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<title>Jimi Hendrix</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It seems as if no other musician has had more posthumous music released than the mighty Jimi Hendrix. But more amazing is the stratospheric, comet-like career of the man who, more than anyone before or since, revolutionized the way the electric guitar is played. Ask any middle-aged English blues and rock guitar player from Eric Clapton to Pete Townshend, and they will each individually claim that they were Jimi's best friend -- Hendrix was known for having that kind of ingratiating effect on people. His prodigious guitar playing, his soul-saturated, swaggering vocal style, and his brother-from-outer-space aura immediately seemed to hypnotize anyone within a five-mile radius. From 1966 to his death in 1970, he breathed life into his Stratocaster, squeezing a new sonic language from the fretboard that had never been played, let alone fathomed, by any guitarist before. With drummer Mitch Mitchell and bass player Noel Redding, his power trio, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, forged a new galactic style of psychedelic blues. Nearly thirty years after his untimely death, his music remains as popular, influential, and powerful as ever.]]></description>
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<title>Janis Joplin</title>
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<category>Blues &amp; Boogie Rock</category>
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<description><![CDATA[In one of her trademark tunes, "Piece of My Heart," Janis Joplin proclaimed, "I'm gonna show you, baby, that a woman can be tough," and she went on to prove it in her life, playing by men's rules and exercising her rather varied appetites -- musical and otherwise -- whenever the spirit moved her. Perhaps that allowed her to feel things that few white women would admit to, let alone express. <br><br> A fifth generation Texan, born in the deep water anchorage town of Port Arthur, Joplin always had one of her tiny high-heels firmly placed on the open road. A noisy and wildly talented harbinger of the burgeoning cultural revolution, she turned her back on small town life and hitchhiked to San Francisco with the equally atavistic impresario Chet Helms. With Helms' help, she hooked up with bluesy folk rock combo Big Brother and the Holding Company, sharpening their rather soft psychedelic edges and transforming the group into a firebrand outfit that would make a huge mark on the 1960s' musical landscape. <br><br> Joplin took her cues from the blues greats, grafting the sensual rhythms of Bessie Smith and the defiance of Willie Mae Thornton to a pulsating rock beat. The world noticed what the wild-haired chanteuse was up to when Big Brother performed at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival, bringing her rare and bombastic talent to that infamous stage and holding her own with Jimi Hendrix and The Who. Big Brother's second album, 1968's <I>Cheap Thrills</I>, found Joplin helping to midwife a new mode of musical expression for "chick" singers. Being a refined looker who could actually carry a tune (think Mary Hopkin, Marianne Faithfull) was no longer enough once Janis started belting with authority from her heart and deepest soul. <br><br> Unfortunately, her massive talent did not bring the peace and self-acceptance she craved. She used to bemoan her sense of isolation, remarking sadly, "Every night I make love to 25,000, but I go home alone." Ironically, she was adored by millions but had apparently lost her capacity to recognize real love when it was offered. She tried to fill the void with drugs and alcohol, and ultimately died of a heroin overdose on October 4, 1970. She looms as large in death as she did in life, encouraging subsequent generations to feel without holding back. Joplin left behind a small but tremendous legacy, including two albums with Big Brother, and two solo albums (<I>I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Bules Again, Mama!</I>, recorded with the Kozmic Blues Band, and <I>Pearl</I>, with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, which came out a month after her death).
- Jaan Uhelszki]]></description>
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<title>Jefferson Airplane</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jefferson Airplane's Psychedelic pop and Acid Rock songs helped put San Francisco on the musical map of the 1960s. The band was formed in 1965 with Signe Anderson as lead vocalist. She was soon replaced by Grace Slick of the Great Society and the new, improved Jefferson Airplane landed on a hit with "Somebody To Love" from their timely 1967 album, <i>Surrealistic Pillow</i> (the same lp that hit with the alleged druggie anthem "White Rabbit"). Loaded with swirling guitars and lysergic solos, this album provided part of the soundtrack to San Francisco's Summer of Love. The Jefferson Airplane was founded by Marty Balin, who left the band in 1971. Besides Anderson and Balin, many other notable musicians traveled on the Jefferson Airplane through a revolving door that once welcomed Alexander "Skip" Spence of Moby Grape as well as David Freiberg of the Quicksilver Messenger Service. Following a myriad of lineup changes, the band went through some name changes as well. Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship and then Starship. Jefferson Starship's most celebrated appearance came in the form of a </i>Star Wars</i> made-for-television musical special that was aired shortly after the film's box office success. Hosted by Bea Arthur, the one-hour show featured much of the <i>Star Wars</i> cast as well as a now-endearing musical performance by Jefferson Starship. The band later had a hit in the '80s as Starship with "We Built This City," a MOR/AOR pop hit built with synthesizers, sound bites and the shelf-life of a soft-banana.]]></description>
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<title>Cream</title>
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<category>Blues &amp; Boogie Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cream is the prototypical acid rock band, formed in the late 1960s by guitar god and bored Yardbird Eric Clapton as an outlet for his growing interest in the notions of a heavier and louder take on American blues. Although bands like Blue Cheer, Deep Purple and Iron Butterfly appear to have had more of an influence on hard rock and metal than Cream, the importance of the band cannot be understated. For while Blue Cheer were playing so loud that dogs were exploding left and right at their shows and Iron Butterfly delivered what was arguably the first ill-conceived, unbearable drum solo that really mattered, they did these things before relatively small audiences, while Cream were a huge, nationally recognized band furthering the cause of loud rock music on an international stage. Much the way Jimi Hendrix's music had done before them, Cream's drug-addled, parent-horrifying records poured into suburban households all over America and England, changing the face of teenage rebellion forever. Cream's records aren't exactly the greatest rock music ever recorded, but in their best moments -- during lurching, blown-out covers of such blues standards as "Spoonful" and the blistering "Steppin' Out," for example -- the band genuinely changes the way blues can sound without losing touch with the form's roots. Cream also played with psychedelia and even pop music, with varying results.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Traffic</title>
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<category>Classic Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Stevie Winwood earned a reputation as a teenage wunderkind by virtue of his gutsy performances as frontman of the Spencer Davis Group on smashes like "Gimme Some Lovin'," "I'm a Man" and "Keep on Running." Soon, though, his blue-eyed soul tendencies would be channeled and chopped into the jazzier feel of a new band, Traffic. Along with guitarist Dave Mason, reed wizard Chris Wood and drummer Jim Capaldi, Winwood quickly announced the new direction with a fabulous psychedelic-pop single, "Paper Sun." Two more Top 10 U.K. hits followed with "Hole in My Shoe" and "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush." Traffic were a key act in establishing rock and reggae standard-bearer Island Records as a major force, particularly after the release of their first album, <I>Mr. Fantasy</I>, in the U.S. <br> <br> A self-titled disc followed in 1968, offering noteworthy tracks like Mason's instant standard "Feelin' Alright" and "Forty Thousand Headmen." Mason had already taken time away from the band and no doubt led to its collapse when Winwood split to join Eric Clapton in the short-lived Blind Faith in 1969. The latter's one album sold well, but was widely perceived as a disappointment, and later a punchline, whenever the dubious term "super group" was mentioned. Clapton moved on to Derek and the Dominos and a solo career, and Winwood reconstituted Traffic for their most open-ended music yet: <I>John Barleycorn Must Die.</I> Bassist Ric Grech, former Dominos drummer Jim Gordon and percussionist Reebop Kwaku Baah signed on; Mason returned for 1971's live jaunt, <I>Welcome to the Canteen.</I> By now Traffic were one of the major draws on the burgeoning rock circuit in America, and their next release, <I>The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys,</I> was their most popular album here yet. The languid title track and the starker "Rock and Roll Stew" were airplay favorites for the rest of the decade. Success continued with <I>Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory;</I> another live recording, <I>On the Road;</I> and <I>When the Eagle Flies.</I> <I>Eagle,</I> though a hit, precipitated another Traffic split. Winwood remained silent until a 1977 self-titled solo debut, which did little business. His <I>Arc of a Diver</I> was a huge seller in 1981, though, and marked the beginning of a long run of popular favorites that also included <I>Back in the High Life</I> and <I>Roll With It.</I> <br> <br> Winwood and drummer Capaldi reconvened once again under the Traffic brand for a 1994 album, the listless <I>Far From Home,</I> and a tour. Traffic were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. Capaldi passed away on January 28, 2005, from stomach cancer.
- Jaan Uhelszki]]></description>
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<title>Steppenwolf</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:48:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The brainchild of John Kay, Steppenwolf were a heavy, bluesy act that will live on eternally in the annals of music for being the band behind "Born to be Wild." Founder Kay is credited for the invention of the term "heavy metal" thanks to that song's lyric about "heavy metal thunder." If that weren't enough prestige, Kay may have been the first rock star to wear his sunglasses at night (predating Corey Hart by some twenty years). Taking their name from the Herman Hesse story of the conflict between mind and body, Steppenwolf had a short-lived energetic career that merited two bona fide hits (the other being "Magic Carpet Ride") before lapsing into lightweight politics and partial-lineup "reunion" shows.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Wolfmother</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sydney's Wolfmother will teleport you back to the pre-metal rock days of the late-'60s and early-'70s. Singer/guitarist Andrew Stockdale's magazine-friendly good looks may recall a young Noel Redding (the English afro'd bass player from the Jimi Hendrix Experience), but his raucous, riff-heavy guitar playing echoes amp-blasting tones from both Leigh Stephens (Blue Cheer) and Vanilla Fudge's Vince Martell. However impressive his six-string skills are, it's Stockdale's powerful and melodic wail that drives Wolfmother. The chemistry between Stockdale, drummer Myles Heskett and bassist/keyboardist Chris Ross was apparent on Wolfmother's 2006 self-titled debut. But it didn't last; international success, a Grammy (for Best Hard Rock Performance) and even a request from Led Zeppelin to appear as guests for their U.K. Music Hall of Fame induction led to tension and eventually the departure of Heskett and Ross, who cited "irreconcilable differences." Stockdale kept the name and recruited guitarist Aidan Nemeth, bassist/keyboardist Ian Peres and drummer Dave Atkins to go on as Wolfmother. The new quartet released <i>Cosmic Egg</i> in late 2009.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Dengue Fever</title>
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<category>World Pop</category>
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<description><![CDATA[There really isn't a name for what Dengue Fever is doing yet. Maybe "psychedelic ethno-rock," or "retro global pop" -- some special cocktail of words is needed to describe a sound that plucks from the flotsam and jetsam of global culture and crafts the freshest sound from the oddest materials: vintage organ, funk beats, surf and psychedelic rock. Then add in the ethereal howl of Bollywood singers, and a Cambodian lead singer singing in Khmer. Based in LA., members of Dengue Fever (who've played with everyone from Dieselhead to Beck) stumbled on some Cambodian rock from the 1960s and '70s and were so inspired they decided to start a tribute band, but they faced one stumbling block: they needed a singer. Singer Chhom Nimol had achieved pop stardom in Cambodia and was working the lucrative wedding circuit in Los Angeles when she auditioned. The fit was immediate and obvious, and they set down to recording the first CD. Their first release consisted mainly of faithful covers of what, to Nimol, was essentially classic (Cambodian) rock. Nimol proved to be the group's secret weapon: her voice defies gravity, floating up into the heady climes of Asian pop (where most western singers fear to tread) and redefining pop as we know it. Their second release, 2005's <I>Escape From Dragon House</I>, saw the group taking more license with their sound, straying into original territory while still staying true to their inspiration. The group somehow catches the spirit of the early rock revolution, the time when youth culture blossomed into its first innocently libidinous expression and people around the world took up instruments in an attempt to duplicate a sound that had migrated from Africa and matured on a Southern Californian beach.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Quicksilver Messenger Service</title>
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<category>Psychedelic</category>
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<description><![CDATA[They story of Quicksilver Messenger Service, one of Haight-Ashbury's original psychedelic bands, is a muddled one to say the absolute least. At first Q.M.S. were to be the vehicle for proto-hippie troubadour and guru-like character Dino Valenti. But getting busted for marijuana in 1966 resulted in hard time. With their leader temporarily out of the picture, Quicksilver ditched folk-rock for LSD-inspired jamming that showcased guitarists John Cipollina and Gary Duncan. The duo exerted a considerable influence not only on the Allman Brothers' Duane and Dickey Betts, but also on any '70s hard-rock band boasting two ferocious leads. To hear a band every bit as groovy and "out there" as early Dead and Jefferson Airplane, simply crank Quicksilver's masterpiece <i>Happy Trails</i>, a sprawling and often orgiastic rebirth of the Bo Diddley groove. In 1970 Valenti returned to the fold, forcing the group to revert back to its original -- if inferior --sound. This led to a fracture after just two albums. Since the mid-'70s Quicksilver have gone through too many personnel changes, breakups and reunions to count. Usually, the only original member is the great and underappreciated Gary Duncan.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>Big Brother and the Holding Company</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:56:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Although the late Janis Joplin made Big Brother and the Holding Company famous, her short stint in the band was both a blessing and a curse. Before Joplin, nobody really cared too much for the San Francisco acid rock band, and following her departure, nobody really cared too much for the San Francisco acid rock band (which continues to play in small clubs with a lead singer who likes to impersonate Joplin's gritty growl). But in their defense, Big Brother and the Holding Company could hold their own. They hit the Haight-Ashbury music scene with a loosey-goosey, psychedelic take on blues-rock. Early recordings reveal the band's ability to teeter back musically, making listeners feel like they're falling into a chair before suddenly snapping up when the band hits the groove harder than at the start. Truth be told, Big Brother weren't too excited about adding Joplin as their frontwoman, but San Francisco music promoter Chet Helms made a good case for it, and Joplin ended up kick-starting their career in a way they couldn't achieve on their own. Bob Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman, picked up their contract, and in 1968 they released <I>Cheap Thrills</I> for Columbia Records. Featuring underground comic book hero Robert Crumb's artwork on the sleeve, it became an instant classic. Joplin left the band to go solo at the end of '68, and they never enjoyed anything resembling the No. 1 chart success of <I>Cheap Thrills</I>.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Vanilla Fudge</title>
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<category>Psychedelic</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the 1960s, Vanilla Fudge took pop songs that were in rotation on the radio, slowed down the tempo and added elements of both psychedelia and what would
later be termed heavy metal. The best example of this is their
floating, ultra heavy take on the Supremes' song "You Keep Me Hangin' On."
Play that one real loud and try not to put on a dramatic arm-waving lip-synch
show. It's impossible. The band was formed on Long Island in 1965 but
disbanded in 1970, after constant touring with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin and several hit singles under their belt. Bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice played with Jeff Beck for a time, releasing the mega-selling <i>Beck, Bogert and Appice</i> record in 1973. The pair then went on to form the hard-boogeying Cactus.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Iron Butterfly</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Iron Butterfly will forever be remembered as the first heavy metal band.
Their moment of glory is the song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," a 17-minute epic
that features a sinister guitar riff doubled on keyboards, bearded, manly
vocals and a drum solo that at times seems longer than the actual song
itself. The ultimate 1960s acid rock song, it is difficult today to
understand what an impact such music could have had on young listeners to
whom the idea of heavy metal did not even exist. The rest of Iron
Butterfly's catalog is littered with awful Flower Child psyche-pop and
lame biker rock, but there are a few moments ("Iron Butterfly Theme,"
"Possession") where it becomes clear the band had an effect on the Grateful
Dead as well as the Doors, to name just two. As for true metal bands, Deep
Purple is the next link the chain as far as that goes, lifting the idea of
guitar and keyboards played on top of one another directly from Iron
Butterfly.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>13th Floor Elevators</title>
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<category>Psychedelic</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:04:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Long considered a seminal band of the psychedelic era, 13th Floor Elevators, led by nutjob visionary Roky Erickson, are one of the very few groups able to rival the Velvet Underground in terms of influence, specifically the far-ranging breadth and longevity of that influence. Seemingly everyone from the Stooges to ZZ Top to Television to garage-rock depressives Cheater Slicks to modern acts like Sunburned Hand of the Man were inspired by the Elevators' first album, <i>The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators</i>, released in 1967. Subverting surf-guitar riffs with a no dollar recording, an avalanche of reverb, Erickson's acid-charred lyrics and a fluttering "electric jug" sound that pervades the album, <i>Psychedelic Sounds</i> remains a landmark of garage rock, psychedelia and punk-rock aesthetics. A trio of albums followed, but subsequent legal problems and constant police harassment finally submarined the band by 1969, when Erickson entered a psychiatric hospital to avoid a prison term for drug charges. Following his release, Erickson went on to a long and convoluted solo career.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Blue Cheer</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[At one time, Blue Cheer was hyped as the loudest rock band on the planet. Rampant personnel changes stunted their progress but the band's first three albums remain essential listening for devotees of all music that is heavy. Basically inventing acid rock (and heavy metal, too) with their blistering rape of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" in 1968, these NorCal kids pretty much flattened all comers for the crown of world's heaviest band at the time. Their debut album, <I>Vincebus Eruptum</I> is marked by big, fat, revved-up blues riffs with dueling lead guitar solos that occupy totally separate spots in either speaker, and wholly over-the-top drum rolls that do the same thing. Other elements include unhealthy amounts of fuzz, dirty hippie "yeahs" at just the right moments, and a serious biker rock/LSD vibe. The name of the band even refers to a brand of the drug. <I>Vincebus Eruptum</I> makes Cream and Iron Butterfly and any other late '60s pre-metal band sound like Herman's Hermits by comparison. The original lineup (a trio) recorded the sprawling, more psychedelic <I>Outsideinside</I> before shrieky guitarist Leigh Stephens left and was replaced by loud guitar prophet Randy Holden, who offered three insanely heavy cuts to the group's third album <I>New! Improved! Blue Cheer</I>. By the time the group recorded a self-titled fourth album, bassist/singer Dickie Peterson was the only remaining original member. Recordings from this period are best collected on <I>Good Times Are So Hard To Find: The History of Blue Cheer</I>.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Country Joe &amp; The Fish</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:33:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Much of Country Joe and the Fish's fame can be traced back to the 1970 documentary <i>Woodstock</i>. In theaters around the planet, heads and squares alike witnessed the band lead a sprawling pit of mud-caked rebels, rowdies and freaks through one of the most profane and satirical anti-war protest songs of all time: <i>And it's 1-2-3 what are we fighting for?/ Don't ask me -- I don't give a damn/ Next stop is VietnamÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ¦</i> If you can peel back all the Summer of Love cliches, it's one of <i>the</i> classic moments in the history of American youth culture. At the same time, that all-too-brief moment forever tagged Country Joe (who once served in the Navy) as nothing more than a hippie novelty, something to be parodied and mocked. That's a shame, really. Not only was Country Joe McDonald an inventive songwriter, but the Fish were one of the psychedelic era's more complex outfits, exploring everything from dreamy folk-pop to Zappa-like freakery to jug-band shenanigans a la Jim Kweskin. The Fish could also jam (although no one would mistake them for the Grateful Dead or Quicksilver Messenger Service). Unfortunately, the group failed to maintain a stable lineup and fell apart not long after Woodstock.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>Black Mountain</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:59:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This new generation of Canadian commune kids hang out with a group of like-minded artists and musicians in Vancouver called the Black Mountain Army. Just like their non-peacenik named collective, these youthful hippies aren't about gentle acoustic strumming like the commune denizens of yore, but have their guitars plugged in and turned way up. Black Mountain blend heavy rock roots with harmonic indie pop backed by a funk thump that fuses together to create an original brand of psychedelic stoner rock.
- Michele K-Tel]]></description>
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<title>Captain Beyond</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Moby Grape</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:53:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There are those who believe Moby Grape were the greatest of all the San Francisco acid-rock bands. Forming just after drummer Alexander "Skip" Spence left Jefferson Airplane in late '66, the Grape boasted three singer-songwriters: Jerry Miller, Bob Mosley and Spence (who ditched the skins for guitar). The band also possessed five-part harmonies and a triple-axe attack -- yeow. Unlike the Grateful Dead and their spacey improvisation, Moby Grape played tight, intricately crafted rock with manic energy. It's no understatement to hail the group's 1967 debut as the ancestral link between psychedelia, country rock, glam, power pop and punk. Unfortunately, those open-minded hippies weren't open enough to embrace such an innovative band, and the record flopped after a huge (some say misguided) promotional push from Columbia Records. Spence, a child of the times whose behavior grew increasingly erratic, surrendered full-time membership halfway through the making of the band's next record, a wildly bizarre opus titled <i>Wow!</i> Although fame never came, Moby Grape released a few more quality LPs, including the excellent <i>Truly Fine Citizen</i>, before slipping into semi-retirement in the mid-'70s.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>Oneida</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the brainiest and most prolific NYC bands of the '00s began as a duo and has done time as a four-piece. But at heart they're a power trio, given to three-CD sets and conceptual trilogies, to freak-folk and slow metal and Krautrock and dub reggae, to plunking the same note over and over for a quarter-hour or more until you realize they've been gradually shifting all along. On early albums like 1999's <I>Enemy Hogs</I>, they come off as a kind of stoner-rock unit, but on 2000's definitive half-hour-plus <I>Steel Rod</I> EP, they squeeze Link Wray barbed-wire twang and a choogling Creedence cover into weird nerd-rock that balances the sludge with science-lab keyboards after the manner of Devo or Pere Ubu. "Power Animals," on 2000's <I>Come on Everybody Let's Rock</I>, was about a deadlocked presidential election -- not Bush and Gore, but Tilden and Hayes in 1876. On 2002's double disc, <I>Each One Teach One</I>, they carried water-torture minimalism to its breaking point, and since then -- averaging more or less an album a year -- they've gotten both daintier and dronier, picking up indie fans much younger than themselves, then regularly finding ways to dumbfound them.
- Chuck Eddy]]></description>
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<title>Brant Bjork</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:04:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Solo outing by Kyuss and Fu Manchu member highlights his seemingly endless collection of sex-driven guitar hooks. Great music for go-go dancers... especially really stoned go-go dancers.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>The Great Society</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:14:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The giants of the Haight-Ashbury scene were Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. But there were other pioneers, important ones, including the Charlatans, Mystery Trend and the Great Society. Rock history has turned that last band into a perennial footnote -- that is, it was singer Grace Slick's group before she jumped ship to the Airplane. Unfortunately, this overlooks just how innovative the Great Society really were. Inspired by the Yardbirds' use of mod fuzz and Middle Eastern sounds, the group explored raw guitar distortion, metronomic grooves and droning vocals and ended up sounding unlike anything else in 1965 and '66. The only other bands comparable were the Velvet Underground, Love and the Doors -- how's that for company? Although Slick played a major role in the Great Society's sound, it's her then brother-in-law Darby (he actually wrote the hippie anthem "Somebody to Love") who should have received the bulk of the credit. The guy's searing axework and manipulation of feedback laid the groundwork for acid-rock guitar. Too bad the band, which was about to sign to Columbia Records, couldn't weather Slick's departure in late '66. The Great Society folded soon thereafter.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>Atomic Bitchwax</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 09:01:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Three-piece side project of Monster Magnet guitarist Ed Mundell. His powerful command of the heavy, psychedelic-steeped Stoner Rock vocabulary shines forth in theses songs. From the inescapable "tractor beam" grooves of early Grand Funk to the awe-inducing monoliths of sound erected by Kyuss, Mundell and his crew are right at home wherever the sonics are loud and heavy.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>All Saved Freak Band</title>
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<category>Christian Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 9 May 2009 09:55:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Danava</title>
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<category>Hard Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:03:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Amboy Dukes</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:04:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Albatross</title>
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<category>Blues &amp; Boogie Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:39:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dirty rock 'n' roll driven by rich guitar harmonies and a heavy dose of gritty blues. Albatross' sound is culled from a variety of Classic Rock influences.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Earthless</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:08:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sunny San Diego's Earthless are a heavy-sounding power trio specializing in seemingly endless jams of psychedelic space rock that wind up, unravel and propel sonic waves of acid-rock blasts into the cosmos. Guitar player Isaiah Mitchell used to play for Nebula, Drunk Horse and a diverse amalgam of many other West Coast bands. Bassist Mike Eginton cut his teeth with Man's Ruin recording artists Electric Nazarene, and ham-fisted drum lord Mario Rubalcaba hit skins with various bands such as the Black Heart Procession, Rocket from the Crypt, Clikatat Ikatowi and Hot Snakes (to name a few). Eginton and Rubalcaba own and operate their own record store in San Diego named Thirsty Moon, specializing in obscure and hard-to-find vinyl rooted in '60s garage rock, Krautrock, folk, prog and heavy Japanese psychedelic bands. The three musicians actually formed after bonding on Japanese hard-rock records by artists such as Flower Travelin' Band and heavy '60s and '70s rock bands such as the Groundhogs and Hawkwind. Earthless' live shows are often one long face-melting song, but they have been known to break up their set into two or sometimes three long songs.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>George Elliott</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Rainbow</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:51:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Tontons</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:25:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Parchman Farm</title>
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<category>Hard Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Formed in San Francisco in the early 2000s, but taking their cue from late
'60s and early '70s heavy rock groups (a la Blue Cheer and Leaf Hound),
Parchman Farm plays guitar-centric hard rock with elements of psychedelia
emerging in unexpected places. Any fan of the bluesier days of hard rock,
after all the annoying British blues crapola but before AOR was born, will
want to check them out. (Note: a member of this band is an employee of
RealNetworks.)
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Zephyr</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:15:02 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Ultimate Spinach</title>
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<category>Psychedelic</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:01:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Flower Travellin' Band</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:13:23 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>White Witch</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:37:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Bulemics</title>
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<category>Old School Punk</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:39:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[On June 4, 1990, Stiv Bators, former singer for the Dead Boys, died -- surprising no one. It sounds as if his ghost has returned, however, entering the body of the lead vocalist for Bulemics. They play with a studied looseness, a deceptive messiness which is actually Nugent-esque in agility. It's hard to listen without imagining the band rolling around on stage, lost in power chords and seizures of ecstasy.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Fatso Jetson</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:08:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What happens when you mix Led Zeppelin's riff-heavy personality with Polvo's woozy, haunting guitars? Fatso Jetson. Warm, Garage-style production does the rest.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>Brutal Juice</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A sonic mess of hard Punk with experimental guitar textures over stadium-sized, simplistic beats. Perhaps they put it best themselves: "Thinking man's stiff cocktail of prog-rock and hard-core spilled down the front of his pants."
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>The Frost</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:49:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 9 Nov 2008 21:11:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Das Damen</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:57:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Creature</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:15:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Sky Sunlight Saxon (Of The Seeds)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:49 -0700</pubDate>
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