Results for Bobby Charles

  • Sly and the Family Stone: There's a Riot Goin' On

    by Miles Marshall LewisOctober 15, 2008Comments (3)

    Immensely bleak, moody, seductively despairing, and funky, Riot laid a sonic backdrop for the nation­wide cultural and political disintegration of sixties fallout. (read more)

  • Charles Manson: When I Get to the Bottom

    by Brian BrownJune 11, 2008Comments (44)

    Dennis Wilson called Manson his Wizard and the two became very close, swapping girls, songs, and religious ideas. Wilson meanwhile championed Manson to the elite music establishment by opening all sorts of doors for him, dropping him off, guitar in hand, at the hippest gatherings and playing his demos to whomever would listen. He even used Manson’s ideology in interviews. Suddenly the surfing, All-American, beefcake Beach Boy was talking about fear (read more)

  • Vetiver

    by Jocelyn HoppaMay 14, 2008Comments (15)

    "this covers album is full of revered yet obscured singer-songwriters" (read more)

  • Modern Rock Goes Back to the Future

    by Bob HillNovember 28, 2007Comments (10)

    In the beginning man created measures, and in their image created all manner of music. Perhaps that means everything that came after was somehow derivative, that the evolution of music was more like a series of building blocks (read more)