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In the wake from the Rickenbacker revolution started by R.E.M., Soaring Color created in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1984 when bassist Hector Penalosa, from your Southern California cult music group the Zeros, installed with guitarist Dale Duncan from your SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA underground band Like Circus and guitarist …

A power pop music group from Spain, Protones debuted using the release of the EP mounted on the 1st problem of a fanzine called Rock Indiana, accompanied by their 1st recording, Cartunes. After issuing Nil to say in 1996, the Plimsouls’ Paul Collins teamed up using the music group, producing …

An alter ego of indie rock veterans Yo La Tengo, the Condo Fucks allegedly hailed from New London, CT, and featured drummer Georgia Condo (aka Georgia Hubley), guitarist Kid Condo (aka Ira Kaplan), and bassist James McNew. In 2008, the music group played among the last displays at Brooklyn’s Magnetic …

Mungo Jerry are among rock’s great one-hit successes. Beyond Britain, they’re known for specifically one tune, but that tune, “During the warm months,” is certainly a seasonal anthem known by listeners who weren’t also born when it had been released. Mungo Jerry was a good blues outfit aswell — actually, …

Dressed in set, brandishing heavy guitars, and exhibiting an unabashed fetish for British Invasion pop, the Smithereens had been an anomaly in the American college rock and roll scene from the past due ’80s. Lead vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Pat DiNizio stood out not merely with his unusual beatnik goatee, but also because …

Wilhelm was a significant person in two SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Area groupings, in two different years. In the 1960s, he was a guitarist and songwriter for the Charlatans, frequently identified as among the very first SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA psychedelic groupings, although these were even more appropriately referred …

Such power pop founders as the Raspberries and Big Star might have been woefully underappreciated throughout their preliminary run in the first ’70s, but by the finish from the decade, many of their offspring had used the style towards the higher reaches from the charts — including Inexpensive Trick, the …

Created in 1974, N.Con.C.’s Dictators had been among the finest & most influential proto-punk rings to walk the planet earth. Alternately reveling in and satirizing the wanton excesses of the rock & move way of life and lowbrow tradition (e.g., wrestling, Television, junk food), using their world-view described by bassist/keyboardist …

Providing a lively and tuneful fusion of rock and roll & move and vintage force pop informed with the British Invasion and garage area rock sounds from the mid-’60s, the bond were shaped in 2011 by two music devotees from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Geoff Palmer and Brad Marino, both of …

This NY City-based psychedelic/garage rock combo played a big role in the mostly underground ’60s revival through the 1980s. Led from the enigmatic Rudi Protrudi, the Fuzztones had been among the main “successes” (especially in European countries) from the revival that flourished in 1984 which also boasted the Chesterfield Kings, …