The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band is one of those remarkable quasi-underground groups from the 1960s which nowadays inspires a sort of obsessive cult interest among certain individuals. As such, there's been more than enough amateur scholarship written on them for me to safely forgo much of an introduction or studied band history (I'd strongly recommend Tim Forster's comprehensive article ). In fact, if it were not for their conspicuous absence on the Rising Storm, I might think that any more ink shed on the band's records would be a waste of time. As it stands, [...]
A busking troubadour slumps, crumpled over an acoustic guitar case in a gaudy, cheap remake of Paul's Sgt. Pepper getup; numerous digital camera-toting tourists amble over a specific zebra crossing as if their legs were bursting with excessive amounts of lactic acid; and a wall three feet high is coated in scribbles directed at a band that've been inactive for over half a century. The fabled Abbey Road Studios inhabit a special corner of the surprisingly sedate, leafy outpost that is St. John's Wood, and music is of course ingrained in its very existence, as the voices of [...]
I'm trying to switch the hosting of the mixtapes and the player to icast.co.il - what do you think ? better? [Audio] STR Mixtape - Things We Lost In The Gutter Download Title Artist Starting Time A Child's Guide To Good and Evil The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Egyptian Gardens Kaleidoscope 02:10 Death Kit Train Cul De Sac 04:55 Simplex Subway 11:30 This Way Out Tim Clark 16:52 Ambition Smog 20:49 Twilight Time Leo Kottke 25:06 [...]
Joseph A. Morse, San Quentin Prison's Death Row, 1972. After nearly a decade of subsisting on valium, seconal, prison-made wine and a little heroin, I was introduced to LSD. My fellow condemned prisoners were a little reluctant to try the new chemical because of the gloomy environment, but I had practically been raised on death [...]
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Download (right click) 1. Total Slacker - Crystal Necklace 2. Sunglasses - Stand Fast (4:14) 3. TV-Resistori - Voi Ei Ei Voi Olla Totta (07:41) 4. Amo Joy! - The Sane Design (10:52) 5. Secret Cities - Vamos A La Playa (13:52) 6. Swell Maps - Read About Seymour (17:25) 7. Robyn Hitchcock - Propellor Time (18:49) 8. My Morning Jacket - Rocket Man (23:55) 9. Kathy Smith - Seven Virgins (28:44) 10. Roy Buchanan - Hey, Good Lookin' (32:27) 11. [...]
British folk-pop-rock Clientele , had announced the release of a new EP. Minotaur will be released on September 6th and will include seven new tracks by this fantastic band + one cover version for the psychedelic rock cult band - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (TWCPAEB). I like the Clientele, they're a nice group and their songwriting is excellent, but whenever someone covers a song by TWCPAEB, it's a cause for celebration. [...]
Holy shit. The debut LP by LA psychedelic one man band White Fence is absolutely stunning! Tim Presley , the man behind this - Please take me away, acid heads, to a trip in my subconscious world. Find Syd Barrett and let me sit with him for a game of chess. Get me on the treadmill with the guys from the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band , pass along the superglue from Mo Tucker to me (she's been holding it for too long anyway), [...]
"It's okay, I'm an artist." Andre Williams Jail Bait Billy Childish & The Buff Medways Just 15 Langley Schools Music Project You're Sixteen Bill Wyman Si, Si Je Suis Un Rockstar West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Eighteen Is Over The Hill [...]
No doubt that regular readers are familiar with the satirical Billy Corgan Twitter gimmick . It's really taken off in a ways that I could not have foreseen, and I have to assume that you all might be interested in an update. First, Corgan himself has acknowledged its existence. Official statement from the King Pumpkin, found in paragraph six of his mission statement thesis : I do plan on doing other things coming up though. I have notions to start 2 other bands and also release some more solo work. I would [...]
I think full contact St. Patrick's Day would me more interesting, don't you? Rather than simply pinching someone who wasn't wearing green, you mow them down with your car. It's a good style. Speaking of good styles, here's a quick and dirty mix of music that traces the general trajectory of slamming car bombs all night - from the good time to the sickness. The picture above is, indeed, the Chicago River. I definitely recommend going to Chicago for St. Patty's Day and also, surprisingly, Savannah, Georgia. Savannah's celebration is huge and amazing (with better weather), and if [...]
Like drugs and lovers, '60s psych pop groups were all about sharing songs. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band delighted in celebrating the work of their peers with a variety of covers that appeared on Volume One . West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, the more tuneful and pop-oriented response to Andy Warhol's and the VU's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, dabbled in many genres: lo-fi garage sounds, baroque pop compositions, rollicking vocal harmonies, sunshine psych pop, and general sonic fuckin' around. Their original songs were catchy, trippy, and fun, but it was when West Coast Pop Art Experimental [...]
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band were neither experimental, nor were they purveyors of pop art. That's not a good start. They fed off the contemporary underground appetite for Warhol and psychedelia, and used it to get laid. They may have been one of the most cynically opportunistic bands ever, no doubt helped in this by their producer Kim Fowley. Yet despite all of this, their recordings do have a certain charm. Here they attempt a cover of Zappa's Help, I'm a Rock . I've heard people say that they completely [...]
Despite an ever-increasing following from collectors since their demise, for the past thirty years the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band have stubbornly resisted attempts to uncover the truth behind their mythology. Almost every aspect of the group seems to beg unanswered questions. To begin with there was the name itself. Long and unwieldy, it seemed designed to defy recollection and sink the heart of poster designers everywhere. Was it a six-word manifesto of creative intent, or simply a cynical attempt to climb aboard the 'psychedelic' bandwagon? Then there were the song credits and album photos, according [...]
As the influence of Haight-Ashbury spread across the country, the sounds of sunny folk-rock began to permeate many band's catalogues. While the sound wouldn't last forever some that got left by the wayside crafted some prime examples of the time. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - A Child's Guide To Good And Evil The third album from this L.A. collective contains some truly gorgeous moments of harmony. Mixing folk, psych and bits of country into a blissful concoction [...]
May 23, 2007, 10:41am
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West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil (Reprise 1968) Late-sixties California soft psych that goes along perfectly with Moby Grape, Quicksilver, and later period Byrds (see below). Because of their name I always thought these guys were more on the goofy side of things (e.g. Holy Modal Rounders) but they only occasionally get into that territory on tracks like "Our Drummer Always Plays in the Nude." Need to track down more by these guys. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - "Eighteen [...]
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