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Grace Slick put the "great" in The Great Society, and when she left in '66 she took "Somebody To Love" and all the Society's cache. Formed in '64, The Great Society was an imaginative, psychedelic-Indian music intellect on the new music scene, popular at The Matrix in San Francisco and powered also by Darby Slick, Grace's brother-in-law and author of "Somebody," on guitar. Slick's "White Rabbit," variously described as a trip piece and a smart-mouthed warning to parents, is one of The Great Society's most memorable numbers....more

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  • Of Great and Mortal Men

    by Matt GewolbJuly 9, 2008Comments (0)

    But Kiefer, Gerken, and Pitcher are the stars of the show—imparting history lessons and political commentary along with jangling guitars and killer hooks. (read more)

  • Suze Rotolo: Every Picture Tells a Story

    by Bob HillJune 25, 2008Comments (9)

    In A Freewheelin’ Time Rotolo uses her relationship with Dylan as the focal point for everything else happening around them. And in that sense Bob Dylan plays a central role. But—to her credit—Rotolo never exploits the relationship for her own purpose. And she doesn’t waste entire chapters obsessing over Dylan’s every whim. She describes him as someone who was immensely talented, and often difficult. (read more)

  • Fleet Foxes

    by Angela ZimmermanJune 4, 2008Comments (1)

    "not an overblown record, but incredibly grand; not cerebral music, just really beautiful" (read more)

  • The Long Disappearance and Welcome Return of Vashti Bunyan

    by Steve MatteoMay 28, 2008Comments (0)

    Bunyan had released a single in 1965 under Oldham’s direction. It was a cover of a Jagger-Richards song, "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind" (the Rolling Stones’ version did not come out until the group’s Metamorphosis album, a collection of mostly unreleased tracks released in 1975). Under the direction of Oldham, Bunyan released a handful of singles in the mid-‘60s (read more)

  • Not Dead Yet: Why the Album Isn't Going Anywhere

    by Adam BunchMay 21, 2008Comments (8)

    By 2007, just four years after the very first iPods hit the shelves, single-song sales were already accounting for two-thirds of the music market. Individual tracks outsell albums online 19 to 1. And between 2000 and 2005, CD sales plummeted by 25 percent. Tower Records has crumbled. iTunes has exploded. (read more)

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