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Given the wealth of musical-theatre talent that emerged in the early '60s, some gifted folk were bound to get lost. One such was John Jennings, who wrote the music and lyrics for Riverwind .
The Torquays were a totally obscure cover band composed of five American G.I.’s, all of whom had been stationed outside Frankfurt in 1961. They were discharged from the Army in 1964. And then… ...
Behold this list of the five most worthlessly obscure bands to be a part of The Sound Strike's Arizona boycott. 5. ... Some of Head's Myspace songs have upwards of 60 listens.
BEMIDJI, Minn. — The Monks’ lead singer and guitarist, Gary Burger, sits at a mixing console in his small home-recording studio near Bemidji. He’s thumbing through 40-year-old black and ...
Although the band’s place is firmly lodged in the history of San Francisco rock, the group remains so obscure that a bunch of upstart Britpop rockers in the ’90s thought they could simply ...
BEMIDJI, Minn. - The Monks' lead singer and guitarist Gary Burger sits at a mixing console in his small home recording studio near Bemidji. He's thumbing through 40-year-old black and ...
A few weeks ago I spoke with Chris Bishop, otherwise known as the man behind the great website Garage Hangover, which recalls obscure '60s garage-rock bands so you don't have to. After a few ...
The indie rock band Apples in Stereo has come back from a five-year hiatus with a new release, New Magnetic Wonder. ... as well as more obscure '60s bands and '70s progressive-poppers ELO.
Yet that's the story of The Shaggs, which started as an obscure girl band in Fremont, N.H., in the 1960s, broke up in the '70s, became a cult favorite in the '80s and inspired a musical that ...
He had always wanted to be a writer, and he thought back to what he knew — the East Bay ’60s music scene. ... he is familiar with the music of several obscure garage bands.