Their Sympathetic Majesties Request provides the uninitiated with an excellent overview of independent label Sympathy for the Record Industry. This two-disc collection, subtitled "A Decade of Obscurity and Obsolescence (1988-1998)," actually focuses on the first five years of that span, from 1988 to 1993. SFTRI founder and all-around eccentric ...
Bomp! was, in addition to being a pioneering historical-savvy rock fanzine in the 1970s, a label that put out some notable early punk singles, and (with its AIP and Voxx subsidiaries) reissued tons and tons of '60s garage/punk. In the 1980s and 1990s most of its contemporary releases were in the psych/pop/punk/garage revival mode. It is fair to ...
Coming in with three CDs and 58 tracks, Psycho Killers offers all the UK psychobilly sounds everyone but the hardiest listener could ever hope for. Taking its cue from the music of the Cramps, this is raunchy, twisted stuff, and although it wears thin over the course of such an extensive collection, in fits and starts it's hugely entertaining. ...
Every Day Is a Holly Day features 17 tracks compiled by French record executive Patrick Mathé to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the passing of Buddy Holly. It is a tremendous success with just about every act delivering the goods. Red River's "Rave On" moves like a sensitive Ramones -- if there ever was such a thing -- following "Words of ...
There is a good reason why a lot of '70s and '80s punk bands were attracted to '50s rockabilly and '60s garage rock. Punks, in many cases, craved rawness and simplicity, and neither of those things are hard to find in early rock & roll. Singer Tav Falco and his band Panther Burns were among the '80s/'90s bands that combined a rootsy outlook with a ...
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