Category Archives: Music

Here is the first single from The Darkness’s upcoming album Pinewood Smile, slated to be released in early October. The song is a rocker, an instant Darkness classic.

Judas Jump were something of a UK supergroup, with ex-members of The Herd, Amen Corner and The Mindbenders involved. Despite a fair amount of promotion and a contract with the Beatles’ label Parlophone, they only made one album and 2 … Continue reading →

After the superb and greatly underrated Swedish band Tages broke up, most of the members reformed as Blond, putting out just one superb album before calling it quits. Here are 3 wonderful tracks from their 1969 album The Lilac Years … Continue reading →

From Jellyfish’s 1993 album Spilt Milk, songwriters Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. and Andy Sturmer channel their inner Brian Wilson & Beatles through XTC compression, punctuated by Brian May guitar punches, with surreal lyrics out of Alice in Wonderland: Far behind … Continue reading →

This cool one-off by Open Mind called “Magic Potion” features a great video mashup, the best ‘60s psychedelic, pop culture collage I’ve yet seen! And dig the guitar solo that starts at 1:45!

Here’s a wonderful psych gem, with some wonderful playing, by a band fronted by a young Todd Rundgren. From the opening box-chords to the awesome flanging of the mix that starts at 0:57, this song rocks.

Macca turned 75 yesterday.