Artist: Bill Quick

The dozen songs on the Sounds From The Anthology Archives digital compilation are each excellent in their own, often hazed-out way. The collection's a mix of rare material that spans the '60s to the '80s and includes Karen Dalton, Betty Davis, Swedish garage rockers the Stomachmouths, Peruvian crew Telegraph Avenue (who turn in the wide-eyed, zoned-out awesome "Happy"), Indianapolis psych band Anonymous, Father Yod's Ya Ho Wha 13, etc. It exists to announce the Live + Archival series, a collaboration between the digital reissue label Anthology Archives and American Apparel's Viva Radio. We're told the series will be [...]

• Bill Quick - Take Me Away

Bill "Guillermo" Quick . Beautiful People

• Bill Quick - Beautiful People

I've been on a bit of a Spanish Psych kick the last while and this little-known gem has filled a number of gaps in my life I didn't know I had. American-born Bill Quick's sole 1972 release Maravillosa Gente is that lost acid folk masterpiece you and I are always dreaming of. Issued initially in Spain and then in Brazil a year later, the fine, fine people of Barcelona-based Wah Wah Records reissued it on cd and vinyl a few years back and that reissue [...]