RPM Records
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Kenyan-based Matata was once hailed as “the best band from Africa,” and this two-disc collection highlights an excellent band that did indeed have great promise–and it also serves to show the dangers of compromising one’s art for commercial success. Read more
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This little Australian pop band didn’t last very long, but released a half dozen fine singles, and would be the formative years of a man whose later (equally brief) musical career seems light years from these humble (and excellent) beginnings. Read more
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This little Australian pop band didn’t last very long, but released a half dozen fine singles, and would be the formative years of a man whose later (equally brief) musical career seems light years from these humble (and excellent) beginnings. Read more
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Their international smash single “Everlasting Love” may have unfairly pigeonholed The Love Affair, but this exhaustive collection shows they had much more to offer. Read more
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Their international smash single “Everlasting Love” may have unfairly pigeonholed The Love Affair, but this exhaustive collection shows they had much more to offer. Read more
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The short-lived British R&B band Bo Street Runners’ complete recorded output is compiled, and is an enjoyable slice of mid-60s British R&B Read more
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The short-lived British R&B band Bo Street Runners’ complete recorded output is compiled, and is an enjoyable slice of mid-60s British R&B Read more
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This excellent compilation brings together one of the great lost Mod/British pop bands of the 1960s. Read more
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Uber-rare British jazz combo The Mike Cotton Sound’s sole album sees release, a superb time capsule of a rarely-heard yet brilliant, exciting combo. Read more
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The Fourmyula was a Beatles-inspired pop band from the tiny nation of New Zealand, and it’s easy to understand why they had a brief, fleeting taste of fame and success–they had excellent songwriting chops, and with their songs led by vocalist Carl Evenson, the band possessed a quality that was never hampered by the obscurity Read more
