The Melvins did not just influence Nirvana. On 23 January 1988 their drummer played on the demo that became Bleach.
Athens, Georgia had almost no music business in the late 1970s. A record shop, a bulb-lit club and a heatless church built the scene instead.
Spacemen 3 built The Perfect Prescription in Rugby as a trip with a beginning, a peak and a comedown, using almost nothing but repetition and tone.
Greg Sage meant the Wipers to be records without a road. The mystique never paid the bills, but the records outlived the plan.
Simon Nicol turns 76 today. He gave Fairport Convention its name, its rehearsal room and, in the end, its continuity, without ever wanting to be the lead guitarist.
A Gibson leaned on a bass amp in October 1964 gave the Beatles a feedback intro. Who owns the technique is still disputed.
Roland put a stereo chorus inside the JC-120 in 1975, then moved the same circuit into a pedal. How the Boss CE-1 turned an amp feature into the sound of a decade.
Big Star recorded Third at Ardent in 1974, saw it rejected, and watched it appear in 1978 in several versions. Here is why no definitive copy exists.
The Electric Eels played five shows in Cleveland, lost their last venue to a lawnmower, and became a legend through one Rough Trade single and decades of archival releases.
The Room That Was Built for Films Most legends about Hamburg’s Star-Club begin with the Beatles. Start instead with the building. Manfred Weissleder opened the club at Grosse Freiheit 39 on 13 April 1962, and the address was a former cinema. That detail explains almost everything about how the place worked. A cinema is a […
