Frank Zappa’s Cheaper Than Cheep, plus Janis Ian, Christian Parker, Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed, and Big Love Car Wash Frank Zappa and his band, the Mothers of Invention, were riding high in June 1974. They’d just completed a 10th-anniversary tour and, only three months earlier, had released Apostrophe (’), their first and only Top 10 album. […]
Music Reviews: “New Guitars in Town” (a Power-Pop Anthology), plus Christian Parker, Ted Russell Kamp, Marcia Griffiths, and Willie Lindo As this column noted last year, “Power pop has always been a loosely defined genre—a big umbrella for upbeat, guitar-driven music that mostly harkened back to 1960s pop rock but that makes room for acts […]
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Earlier this year, England’s Grapefruit label issued Too Much Sun Will Burn, the second of two three-CD sets celebrating the British psychedelic sounds of 1967. The anthologies underscored just how adventurous that country’s rock and pop artists were back then, and now, from the same label, comes a companion volume to remind us that just […]
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