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• Wayne Kramer: Mad for the Racket and Not Near Done

  by Denise Sullivan•October 1, 2008•Comments (0)

  If ever there was a band of rock ‘n’ roll contrarians, it was Kramer's MC5, a ramshackle musical outfit typical of young bands in the post-Beatles/Stones era but with a trajectory that imploded them rather than skyrocketed them to fame. Claiming the avant-garde's Sun Ra and rock ‘n’ roll's Chuck Berry as inspiration, they started playing covers, and evolved to include in their repertoire grinding originals steeped (read more)

• Don't Blame It On the Boogie

  by Denise Sullivan•September 3, 2008•Comments (1)

  Before the shame of "Boogie Oogie Oogie", the boogie had seen some very good years—from the roaring ’20s and the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, up till the ’70s when consummate rocker Marc Bolan of T. Rex claimed he was Born to Boogie. (read more)

• Reflections in a Crystal Wind: A Forgotten Psychedelic Masterpiece

  by j. poet•August 20, 2008•Comments (0)

  Richard Fariña is one of the great unsung heroes of the ’60s singer-songwriter movement. (read more)

• A Grand Ol' Timeously With Baby Gramps

  by Denise Sullivan•August 13, 2008•Comments (5)

  Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and teller of tall tales, Gramps has spent a lifetime plundering the treasures of the old world, told and untold, ever since he was a young man—probably the youngest person on the planet to have ever gone by the sobriquet Gramps (that's where the Baby comes in). These days, as back then, he keeps alive early 20th century standards like "Teddy Bears' Picnic", "St. James Infirmary", and "Big Rock Candy Mountain" along with lesser-known (read more)

• Juliana Hatfield

  by Matt Gewolb•August 13, 2008•Comments (1)

  "Hatfield’s voice is imbued with a natural levity that turns the rote to witty" (read more)

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