In 1966, The Sonics dropped their second album, BOOM, on Etiquette Records. After that, they largely faded away. But what what’s gone isn’t always forgotten. This is the story of how The Sonics’ Boom and their debut Here Are The Sonics festered in the background and went on to influence […]
The Breeders Story. This week, we delve into the explosive rise and chaotic collapse of The Breeders, the 90s alt-rock band that started as a middle finger to a control-freak frontman and ended in a hotel toilet full of heroin. Kim Deal spent years standing in the back of the […]
*Bob Dylan’s New York: Greenwich Village Folk Scene & Beyond | Full Music Documentary* – What happens when an unknown 19-year-old kid from Minnesota steps off a bus in the dead of winter and completely alters the trajectory of global music history? In the brilliant, atmospheric, and deeply nostalgic documentary […]
Last year, Geese released their (technically) fourth studio LP, Getting Killed. And suddenly they were everywhere and everyone was talking about them. This breakthrough album arrived after years of deliberate steps: high school experiments, lineup shifts, solo detours, and relentless sonic reinvention. Today we’re doing something a little bit different. […]
This week we’re talking about the Toadies — the band from Fort Worth, Texas that wrote one of the creepiest, most addictive rock songs of the 90s and then watched their own record label bury them alive. Vaden Todd Lewis and the guys ground it out in sweaty Texas bars […]
*The B-52’s Iconic 1982 US Festival Performance Is Pure Retro Energy! | B-52s: Live At The US Festival | Full Live Music* – What happens when one of the most eccentric, high-energy, and uniquely stylish New Wave bands of all time takes the stage in front of hundreds of thousands […]
Holiday weekends tend to be synonymous with sales at record stores these days, and the Memorial Day sale here in Texas definitely didn’t disappoint! Today I’ll be sharing what I picked up at the Josey Records shops in Dallas and Garland over the long weekend. And I got it all […]
The Seeds emerged as a cornerstone of 1960s Los Angeles garage rock, delivering raw, fuzz-driven protopunk that captured youthful rebellion against polished pop with their self-titled 1966 debut and follow-ups like A Web of Sound and Future. Their innovative no-bass lineup influenced punk pioneers like The Stooges and The Ramones, […]
This week we’re talking about Radiohead — the band that got famous for a song they hated, then spent the next thirty years trying to burn their own career to the ground. It starts with five awkward guys at a boys’ school in Abingdon who can only practice on Fridays. […]
*When The King of the Blues Welcomed Slash & Ron Wood Onstage | B.B. King: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2011* – What happens when the absolute King of the Blues takes the stage at one of the world’s most prestigious music venues and invites a powerhouse line-up of […]
