca) pensively stares at the retreating backs of his jury. On trial for pre-meditated murder, he will be sent to the chair if a […] Continue reading →

This is a great little river town. You can hear live R&B and old time rock every Wednesday and on the weekend coming from the local night clubs,and the river is a great place to spend the day hiking fishing swiming boating and horse back riding. Then spend the night partying at Lenora’s Ghost. Continue reading →

For those who have never have been to the North Country Faire in Northern Alberta, Canada it is a hard event to describe. It is a solstice celebration with short nights (dark for 4 hours) and some of the trippiest people you could ever meet. It is four days of camping, constant music, sleep deprivation, […] Continue reading →

Too often you go to the supermarket and you see the usual on the shelves: shitty trendy magazines with anorexic supermodels with every other page advertising for Toyota, Ford, Maybelline, Loréal, cereal, and useless trendy clothing. These magazines, of course, are a real sad example of the worst Corporate America has to offer. One magazine […] Continue reading →