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A San Francisco-based R&B music group originally formed by guitarist Larry Field as the “New Invaders” in the wake of the summertime of Love, Cool Blood had the main element elements of solid female vocalist, an excellent guitarist, and a robust horn section. After effective gigs at Golden Gate Recreation …

San Francisco-based blues-rock outfit Trip the Window blinds, which features the abilities of Chris Guthridge (electric guitar, lead vocals, harmonica), Costs Cramer (bass), and Nick Cramer (drums), have released two albums over the Klepto label. Both 2004’s eponymous debut and 2006’s Begin Running have gained the group vital acclaim, aswell …

The heavy, psychedelic acid rock of Iron Butterfly might seem dated for some today, however the group was among the first really difficult rock bands to get extensive radio airplay, and their best-known song, the 17-minute epic “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” established that even more extended compositions were viable entries in the air …

An British hard rock institution whose influence about heavy metal can’t be overstated, Dark Sabbath not merely pioneered the genre, they helped release the career of 1 of its most colourful and questionable characters in Ozzy Osbourne. The music group distilled the smoke cigarettes and strife of its commercial hometown …

A hard-hitting Swedish “doom blues” clothing, the seed products for Grand Magus were sewn when Janne (guitar/vocals), Fox (bass), and Iggy (drums) started playing collectively as Smack within their local Stockholm circa 1996. By 1999, fresh drummer Trisse experienced became a member of up and several well-received three-song demos confident …

This late-’60s Denver group is perhaps most obviously as the starting place for guitarist Tommy Bolin, who was simply still in his teens if they recorded their first album in 1969. A fairly regular slab of bluesy, weighty rock, it produced the very best 50. Apart from Bolin’s prolonged hard …

Robert Scott Weinrich, better known by his nickname, Wino, is among the leading figures within the America’s underground rock movement. Despite the fact that none from the important bands Wino offers fronted — the Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Soul Caravan, etc. — ever accomplished mainstream success, they’re collectively viewed as essential …

Mixing music improvisation and jam music group tendencies with traces of psychedelic hard rock and roll, Major Stars had been shaped in the past due ’90s by many veterans from the Boston scene. Vocalist/guitarist Wayne Rogers, guitarist Kate Biggar (also called Kate Town), bassist Tom Leonard, and drummer Dave Lynch …

Though typically overshadowed by International Artists labelmates the 13th Floor Elevators, Bubble Puppy enjoyed arguably the best commercial success of all Tx psychedelic bands, scoring a high 20 pop hit with “Hot Smoke & Sasafrass.” The root base of the group rest within the Corpus Christi-based Poor Seed products, a …

Strawberry NOISY ALARMS occupies a peculiar market in the annals of ’60s rock and roll. Their name is really as popular to anyone who resided through the past due-’60s psychedelic period as that of nearly every group you might care to say, mostly from its sheer, foolish trippiness being a …