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Gaskin, End Of The World/No Wa…
More struggler rock from the early New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Gaski… more »
Aorta, Aorta
The cracked concept/opera about main veins and heart attacks that the alb… more »
Grinderswitch, Honest to Goodn…
Started by a crew dog for the Allman Brothers, Grinderswitch were signed … more »
Destroy All Monsters, Bored…
The Stooges and the MC5 left such a bad taste in major label mouths that … more »
Ted Nugent’s Amboy Dukes…
Here Nugent's "kill it and grill it" sonic persona is fully… more »
The Men Of Porn, Experiments i…
On an earlier album, Men of Porn had a tune called "Smoking Pot on a… more »
Cathedral, The Ethereal Mirror…
Cathedral combines doom grind, early '70s obscurity — think Ban… more »
Dixie Witch, Into The Sun…
Twenty years ago, Dixie Witch might have had success in the arenas. Into … more »
Robin Trower, This Was Now …
The first disc in this set, a 1974 recording of the Robin Trower Band, is… more »
Staggering Statistics, Stagger…
This Staggering Statistics show was recorded live at Maxwell's on 06/… more »
Sons of the Never Wrong, Sons …
This Sons of the Never Wrong show was recorded live at Schubas on 06/17/0… more »
The Building Press, The Buildi…
This The Building Press show was recorded live at Schubas on 06/17/05. Th… more »
Goatsnake, Trampled Under Hoof…
Trampled Under Hoof puts together the best Goatsnake performances in the … more »
Cathedral, Hopkins (The Witchf…
Hopkins (Witchfinder General) gets off to a fast start with its title tra… more »
Scorpions, Eye II Eye
Eye II Eye was the Scorpions '1999 attempt at being innovative in a t… more »
Acid King, Busse Woods…
Laurie S., the axe-wrangler and singer for Acid King, does it really slow… more »
Gaskin, End Of The World/No Wa…
More struggler rock from the early New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Gaski… more »
Deep Purple, Shades of Deep Pu…
Recorded in 1968 when Deep Purple hadn't quite invented their tradema… more »
Stoner Rock
Cochlea-shattering dB levels, s-l-o-w guitar riffs, bandmembers who look … more »
Sludge in the 70s
In the mid '80s I hosted a weekly college radio show called "Slu… more »
Jimmy Page, No Introduction Ne…
The last six tunes on No Introduction Necessary come from 1970's Lord… more »
Killing Floor, Rock The Blues…
Knocking it out in the clubs with other Brit bands all wishing to get a p… more »