Compilations collecting genre obscurities have become ubiquitous in the decade since the re-release of Nuggets by Rhino in 1998. From Soul Jazz Records' expert retrospectives to idiosyncratic reissue labels like Subliminal Sounds, the average trip to the (proverbial?) record store promises not only the latest contemporary releases, but also a definitive sampling of once-obscure genres like Italo Disco and African Highlife. Stones Throw imprint Now-Again has assembled Forge Your Own Chains with this market saturation in mind. The 16-track survey of "Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges" recorded between 1968 and 1974 forgoes loyalty to a specific country or style of [...]
now this lysergic brothers and sisters, haunted ladies and gentlemen, woozy fuckers and fuckees, is a compilation. tired of nuggets, and pebbles and ummmm... geegaws? well take off yr irony hat and sneery spectacles coz this is fifteen wonderfully transcendent tracks of totally zonked excursions into the inner head-o-sphere. it's like some eerie united nations assembly of bad hair, bad drugs and righteous bloody psyche-outs. but this shroom-addled bastard fairly crackles with great skronks of e-lec-tri-city in amongst the nursery rhyme weirdness and trumpet solos and la-la-la's. it's an obscurists [...]
Baby Grandmothers - Being Is More Than Life [purchase] In 1967 Swedish rockers T-Boones left their beat/r'n'b origins behind and moved into looser, more psychedelic territories to keep up with the times. The newly opened rock club Filips in Stockholm needed a house band, so co-owner Bill Öhrström signed them on and re-named them Baby Grandmothers. During their brief existence from September 1967 to July 1968 they managed to squeeze in one recording session and a quick tour with Jimi Hendrix, during which Hendrix cut his hand on [...]
I'm not sure how many of you have been reading this page for a while, but some of you may remember last summer's "The Great Chili Cook-off That Never Was" . 368 days ago, I tried to attend the Beverly Hills Farmer's Market Chili Cook-off. I showed up too late, and lamented my misfortunate for longer than I should have considering I didn't have a job or anything to do that day anyway. Nevertheless, when I saw this past week that somebody had Google'd "Beverly Hills Farmers Market Chili Cook-off", I got to thinking that maybe it was an [...]
To celebrate the software upgrade to Rock Town Hall, here are a few downloads that were uploaded to the site with ease...thanks to the upgrade! Workers in The Back Office know what I'm talking about. Mad props to the IT/design staff. Lightnin' Hopkins, "Coffee House Blues" Baby Grandmothers, "Being Is More Than Life" Sun Ra, "Music from the World Tomorrow" [...]
Since you all needed my help so badly last year, I offered you a list of five possible New Years Eve alternatives to going out, and partying, and having a good time. That's because you're all Internet nerds who need to be told what to do all the time. Don't even try to deny it. If you read this website, you are probably a really big nerd who cannot claim to have many friends. Look, I'm not here to judge you, I just think it's important for you to come to terms with the fact that this is your station [...]
While many other country's get their due for being breeding grounds of the psychedelic scene, Sweden is just getting theirs in retrospect. A massive gathering of talent in the area left behind a slew of releases that are seeing acceptance with a wider audience due to some great reissue labels and some hometown startups like Subliminal Sounds. Baby Grandmothers - Baby Grandmothers Though they only recorded one single at the time, which was released in Finland and not their native Sweden, The [...]
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