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07-04-17 Review: Various Artists - Lovin' Fire
Being a complete opposite to the British beat era gems from Ballroom Beat, the other one of the labels first two releases (reviewed elsewhere on these pages), as quite precisely specified by the subtitle itself, this one covers the more adventurous (which doesnt always necessarily mean better) side of the turn of the two decades, also compiled by what seems as the main psychic archivist, Nick Saloman.

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07-04-14 Review: The Exits - The Legendary Lost Exits Album
With a kind of a pop-art-ish take on the notorious Ogdens Nut Gone Flake album cover, along with the fact that The Exits are actually Geno Buckmasters and Colin Swans pre-Direct Hits band, this is a must for both contemporary modernists, as well as for those still waiting to exit the initial days of the hits.

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07-04-13 Review: The Sundowners - Captain Nemo
Being yet another perfect fit for the common shoulda-beens tag, when it comes to mid-to-end sixties artists/albums, The Sundowners Monkees-support tour, along with different kinds of significant TV/film appearances, shouldve been used just as an extra push to bring their Beatlesque melodies, West Coast cool, frantic showmanship, psychedelic production flourishes and mile-wide cheeky grin to a wider public attention, but as faith had it, and considering the fact that youre actually reading this, obviously it had never really happened.

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07-04-12 Review: Various Artists - Ballroom Beat Vol. 1
For what seems like a perfect sequel to Past & Presents NEW RUBBLE series volumes 1 (Cleanbeat) and 3 (Primal British beat ... both reviewed elsewhere on these pages), Ballroom Beat finds once again Nick Saloman (Bevis Frond) digging through the same depths of British underground, gathering another bunch of rare, and mostly overlooked by other compilers, beat tracks heard around the ballroom halls between 1963 and 1966.

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07-04-11 Review: Various Artists - La Discoteque Psychedlique
As suggested by the subtitle itself, being a kind of a trans-European overview of psychedelique dance floors in between late and early, most of the content here falls under the above mentioned funky grooves, usually with at least slightly progressive touch to it, with just an occasional detour towards the folky or pop-sike side of the matter.

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07-04-06 Review: The Wind In The Willows - The Wind In The Willows
Though not really just a pretty awful baroque folk rock and a depressing listening, as Deborah Harry described her late60s band by the time shed become Blondie, the lone Capitol album by The Wind In The Willow from 1968, doesnt get much more interesting than the actual fact of them being HER ex-band.

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07-04-05 Review: Eugene Kelly - Man Alive
Twenty years on from those early days in Bellshill he stands under his own name. Following the trail, through the Vaselines, Captain America, Eugenius and the new path setting, one-off, Astro Chimp, Mr. Kelly has rounded off some edges and found an easier going pace, landing in the same late 60s, So. Cal. wonderland his landsleit Teenage Fanclub have called home sine the new millennium came.

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07-04-04 Review: The Others - Everythings There!
In spite of them always having been regarded as one of THE European flag bearers of mid60s garage punk revival, for those in the know, it doesnt take more than a song or two to realize that The Others are more about the jangle than the fuzz, while still providing enough of both by way of 60s teen punkers such as The Dovers, securing a place within any kind of a sixteez obsessed mynd.

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07-04-02 Review: Billy Bremner - No Ifs, Buts, Maybes
Having a CV such as the one of Billy Bremner, might as well become a pretty heavy load to carry around, with it eventually outgrowing the man himself, and becoming a possible listeners main focus, instead of the mans music itself.

Giving it a spin or two, youll realize that his own stuff has a certain quality that might actually garner some of its own audience, not at all aware of all the press release tidbits, meant for us record collecting geeks, who just cannot help but mention at least the spiciest of them all.

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07-04-01 Review: The DT's - Filthy Habits
Describing the DTs vocalist Diana Young-Blanchard in the promo sheet as Tina Turner and Bon Scotts most pissed off bastard love child in heat is pretty much as close as it gets, though it mightve even gotten straight to the point by replacing Tina with Janis, and thats exactly what the album opens and closes with, in its dirtiest hard raw-kin glory, staring with the pair of April Holeso, and Mystified and ending with Lights Out.

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07-03-20 Article: Gary Pig Gold - Ten You May Have Missed In 2006
Gary Pig Gold is back with Ten You May Have Missed In 2006. This year recommendations go to Big Boy Pete, Cheap Trick, Electric Prunes, Sleeping Giant, The Sprague Brothers and five more

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07-03-17 Review: Various Artists - The Young Idea
Not exactly a young one, but an idea of recapturing the vibe of mid  swinging London was considered to be quite a MODern one during the late  and early , with Anthony Meynell, along with his squires, being among those faces most instrumental in creating a scene around the idea in question.

With the idea being spread all across the ocean as well, heres a tribute being initiated by those American admirers and friends, and finally realized as a joint effort, with the European numbers providing a fair share of contribution as well.

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07-03-14 Review: The Squires Of The Subterrain - Rock It Racket
Not really up there with their 2003 collaborative effort Strawberries On Sunday (reviewed elsewhere on these pages), I suppose the initial idea for this one came after unearthing another bunch of Big Boy Pete recordings, this time from 1976, not being of the usual too far out quality, but sticking exclusively to the rockabilly and country racket.

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07-03-13 Review: Jameson - Color Him In
Cutting a long and quite confusing story short(er), Bobby started out as himself on the mid60s folk-rock scene in L.A., winding up under the supervision of no less than Andrew Loog Oldham, and releasing an Oldham-produced/co-written, and therefore supposedly Rolling Stones-backed, Decca single in 1965 (featuring a rare Jagger/Richards b-side) .

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07-03-12 Review: Kangaroo - Kangaroo
Being remembered mostly for a couple of trivia details such as ND Smarts previous involvement with The Remains, as well as the later one with Mountain and Gram Parsons, or the pre-fame presence of Barbara Keith, Kangaroo never really made THE jump, that would make them stick out of the crowdy late 60s Greenwich Village scene.

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07-03-09 Review: Jeff Murphy - Cantilever
For those used to wearing power-pop shoes over the years, the name of Jeff Murphy shouldnt be an unknown one, because its those very same Shoes, that he started to wear way back in the mid70s, when it wasnt really cool to do so. Now, no less than 10 years since the last Shoes release, and for the first time on his own right, Jeff proves that he still can till ever do it.

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07-03-07 Review: Mars Bonfire - Faster Than The Speed Of Life
There are several reasons why the name of Mars Bonfire should be regarded as quite an important entry in every rocknroll related encyclopedia, and while being as good as any itself, none of these reasons happen to be his own LP, originally released on the Uni label in 1968, soon to be re-issued on Columbia.

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07-03-01 Review: The Ditchflowers - Carried Away
Fronted by the Top 4 Finalist in Folk Category of the 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Competition, and the bands primary author, Ed Woltil, along with an ex-Barely Pink leader Brian Merrill, this one fits pretty easily into the usual (power) pop abundance. Now, having realized this, lets see if theres that desperately needed moment, peculiar enough to carry the whole thing away from the (not necessarily bad) stereotype. Well, there is ... are actually, at least three, or maybe even four of them, if you ask me.

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07-02-28 Review: The Fire Escape - Psychotic Reaction
Not so much because of the songs themselves (8 out of 10 being covers), nor an originality of the sound neither, but The Fire Escapes only release on GNP-Crescendo (1967) is still being regarded as a pretty collectable item, being a kind of a precursor to the Nuggets-and-related concepts, no less than five years before Lenny Kayes own comprehension of the whole thing.

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07-02-27 Review: Food - Forever Is A Dream
In spite of it being considered for one quarter of Capitols most-collectable psych LPs (along with Gandalf, The Common People and Euphoria), I wouldnt call Foods only album, released in 1969, an underrated classic of the genre, nor a lost masterpiece, or something similarly pompous, but it does fit under a decent-psychedelic-artifact-of-its-time tag pretty well.

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07-02-23 Review: Andrew - 33: The Best Of ...
Having been doing so much research about some of the coolest bands/artists gracing the pop universe, its no wonder that scanning the back of Andrew Sandovals mind mightve shown an archive of songs never written by the likes of Michael Brown, Boyce & Hart, Chris White, Gene Clark or Hollie Ransford.

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07-02-22 Review: Young Modern - How Insensitive
After last years expanded re-release of their 1979 Play Faster album on Aztec Music (reviewed elsewhere on these pages), and after being considered to be too-hip-to-be-hip for too long of a time, the self proclaimed ultimate suburban band has finally grown to become not really young, but definitely modern enough, and recognized as one of true greats of Australian rocknroll.

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07-02-17 Review: Baby Woodrose - Love Comes Down
Starting out as a side project to the psychedelic stoner group, Baby Woodrose has grown to become a main vehicle for making the bands kaleidoscopic, mostly 60s-influenced, and not-so-stoned visions, receptive to a much wider audience, while still managing to make the stoners stick around as well.

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07-02-16 Review: The Royal Purple - Transcendental Medication (+ 2!)
Getting under the shade of The Royal Purple Umbrella almost three years late myself, Im happy to suggest that this might be your own shelter from the moderndaze as well. What started out as an unpretentious appreciation of obscure sixties records (sometimes so rare that it in order to make them available for a wider audience it was easier to re-record them than just simply recommend them).

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07-02-07 Review: Reg King - Reg King (+ Missing In Action)
Having arrived just a bit late to shake some serious action on the POPISM list of Best re-releases in 2006, I consider these (sky)high contenders anyway ... and I mean like POW!!!
The first one is the re-issue of Reggies 1971 solo album on United Artists, initially intended for the Marmalade label, run by Giorgio Gomelsky, who in spite of not really warming up to The Actions lost 1967/68 Brain/Rolled Gold sessions, did however realise the potential of their front mans voice of the generation, which mustve seemed pretty unwise to slip out of hand, before giving it at least another chance.

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07-02-06 Review: Tony Hazzard - Sings Tony Hazzard
With a spookily similar career trajectory during the second half of the sixties, to the one of Graham Gouldman, as put by Andy Morten in the accompanying liners, Tony Hazzard also happens to be among the very few, if not the only one, sharing the same ability of churning out hook-laden pop confectionery, with its signature style usually being a sure pass to the charts of the swinging decade.

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07-02-01 Review: Water School - Break Up With ...
When it comes to the Americans and the British throwing each others influences back and forth, the debut album of this Baltimore bunch seems like a great example of the so called ping-pong effect, being chock full of that genuine Glaswegians-scratching-around-the-American-legacy charm.

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07-01-31 Review: The Routes - Left My Mind
Accused for being one of the highlights of Motor Sounds Blood On The Scratchplate 65 comp on these very pages, just as promised back then, The Routes are back with a full blown rave up, with their minds being left far behind, somewhere between January of 1964 and December of 1965, when the British rnb boom was shaking the grounds all over the world.

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07-01-30 Review: The Doll Squad - The RocknDoll Sound Of ...
An elite army of female assassins...in a race against time and death to save the world from a hideously diabolical mass destruction at the hands of a madman no one had ever seen! is how IMDb describes Ted V. Mikel's 1974 movie, sharing its name with this bunch of Oz Dolls, whose task seems just a tad easier, but none the less important.

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07-01-29 Review: The Fast Camels - The Magic Optician
Not too unlike it was the case with Neon Tetras last year release of The Ronelles debut album (reviewed elsewhere on these pages), heres an (very) early contender for one of the best albums in 2007, according to the magic spectacle of POPISM.

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07-01-27 Review: The Lost 45s - The Next Projected Sound Of ... [Double 7]
After last years debut album What Time Do You Call This??? (reviewed elsewhere on these pages) being hailed by modernsists all over the scene(s), followed by some serious live action, including the conceptually triumphant Who-support gig.
The Lost 45s are back to their destined media form, releasing not only one but two (!) of them at the time, just to make sure they dont run out of them, while trying to find the lost ones.

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07-01-26 Review: Daniel Wylie - Lets Go Surfing [CD EP]
... but before we go, lets just clear one thing up, and its that this isnt THAT kind of a surf, because Dannys still riding those cosmic West Coast sun rays, while the closest he gets to the actual beach, is the sand from Brian Wilsons living room, that you can almost feel under your feet, listening to Never Fall Apart with a big SMiLE on your face.

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07-01-25 Review: Tommy Roe - It's Now Winters Day
Any decent Curt Boettcher/Millennium-and-related fan is well aware of Tommy Roes Its Now Winters Day album, recorded at the end of 1966 and released early 1967, in between his more usual bubblegum chews.

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07-01-25 Concert: The Branded
If you are situated in the Malm/Lund/Copenhagen area you shouldnt miss the Brandeds first proper gig in hometown Malm. The party will take place February 2nd at a venue called Bodoni at Bergsgatan 20, close to Kulturbolaget (KB).

This raw rock'n'roll trio have 4 killer songs with a great vintage sound on their myspace site.
Check them out and dont miss whats happening 2007!
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07-01-24 Review: Cloud Eleven - Sweet Happy Life
The first proper album after 2002s Orange And Green And Yellow And Near, with 2004s collection of unreleased and rare recordings Terrestrial Ballet keeping us high on the eleventh cloud in between. Sweet Happy Life finds Rick Gallego practicing the usual pop wizzardry, exploring mostly the same old late '60s/early '70s musical legacy, in an even more sophisticated way.


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07-01-09 Review: Various Artists - Sugarlumps 2
The second installment of the Sugarlumps series is just as easy to swallow as the first one (reviewed elsewhere on these pages), sticking to its initial mish mash of psychedelic pioneers and their more contemporary disciples, along with a couple more being somewhere in between.

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07-01-05 Review: The Others/Sands/Sun Dragon - Listen To The Sky
Just in time to make POPISMs year list of the best re-issues in 2006! Basically, this might as well be called The modsikerhythmnbeat adventures of Rob Freeman and Ian McLintock, with the two of them being involved with all of the above mentioned bands, as well as the post-SUN DRAGON projects HIGH NOON and McLINTOCK.

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07-01-04 Review: Various Artists - Takin A Detour
Offering a swirling double decker bus ride (as suggested by the cool pop-artish cover art) around the world, the only detours youll be taking with this one, are the ones towards the latest generation of (mostly) 60s inspired in-crowd.

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07-01-03 Review: The Bush - Got Bush If You Want It!
Heres another one of those worn-out stories about a local act gaining an almost God-like status within the neighborhood, while kinda remaining in the bushes outside of the fence. On the other hand, a fact not so usual is that theres at least one song, significant enough to secure them a place on a Nuggets type of a map, usually being made some twenty years or so upon the bands actual existence.

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07-01-02 Review: Various Artists - Hipsters
Mod, garage, freakbeat, rnb, soul, boogaloo or whatever other kind of a groove it may be, all of these hipsters are wearing their mid-to-end 60s influences proudly on their sleeves, making this collection seem like a kind of an overview of the kaleidoscopic sound variety that graced the swinging sixties.

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06-12-21 Review: Mighty Baby - A Jug Of Love
After shakin some stompin blue-eyed mod action throughout the mid sixties, and then evolving towards the more psychedelicate and brainy, at the time unreleased, Rolled Gold material, 1969 sees the birth of the Mighty Baby.

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06-12-19 Review: Various Artists - Blood On The Scratchplate 65
With this kind of a subtitle, and liners describing it as hard hitting, alcohol fused, in the red, testosterone driven primal and primitive RocknRoll, not much of a doubt is being left, except maybe for the slightly misleading 65 part, which doesnt really happen to be untrue, but its just that you might want to know that this comes from a moderndaze perspective of the years deepest underground, for which there was no way to appear even near the surface.

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06-12-16 Review: Terry Manning - Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home had never really managed to become an underground classic in its truest sense, in spite of having much more of what it takes than usual, such as an ex-garage punk band member (Lawson and Four More), brief Bobby Fuller Four member, an Ardent Recording Studios engineer.

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06-12-15 Review: Mastica - Restyling 12 [EP]
Already gaining quite an attention among late60s/early70s acid rock fans, this Italian bunch doesnt actually offer too much of a restyling of what theyve been doing most of the time, which doesnt happen to be a bad thing at all.

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06-12-14 Review: The Maharajas -Weekend Sparks EP [7]
Not being in the mood to back up last years Best Album in 2005 according to POPISM title, The Maharajas still managed to at least sneak into this years list as well, with this short set of usually sparkling garage beatsters that are sure to make anyones weekend!

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06-12-13 Review: Majority One - Rainbow Rockin Chair
After releasing eight Decca singles between 1965 and 1968 as The Majority, they decided that moving from England to France might garner some more interest into the band, which eventually did happen, securing them a place on Oldies radio stations in South America of all places, as well as Top 10 and Top 20 positions in Italy and Holland respectively.

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06-12-07 Review: Various Artists - Here's To Old England
With The Times I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape and This Is London already reviewed elsewhere on these pages, this is actually the first of the reproductions from the ArtPop picture gallery, featuring a kind of a short retrospective of the ever-changing mod-ernist hipster persona of Ed Ball, as shown through a Time-capsule, covering a period from as far as 1978 up until 1999.

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06-12-05 Review: Various Artists - Mondo Girls
Being a usual mish mash of styles when it comes to girly 60s comps, Mondo Girls still manages to squeeze them all under the floorshaking common denominator, gathering 20 tracks from all over the mondo, into a lovely pop-artish package.

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06-12-01 Review: Darron J Connett - (Gotta Keep your) Soul Clean [7]
Having enough star potential for his ego not only to be ascending but sky rocketing, to use the good old clich, Darron J Connett is what you might consider for the next big thing role model, no matter whether you like him or not.

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06-09-11 Review: The Purple Hearts - Benzedrine Beat!
Having more than enough British origins within their changing line-up, The Purple Hearts made sure that the mid60s rnb boom shakes the Oz ground just as hard as it did in Britain .

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06-09-09 Review: Various Artists - An Apple A Day
A sequel to 94 Baker Street Songs, An Apple A Day offers us a bite even further into the Apple, providing no less than 15 unreleased tracks from the Apple Music Publishing catalogue, all displaying initial songwriting attempts leading at least some of the authors such as Pete Ham, & Tom Evans or Graham Lyle & Benny Gallagher towards bigger fame.

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06-09-08 Review: The Jigsaw Seen - My Name Is Tom
Being unavailable since about two years after its initial release in 1991 on Skyclad, the original 5-song EP by the renowned L.A. paisley psychedelicate popsters is being re-released for the first time on their own label, with the track listing being doubled with 4 unreleased tracks as well as an additional V.A. comp track.

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06-09-07 Review: The Someloves - Dont Talk About Us
.. and not only the real pop recordings but pretty much everything theyve ever released ... and bit more, which again isnt that much unfortunately, but here you have it all gathered in one lovely double-CD package, with the only objection being the chunky 36-page booklet which seems just impossible to be squeezed into the jewel case :-) .

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06-09-06 Review: Mortimer - Mortimer
Being forever overshadowed by their brief liaison with Apple Records, in spite of never even getting a chance for a full bite, Mortimer is a bunch of ex-garage rockers (as The Teddy Boys), hailing from another (Big) Apple, turning mellower under the influence of sounds of the day, coming both from the American West Coast, as well as Britain.

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06-09-05 Review: The Attack - About Time!
About time indeed! Even though many of you probably have at least some of the already available more-or-less official attacks at the matter, as appropriately described in the subtitle, this is the definite and the best sounding one! ... at least until the cardboard box with the remainder of unreleased 1967 sessions tapes pops up somewhere.

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06-06-07 Review: David And Jonathan - David And Jonathan
Mostly known as another one of those quite usual pair of names in the brackets, this pair of Rogers, Cook and Greenaway that is, enjoyed their own share of spotlight outside of the brackets too.

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06-06-06 Review: Don & The Goodtimes - So Good
After providing their own share in generating the infamous Northwestern mid60s sound along with a bit more prolific likes of The Wailers and The Sonics, fronted by the guy responsible for the just as infamous keyboard riff in The Kingsmens Louie Louie, not unlike most of their contemporaries, Don & The Goodtimes moved along with the times, catching up with the wave of sunshiny harmonies and generally more melodic based sounds.

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06-05-24 Review: Stingray Green - Hard Numbers
Leaving behind the cartoon-like Monkee-business of his Vandalias-alter ego, Dan Sarka comes out into the light, teaming up (again) with Kent Militzer and Dan Boardman, along with their garage punk origins, to power things up even more.

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06-05-23 Review: Adam Power - What Were Sundays For
After his debut More Juice from three years ago, which was actually a collection of recordings made over a six year period, Adam Power comes back with his first intentional album, created, just like all of his previous studio efforts, with a generous help of pop-wiz from Oz, Michael Carpenter.

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06-05-16 Review: The Miracle Men - Dont Hide Your Love [7]
Before they came to the scene with their debut album Theyre Coming, released on Teen Sound this year (reviewed elsewhere on these pages) , one of the latest products of the Dutchbeat revival, The Miracle Men, announced their arrival with these 7 inches of pure beat extravaganza, as previously done by their native genre forefathers.

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06-05-10 Review: The Fumetones - Now, At The... Minibar !! [7]
Considering the cover art, inspired by the best of sixties cartoons, this one just couldnt go wrong. Rooted deep into the retro legacy of such garage-punk revival pioneers as The Gruesomes or The Miracle Workers, these fuming Spaniards deliver the goods just as well.

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06-05-09 Review: The Electric Crayon Set - Dont Make Me Squeeze Yar balls, Man
A title like this, and a pair of spooky cats eyes staring right at me from the cover, providing not even a hint of something that I might like, seems as if I actually DO need someone to squeeze my balls to make me stick this into the player.

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06-05-08 Review: Dana Gillespie - Foolish Seasons
Mostly known for her latter days blues styled offerings, or most notably, her 80s hit Move Your Body Close To Me, Dana Gillespie started out as another mid60s Pye-girl, eventually leading to this overlooked folky popsike gem of 1968 Swinging London.

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06-04-21 Review: Lane Steinberg - The Return Of Noel Cowards Ghost
After a pair of Tan Sleeve albums in 2004 and 2005, Lane Steinberg returns to his Noel Cowards Ghost persona from 1995, for a slightly quirkier exploration of the matter, that used to be described by some as Frank Zappa & The Zombies making a Left Banke album.

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06-04-20 Review: The Wildbeests - Annie Get Your Gnu
If youve already had a chance to be freaked out by these kinds of beests, youre most probably aware that theres nothing new or revolutionary to be heard within this wilde piece of vinyl.

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06-04-18 Review: The Heatwave - Honeymelon Teapot [LP]
For nearly 40 years this fascinating document of Dutch garage and psychedelic beat music has lain in the shadows just waiting to be discovered. Grey Past have issued a few highly rewarding spins in the last few years: the complete recordings of NV Groep 65; and two magnificent glimpses into eastern-style beat sounds with the compilations Turkish Delights and Steam Kodok.

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06-04-17 Review: Bert Sommer - The Road To Travel
Theres quite a few references to be used to promote this first ever CD re-release of this stunning 1968 album, by a guy who will be considered an unknown by most, which is exactly what he happens to be, making another perfect template for those shoulda-been rocknroll stories.

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06-04-10 Review: The Stems - Terminally Cool
Even though The Stems are considered a household name among the moptopped garageheads all over the world, after a coupla recent Aussie-only re-releases, this one might be the very definition of long overdue!

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06-04-07 Review: Mike Badger & Friends - Lo- Fi Electric Excursions
Being a perfect companion to the previous collection of Lo-Fi Acoustic Excursions, this one features the same line up of Mike Badger-related bands, this time around plugging in for an electrifying set of demos, live takes and even dub versions, dating from 1985 to 2000.

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06-04-06 Review: The Mustangs - Riverside Garage Legends...
Even though most of their recorded output consists of more or less usual (but often pretty cool) cover versions, the couple of originals they managed to churn out during their short time span, makes The Mustangs great to see being back from the grave ... and thats for sure!

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06-04-05 Review: The Situation - The Situation
As with their debut mini album three years ago, The Situation makes it clear that the situation they care about the most, is the one in and around the English North Country scene at the turn of the80s and 90s and its own perspective of the sixth decade, mostly resulting in the Mancunian kind of a psychedelic jangle.

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06-04-04 Review: The Chains - The Beatles Of El Paso
Except maybe for a bunch of local kids for a brief moment in 67, The Chains werent really The Beatles neither by importance and especially not musically, but they sure might be considered for another one of those unknown treasures that couldve shone much brighter than it did.

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06-04-01 Review: Green Circles - Black Vinyl Heart
After two albums released only in their homeland down under, this one compiles the best of their powered-up mod rave-ups (check out the reviews of both Australian albums elsewhere on these pages), that is sure to find their place in the black vinyl hearts of the European mop-topped kids.

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06-03-31 Review: Chris Brown - Now That Youre Fed
Just as the news about David Grahame quitting the business hit the pop world, here comes Chris Brown, continuing exactly whered left off.

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06-03-30 Review: The Cavemen - Il buio e tra di noi
You dont really have to think twice to get an idea about where the main Cavemen influences come from. Rooted mostly in the mid60s American garage punk sounds, they tend to combine the authenticity of the genre originators, with the second hand perspective of their own Italian-beat forefathers, with the first half of the album also being sung in their native language.

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06-03-28 Review: The Sick Rose - Blastin Out
Though I might prefer the purer 60s garage approach of their earlier works, its pretty obvious that The Sick Rose have progressed towards a more contemporary, full blown blastin pop sound, as they label it themselves, that should apply to a much wider audience

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06-03-27 Review: The Miracle Men - Theyre Coming
As the promo sheet says The Dutch-Beat scene is alive and well, but we all know that already, dont we? Still, its good to see that a new bunch of mop-topped youngsters pops up every now and then, ready and willing to continue the legacy of The Outsiders, Q65 and the like.

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06-03-24 Review: Long Tall Shorty - Women & Trouble
After last years CD single, taking them even further away from their initial post-punk mod revival aesthetics, towards some more appropriate sounds, suggested by the band name itself, with this latest long-playing release, Long Tall Shorty makes an official turn-over to a full-blown rnb combo, with its roots knee-deep in the vibes of early60s Britain.

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06-03-16 Article: What If? Buddy Holly not taken that one last ride...
Gary Pig Gold channels the Cricket that got away. Those shouldve been the days, had Buddy Holly not taken that one last ride, that is
06-03-15 Review: Magneto - Resistance Is Futile
Though mostly sticking to the more than usual B-bands influenced power-pop formula, Im pretty sure that some of these hooks from down-under will make you realise that resistance really is futile.

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06-03-15 Review: Jane vs. World - 56k Hearts [CDEP]
Remember Shampoo from the mid90s? Replace the trashy glam image with the kind of a bespectacled, nerdy-looking, cardigan-wearing pair of teenage girls, put them in the studio with an all-round pop-wiz (Michael Carpenter), let them write some insanely catchy tunes with witty, Fountains of Wayne-like lyrics, and youll get pretty close to the strategy of Jane vs.World.

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06-03-14 Review: The Eddies - Modern Music For Modern Times
After hearing that The Eddies are scheduled for a whole bunch of forthcoming mod-revival tribute albums (The Manual Scan/Shambles, Squire, The Jet Set, The Risk), seeing three rather ordinary looking guys on the cover of their 2004 debut, came as a bit of a surprise.

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06-03-13 Review: The Cinders - Jet Set Gipsy [7 EP]
Its nice to have Pop The Balloon back again with this newly-pressed 7 single. After the return in 2004 with a great pop 7 (Dwight Twilley Band) the label now draws their attention to rawk and roll. (See label background in Articles).

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06-03-12 Article: Gary Pig Gold
Gary Pig Gold is back again with Ten You May Have Missed In 2005.
06-03-12 Mailorder: James Cooper (signed)
We now have a few signed copies of James great debut CD Second Season in our Mailorder. Listen at - James Cooper web site
06-03-07 Review: The Ronelles - Motel
After creating quite a buzz on the Glaswegian scene, The Ronelles are the youngest bunch of Highlands beatsters, getting ready to take over either The Beatstalkers Scotlands No.beat group or maybe even The Poets Scotlands No.band label.

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06-02-22 Mailorder: Richard Snow
We now have Richards latest CD Tuesday Music in our mailorder for only SEK 109.

Please check out our interview with him (Articles) and this great album!
06-02-21 Review: Floor - 1st Floor
Being referred to as the Danish Sgt. Pepper could be a pretty heavy torch to carry, but if you dont set your expectations too high, this might be quite a pleasant trip down the softish harmony popsike lane, as proven right from Peppery, horn-fuelled arrangement of the opening Damned Little Fool, otherwise sounding halfway between Freddie & The Dreamers and Hermans Hermits.

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06-02-20 Review: Orphan Egg - Orphan Egg
This San Jose band earned themselves a record deal through a Vox Battle of the Bands, resulting in whats occasionally being referred to as a rather disappointing LP, which I strongly disagree with.

Continues at Reviews.
06-02-11 Review: The Fay Hallam Trinity - Realm
Considering the past she had spent makin time, my expectations regarding this one mightve been set a bit too high, but then again, I couldnt really expect her Hammond-organisation to be accompanied with a Marriott-like soulful growl, could I?

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06-02-10 Review: Various Artists - Mas RocknRoll
After revolving around 33 and 45 RPM exclusively, the Electro Harmonix label decided to catch up with the moderndaze adapting themselves to the pocket-size format.

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06-02-10 Album launch: James Cooper
James will be launching his debut album Second Season on Feb 16 at The Troubadour, London.
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06-02-09 Review: The Thanes - The Complete Undignified Noblemen Sessions
Though arriving a bit later, saying that The Thanes are to the British/European moderndaze garage beat scene what The Chesterfield Kings are to the American one, would be a pretty safe bet.

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06-02-09 Review: The Lost 45's - What Time Do You Call This?
After three lost 45s, here they are all, finally gathered on a new-found long-playing format, with some additional recordings, making a strong debut album by this Leeds based bunch of modernists.

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06-02-08 Review: The Preachers - Voodoo You Love?
Besides the foreword by Batlord himself, as well as an additional warning in the liners that The Preachers shouldnt be taken for Fuzztones-clones, its really preaching the gospel of fuzz that theyre the best at.

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06-02-07 Review: The Rookies - Out Of Fashion
Though more than two thirds of The Rookies debut longplayer consists of covers, these Italian retro garage punkers make such a cool choice that you cant help but forgive it all.

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06-02-06 Review: The Grains - Just Our Flame
According to their own origin, this Italian bunch of mop-topped beatsters, usually finds themselves halfway between Euro-freakbeat and a tad rawer American garage punk, throwing around pebblesnrubblesngrains.

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06-02-03 Review: Various Artists - Setting The Trends - Vol. 1 & 2
Compiled from vinyl sources exclusively, as they say, by collectors for collectors, both of these comps seem like perfect soundtracks for an imaginary mod all-nighter.

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06-02-02 Review: Peter Berry & The Shake Set - Wildberry Shake!
When it comes to the contemporary beat scene, being lead by two ex-Indikation members might be as good a reference for a band as any, if you are among those in the know.

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06-01-31 Review: Chesapeake Juke Box Band - Chesapeake Juke Box Band
As they put it themselves, two Beatle freaks teaming up with a Floyd freak and making musical left-turns, would be the easiest way to describe this album, though its more than obvious that theres really much more to it.

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06-01-19 Review: Focal Point - First Bite Of The Apple
If chasing Paul McCartney through Hyde Park for an Apple publishing deal, impressing Epstein and Lennon with demos, singing about John Mayall, getting a song almost released by Alan Price, or being dressed in a Kings Road-purchased Dandy regalia, arent enough a reference for another bunch of late Mersey arrivals to get things going, then all there is left to be concluded, is that there werent really any goods to be delivered.

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06-01-18 Review: James MacDonald - Naked Truth
Third time in a row, since the late 90s, James Macdonald is being hailed as Aussies own Beatlemaniac, in the vein of the likes of Elliot Smith or Neil Finn, with the whole bunch of just as eclectic digressions towards Bacharach, Rundgren, Rhodes, Frisco harmonies and the like.

06-01-17 Review: Sal Valentino - Come Out Tonight
Even though the ageing is clearly audible in his voice, the traces of a one-time folk-rock luminary are just as evident on the brand new album by the ex-Beau Brummels frontman, Sal Valentino.
06-01-14 Review: Bill Lloyd - Slide Show
Never over exposed, but ever-present on the international pop scene, Bill Lloyds 20-year (and still running!) career spawned a handful of genre defining examples of (power) pop/Americana.
06-01-12 Bad Hair Day (Per Gessle) - Free mp3
At his birthday today Per Gessle (b. 1959) is releasing 12 demos on his website www.sonofaplumber.com. All tracks are taken from his album Mazarin and can be downloaded from here. They even provided a CD-sleeve as well.
06-01-01 Review: David Grahame - Supergenious
Updating the melodic ways of pop luminaries such as Paul McCartney and his staples, Emitt Rhodes and Pete Ham, as well as predating the craft of contemporary songsmiths as Brendan Benson or Bart Davenport, its about time for the whole world to dig deeper into the supergenious of David Grahames essentially indie legacy.
05-12-28 Review: Frank Lee Sprague - Cavern
Expectedly so, the Mersey-Texan Frank Lee Sprague, continues exactly where hed left off with the previous album Merseybeat, all soaked up in the Star-Club/Cavern sweat.
05-12-26 Review: The Nederbietels - Where To Run [7]
Well, the band name and the cover of The Haigs freak (Dutch)beat classic tell it all really. With their third 7 vinyl release The Nederbietels firmly stick to the full-on pop artish mod outlook regalia, and its accompanying mid60s-inspired beat sounds.
05-12-26 Review: Dee-Rangers - Five Spanish Minutes
Classic Swedish garage-beat revival in the vein of The Creeps, The Strollers or The Maharajas, recording sessions with Don Craine of the Sect at Toe Rag, as well as an English member in the shape of the Solaflare Parsley the Lion, Farfi-sizing the overall sound, are all references that might be good enough for any cuban-heeled, mop-topped hipster, with his mind stuck somewhere between 1965 and 1967.
05-12-23 Review: Big Boss Man - Winner
Re-Mixing Weller (and taking it to UK TOP 20 if I may add), denying Coca Colas request to use a track and sitting in with Country Joes Fish or The Action, all might be as good references as any, but its all really just about the groovy dance floor boogaloo, making this a winner of any mod all-nighter.
05-12-22 Review: James Cooper - Second Season
This one came pretty much out of the blue, but it did get me just as sky-high.

Check out this great CD!
05-12-21 Review: VA - Who Will buy (These Wonderful Evils) Vol 1 & 2
Featuring a smorgosbord of sizzling Swedish rock, pop psych meatballs, the fist volume is divided onto two CDs of moderndaze and late60s evil.
05-12-20 Review: VA - 21st Century Liverpool Underground
Featuring three bands that never really managed to make it as big as they deserved, and 18 songs recorded between 2000 and 2002, this is where you get a chance to hear the very roots of most of whats happening on the Mersey shores these days.
05-12-19 Review - Embrooks
Goran has reviewed their last CD 45 & High Times.

If you have never experienced the high times according to The Embrooks, this a perfect place to start. Unfortunately enough, as confirmed by Mole, the main Embrook himself, this happens to be the band swan song too, as they are no more. (GO)
05-12-16 Review - Bedsit Poets
The Summer That Changed is reviewed.
05-12-15 Review - Cinderepop
Their Skies Are Beautiful is reviewed.
05-12-09 Article - Per Gessle
An article about Per Gessle - "Heroes Are Hard To Find..." has been added (Swedish). It gives an argumentation for why he is a pophero. And this piece was written before Lonely Boys ... No I haven't heard the double CD with Son Of Plumber yet, but hope to get back with a review soon
05-12-07 Article - Richard Snow
We have interviewed Richard Snow who has released the great CD Tuesday Music this year. Read the interview at articles (English).
05-12-06 Review - Crustaceans
Goran has reviewed Im Happy If Youre Happy, the debut album from Crustaceans.

Though weve had problem with the internet connection this autumn we have added a couple of reviews each week and there are now 636 at the review section.

05-12-05 Review - Unearthed Merseybeat Volume 3
A review of the third volume in this series is now up.
05-09-06 No internet connection
I have moved this summer and this has led to that I have now been without internet connection at home for more then 8 weeks. I have been promised that it will be up and running again in the middle of September. I do hope so ...

I try to add reviews after work, but I can't keep up with all e-mails at the moment. Ill get back to you all as soon as I can.
05-06-15 Perfect From Now On
Perfect From Now On is a one day event in Malmo, Sweden. The party will take place June 25th at a venue called Inkonst and in a connecting park.

The bands playing are:
Calvin Johnson (US)
Television Personalities (UK)
International Airport (UK)
O.Lamm (FR)
Domotic (FR)
Riders (S/US)
Rough Bunnies (S)
Love is all (S)
Kompjotr Eplektrika (S)

Read more at Perfect From Now On
05-04-14 Giljoteens
From Goran's review today - The expectations set by a couple of single releases that preceded the long player, have been more that fulfilled, so dont make it too long before you Get A Head! ...
05-04-13 Bojax
The Complete Singles Collection Don't Look Back is reviewed today.
05-04-13 Nic Armstrong & The Thieves
In short, so far one of the albums of the year! says Goran in the review...
05-04-12 Dovers
Though the b-side of the compilation Pebbles Volume 2 is filled with great pop songs What Am I Going To Do is still a favourite.

Misty Lane have now re-released the Dovers compilation Were Not Just Anybody and Goran has reviewed it!
05-04-08 Roger Nichols & The Small Circle Of Friends
After being re-issued on CD only in Japan, it was about time for an album that is considered to be one of the foundation stones in creating the sunshine harmony pop genre, to find its official place in this part of the world too.

Read the rest of Goran's review now!

05-03-16 Rockin Horse
This wonderful band is now reviewed. Yes It Is a great album.
05-03-14 McFaddens Parachute
Fuzz-drenched psychedelica is delivered with raw intensity on Sweep Out The Brainfog. You can read the review now!
05-03-08 Rinaldi Sings
Ex-Moment member, Steve Rinaldi debut album Whats It All About is reviewed.
05-03-03 Ten You May Have Missed In 2004
Gary Pig Gold is back again with a new article - "Ten You May Have Missed In 2004".
05-03-03 Spring Collection
A review of the Spring Collection CD has been added.
05-03-02 Skooshny
Article about the Californian trio Skooshny (formed in the early 1970s) is uploaded, including an interview with songwriter Mark Breyer.

This article was up just in the Swedish language before - now it is translated from Swedish to English by Scott London.
05-03-02 Vinyl Kings
The new CD Time Machine is reviewed.
05-03-01 Eddies
A review of In The Sunshine has just been added.
05-02-28 500 Reviews!
We've had some problems with our News section but now everything should be working fine again. During these time Goran has been writing a lot of reviews which all have been added to our Review section.
Today we added review 500!

Here's a list of our latest additions!

UGLY BEATS - Bring On The Beats!
BLOCKED - Smashed Hits
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Heart So Cold
STRINGFELLOW, KEN - Soft Commands
LOONS - Paraphernalia
SATELLITERS - Hashish
MOCKERS - The Lonesome Death Of Electric Campfire
NICE MAN & THE BAD BOYS - The Art Of Hanging Out
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Floor Filler Killers
DAWE, TIM - Penrod
PROJECTILES - Hanging Out
REAL BAD NEWS - Black & White & Red All Over
BENS