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FAVOURITE POP / ROCK / SOUL / COUNTRY COMPILATIONS – ’70S/ ’80S

TOP FAVORITE ALBUMS
TOP POP / ROCK / SOUL / COUNTRY COMPILATIONS
THE SEVENTIES AND EIGHTIES
 
  
 1. BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
      Legend
 
 2. AL GREEN
       Greatest Hits
 
 3. HAWKWIND
       25 Years On
 
 4. NICK DRAKE
       Fruit Tree
 
 5. POCO
       Very Best Of
 
 6. RODNEY CROWELL
       Collection
 
 7. DUANE ALLMAN
        An Anthology Volume 2
 
 8. STEELEYE SPAN
       Original Masters – Story
 
 9. ELTON JOHN
       Greatest Hits
 
10. GARY STEWART
        Gary’s Greatest
 
11. HANK WILLIAMS, JR.
       Greatest Hits
 
12. JACKSON 5
        Anthology
 
13. WIZZARD …

TOP FAVOURITE REGGAE – THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES

TOP FAVORITE ALBUMS
TOP FAVOURITE REGGAE – THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES
 
  
 1. TROJAN RECORDS
      Creation Rockers Volume 1 – 6
 
 2. COUNT OSSIE & THE MYSTIC REVELATIONS OF RASTAFARI
       Grounation
 
 3. PRINCE BUSTER
       Fabulous Greatest Hits
 
 4. TOOTS & THE MAYTALS
       Funky Kingston
 
 5. SKATALITES
       Foundation Ska
 
 6. DENNIS BROWN
       Visions
 
 7. BOB MARLEY
       Catch A Fire
 
 8. CONGOS
       Heart Of The Congo
 
 9. DR. ALIMANTADO
       Best Dressed Chicken In Town
 
10. JOE HIGGS
        Life Of Contradiction
 
11. BUNNY WAILER
       Blackheart Man
 
12. …

DEERHOOF’S DECEPTIVELY COMPLEX ‘MILK MAN’

Interviews

FOREWORD: Deeerhoof has managed to spread out its semi-avant experiments over several prodigious  albums. Though co-guitarist Chris Cohen left to concentrate on his own band, The Curtains, whose ’07 release, Calamity, collected an eclectic array of proggish psych abstractions, Deerhoof survived as a threesome. ’05s Runners Four and ’07s Friend Opportunity proved to be just as pertinently irresistible as the bands’ predeccesors. I spoke to Cohen in ’04 to promote Milk Man. This article originally appeared in Aquarian …

SLITS PIONEER ARI UP REVIVED AS ‘TRAPPED ANIMAL’

Interviews,

FOREWORD: Innovative German-born Brit punk, Ari Up, sadly died just months after our interview on October 20, 2010. She suffered from an undisclosed illness and is survived by three sons, her mother, and stepfather (legendary Sex Pistols guitarist Johnny Lydon).  RIP sweet angel.

 

Trailblazing ‘70s punk combo, the Slits, paid the cost to be the most revolutionary female band in a male-dominated subculture. Having the innate ability to dress up artless guitar debris with minimalist dub-reggae rhythms, the innovative lasses …

OS MUTANTES RETURN FULL FORCE ON ‘HAIH OR AMORTECEDOR’

Interviews

OS MUTANTESAdmirable anti-fascist South American hippie, Sergio Dias, gained international acclaim fronting Os Mutantes, rebellious bossa nova-based folk surrealists whose ceremonial Beatles-influenced Tropicalia clashed against politically-empowered authoritarian traditionalists during Brazil’s turbulent late ‘60s uprising. The Sao Paola-raised Dias, alongside percussionist-brother, Arnaldo Baptista, and female singing counterpart, Rita Lee Jones, helped devise an enduring musical style rooted in their country’s cultural heritage and inspired by contemporary absurdist pop.

Credited with being unintentional innovators of cut-n-paste technology, a sample-based technique utilizing electronic affects …

JEMINA PEARL HOOKS UP WITH FELLOW PET ON “BREAK IT UP”

Interviews,

JEMINA PEARLRocking all over America since age seventeen, contentious bad-ass punk diva, Jemina Pearl, hit the ground running in the now-defunct Be Your Own Pet before hijacking their drummer to co-compose a few tunes as lead guitarist in a solo venture she only hoped would satisfy loyal minions. The oldest daughter of churchgoing Jesus-worshipping hippies whose father played in a local rock and roll band, Pearl’s cutesy snot-nosed tomboy image and volatile onstage disposition proceed her.

Drawing listeners in with prudently …

AMNESIA BREWERY

United States Brewpubs

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PORTLAND, OREGON

In Portland’s historic northwest Mississippi District within walking distance to Widmer Brauhaus, AMNESIA BREWERY occupies a freestanding converted warehouse with old cement floors, exposed pipes, and covered side deck (with picnic benches). Its aluminum-sided green-walled interior had tickers, posters, and pictures strewn about.

The atmosphere was laid-back this early December ’09 afternoon and brewer Kevin King’s delectable brews were tried alongside a meaty burger (smoked sausages are also available).

As I entered Amnesia, famed Rogue brewer, John Maier, …

PORTLAND HOLIDAY ALE FEST ’09

Event

 

PORTLAND’S HOLIDAY ALE FESTIVAL ’09 EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS

By John Fortunato

PORTLAND, OREGON

Featuring vintage versions of so-called Big Beers and boasting the health-conscious slogan, ‘beer is a source of B complex vitamins,’ Portland’s annual Holiday Ale Festival proved to be a fantastic way for a seasoned Jersey swigger to spend a few cold early December days. Held December 2nd to 6th at Pioneer Court House Square in the heart of town, the winter fest (organized by Preston …

ENGINE HOUSE NO. 9 BREWERY

United States Brewpubs

E9 Firehouse & GastropubEngine House No. 9
TACOMA, WASHINGTON

After leaving Puget Sound-sited Harmon Pub, took the two-mile journey up the hill to former fire station, ENGINE HOUSE NO. 9 BREWERY & RESTAURANT. A historic Tacoma landmark visited December ’09, brewer Shane Johns keeps patrons comin’ with his healthy selection of barleywines, Belgian-inspired brews, and archetypal American ales.

A red-black courtyard with chairs and tables fronts the red-bricked antique wood-furnished restaurant (with archaic garage doors next to side entrance). Behind the dining area lies the crown jewel, …

KYP MALONE’S RAIN MACHINE TRANQUILIZES TV ON THE RADIO

Interviews,
RAIN MACHINE 2Though he’s known for spreading surrealist sociopolitical surreptitiousness in Brooklyn’s praiseworthy TV On The Radio, bespectacled wooly-bearded natty-haired singer-guitarist, Kyp Malone, strove to delve deeper, mining tearful expressions of the heart under the stormy nom de plume, Rain Machine. But it took the urging, benevolence, and planning of respected producer, Ian Brennan, to get Malone’s solo project as Rain Machine off the ground instead of staying on the backburner forever.

 

As a youngster, Malone studied violin and viola, developing …

FLUSH THE INDUSTRY

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For too many years brain-dead executives ruled the now nearly defunct major record labels. I’m not talking about publicists and artist relation staffs, just the misguided hacks at the top of the shit heap from punk’s 1977 heyday ‘til now. These stuck-up money-grabbing twerps were the ones who offered secretarial staff’s health insurance but were too cheap to provide it for their own artists – the people responsible for making them money. And what’s now ironic is how the corporate …

CHELSEA BREWING 4TH CASK ALE FESTIVAL

United States Brewpubs
CHELSEA BREWING HOSTS LARGEST MANHATTAN CASK ALE FEST – AGAIN!

By John Fortunato

Conveniently located along Manhattan’s West Side waterfront at Pier 59, spacious Chelsea Brewing Company kept ‘real ale’ drinkers satisfied with forty-one cask-conditioned beers from twenty-two American (and one Scottish) breweries at its fourth Cask Ale Festival held October 9th through 11th. Since early ’08, Chelsea’s highly successful spring-fall festivals have given respect to ‘old-styled’ unfiltered hand-pumped ales conditioned in firkin tanks for less carbonated, …