 Flamin’ Groovies “I Can’t Hide”By
Douglas Newman
For my money, the Stones’ brand of booze-soaked blues and roll was perfected not by a group of British lads, but rather by a kick-ass cult band out of San Francisco called the Flamin’ Groovies.  Stereolab “The Free Design”By
Douglas Newman
Stereolab is really quite a remarkable group, or Groop as they refer to themselves. The band has amassed a robust and amazingly consistent catalog over the past sixteen years.  MC5 “I Want You Right Now”By
Douglas Newman
“Kick out the jams, motherfucker!” I remember hearing those first lines spewed from the second track of MC5’s masterpiece when I was 14 years old and thinking to myself that something great was going on in my head. I would never be the same again.  The Roches “Keep On Doing What You Do/Jerks On The Loose”By
Douglas Newman
Ah, the Roches. That’s a band I haven’t thought much about lately, but it’s a real treat to relive “Keep On Doing What You Do/Jerks On The Loose,” the remarkable last track from the trio’s 1982 album, Keep On Doing.  Boz Scaggs “I’ll Be Long Gone”By
Douglas Newman
It was a pleasant surprise when I made my daily visit to Damn Fine Day and caught a glimpse of the cover art for Boz Scaggs’ self-titled 1969 album. It brought back a flood of memories that I haven’t recalled in nearly two decades.  Rodney Crowell “Heartbroke”By
Douglas Newman
What’s most striking to me about Rodney Crowell is how much of a mover and shaker he was in the country music scene during the mid-to-late 1970s right on through the 1980s.  Yes “Everydays”By
Douglas Newman
Yes is one of those progressive rock bands I could never really stomach. But hearing an early Yes track (”Sweetness”) in Vincent Gallo’s quite enjoyable indie flick Buffalo 66 made me take a deeper look into the back catalog of perhaps the world’s most popular prog outfit.  Belly “Stay”By
Douglas Newman
Another blast from my college past, Belly was in constant rotation during my junior year at Brandeis, a small liberal arts college in the shadows of Boston, MA. Of course the early 1990’s was a great time to be young and musically hungry in Beantown, as it was a hotbed for burgeoning alt-rock bands of all stripes. |
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