If you’re looking for yet another great and obscure gem to add to your collection, let me suggest you this self-entitled 1977 offering from this Norwegian band Akasha. This is the epitome of underground. The production was rather home made, the album was actually recorded in a bomb cellar in a hotel in their home […] Continue reading →

Just when you think you know what Can was up to, they give us Future Days. This was the final album to feature Damo Suzuki, before becoming a Jehovah’s Witness and getting married. This is a much more mellow and low-key offering than what they gave us before. Damo Suzuki’s singing is, unsurprisingly more low […] Continue reading →

When you talk about the Bay Area scene, the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane are obviously the most talked about bands. Here’s another Bay Area band worth trying, It’s a Beautiful Day. They were a bit of a latecomer in the psychedelic scene, as their debut album was released in 1969, an era where the […] Continue reading →

Brainticket often gets classified as Krautrock, and while their music is squarely in that genre, their national origin is a bit obscure. Band leader Joël Vandroogenbroeck was apparently Belgian born, and residing in Switzerland. They included Swiss, Italian, and even American musicians in their lineup. But they did record for a short time for a […] Continue reading →

For those who grew up in the 1960s, or even those that didn’t but lived where there was a decent rock station that played plenty of music from that era (that is, not an oldies station), you probably have heard “I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night”. That band was from a Los Angeles-based […] Continue reading →

Fairport Convention is one of the biggest names of British folk rock to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Without them, you wouldn’t have Steeleye Span, and Richard Thompson wouldn’t embark on his own solo career and the same thing for Sandy Denny. You see, Richard Thompson was a Fairport member, so was […] Continue reading →

Writing On The Wall, a thunderous Scottish powerhouse released their debut Power Of The Picts in 1969 on Middle Earth Records. This rough and ready group all former members of The Jury consisted of gravel vox Linnie Paterson, lead axe Willy Finlayson, bassist Jake Scott, drummer Jimmy Hush and the core of the warriors, hammond […] Continue reading →

Truly The Wizards From Kansas are America’s finest horseman to gallop the spirited clouds of the Cherokee.The Wizards started their journey as Pig Newton launching their 1968 debut album Still In Kansas that pushed out a wah wah sapped version of Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower” and the speckled “Exchange Of Clouds”. Wizards From Kansas […] Continue reading →

Our story starts one evening in 1965 in the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago where crowds had gathered to see the battle of the bands.The finalists were the New Colony Six and a group from England called the Robin Hoods. Fred Glickstein approached the Robin Hoods and asked them where they got their name from and they […] Continue reading →

Paisley Pop was immortalised by the words ‘Bamboo Butterflies twice their normal size, flying around in my mind’. (“Purple Shades” by Trogg Reg Presley) England would leave the Mersey beat and embrace the unknown zones of creativity thanks to Ravi Shankar’s introduction of Indian sitar into the western world of sub-culture. Most notably George Harrison […] Continue reading →