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The Beach Boys were at a turning point in 1974. They had spent the previous six years in the commercial wilderness cranking out arty, clever albums, but there emerged a renewed interest in the surf/car sounds that first built their reputation. So this particular tour, presented in an often ragged video directed by band member Billy Hinsche as part of a film school project, is basically the last gasp of the more cerebral version of the Beach Boys.
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In the beginning, he was just the kid brother to O’Kelly, Ronald and Rudolph. Last of the Isleys to get into music, Ernie eventually became the fraternal funkateers’ utlity player, standard bearer and even leading light, as the group evolved into its inconceivable fifth decade.
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Experience Hendrix and Sony's Legacy Recordings will launch their monumental 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project on Tuesday, March 9, with the release of Valleys of Neptune, a newly assembled album of 12 fully-realized studio recordings.
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The 1920s had been a wild party for the city slickers but bad business, as usual, for the bulk of the Dis-United States--for folk who ploughed the fields, hacked the coal, or weaved till their minds broke and their hands bled.
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In 1970, a teenaged bassist named Terry Wilson slipped into a Pasadena, TX club to check out a local band and "was blown away by this tall skinny kid with buck teeth, who had a Farfisa organ set on top of his piano.
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Young and restless England, stirred up by rough sounds from gramophone and fairground loudspeaker, was waiting breathlessly for Bill Haley to come and take their forlorn, stooped, war-weary country by storm...
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On a construction site in Seattle, Washington, in 1959, two guitarists, Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, decided to perform together at local sock hops, initially as the Versatones.
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During the Swinging Sixties, which actually began in 1965 with the conquest of the American pop charts by the British Invaders spearheaded by the lascivious Mick Jagger...
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Any good student of pop-music history knows what happened in the 1970s: The broken bricks from the aesthetic street-fights of the '60s were scooped up and mortared into a new edifice, "rock"...
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Garage rock is a hard elephant to describe, in the light or in the dark. In some ways, almost everything qualifies. In others, nothing quite fits the bill.
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The first time I met Clifford Antone, he sold me a sandwich. He had opened a shop on Guadalupe, right around the corner from the first office of the Austin Sun on 15th Street, bringing his family's business in Houston to town.
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