Cherry Red
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Music expert Bob Stanley’s specialty label Croydon Municipal has released three distinctive,. essential, and downright enjoyable collections documenting women singers of the 1950s and 1960s. Read more
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Cherry Red’s latest in their Original Albums Collection compiles the early work of their flagship band, the unique, unclassifiable Eyeless In Gaza. Read more
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Welsh psychobilly pioneers Demented Are Go have their formative years compiled into one crazy, essential box. Read more
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The flame of One Thousand Violins burned bright, but it burned out quickly. This collection captures the first two-year output of the Sheffield indie-pop group. Read more
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The author of one of the 1960s brightest, lushest hits offered up a solo album that was stark and dark and not much like the song that made her famous. Read more
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Another single bought solely for its cover, this one was picked up…somewhere…Austin, perhaps?…strictly on the basis of its cover, and, again, I was pleasantly surprised by its contents. “Veil Like Calm” is a wonderful, less-than-two minute summation of what makes Eyeless In Gaza so great: dark, introspective lyrics, a style that commits to absolutely no… Read more
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Imagine, if you will, a heady blend of funk, disco, jazz, and soul music that is then processed through a New Wave scrambler, and you come up with the basic formula for Blue Rondo a la Turk, a brief but exciting British group that formed in 1981. A notoriously frantic and powerful orchestra, they… Read more
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It’s easy to dismiss Charo as hokum, a camp act with little talent. Sure, she did a great job of cultivating that image of a ditsy blonde who barely knows the language, often delivering funny comments in her broken English, all while making sure to shake her body and yelling her catch-phrase “Cuchi-cuchi!” But behind… Read more
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One could look at the history of Ghost Dance as a cautionary tale, even as their fate proves to be somewhat typical. Formed in the mid-1980s from former members of Skeletal Family, Sisters of Mercy, and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, they signed to Chrysalis Records. Unfortunately, the relationship between band and label quickly started to… Read more
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