The Zombies are celebrating the 40th anniversary of Odessey and Oracle, and Ed Murray says the band’s new DVD is chock full of tasty lo-fi goodness.
Lo-Fi Mojo
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Ed Murray
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Turns out Indian Wars weren’t just a shameful chapter in our nation’s history — they’re also a kickass Canadian garage punk band, as attested in the latest Lo-Fi Mojo.
Ed Murray
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Rather than dive deep into a single band or song this week, I’m going to tie up a few loose ends and make mention of some lo-fi goodies I’ve been…
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Ed Murray is back with another chunk of lo-fi goodness, and this time, he’s cranking up some live recordings from Wayne Kramer and Johnny Thunders’ short-lived Gang War.
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In the short history of ’70s-era punk rock, and the longer, larger arc of rock music in general, the New York Dolls were the crucial link between the Rolling Stones,…
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Ed Murray’s back in the garage for another edition of Lo-Fi Mojo, and this time, he’s cranking up some early, pre-Clash recordings from Joe Strummer’s old band.
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Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, The Poets had a lot of things going for them in the mid-’60s: a unique sound, a cool look (high-necked jackets and ruffled fronted shirts Á¢€”…
Ed Murray
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The Nashville-based country-esque musical collective Lambchop isn’t exactly the first band that comes to mind when you think Á¢€Å“lo-fi.Á¢€ Quite the opposite, in fact, given their membership’s high body count,…
Mojo Flucke
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Sorry mates, don’t mean to confuse y’all. For the record, Ed Murray’s currently writing Lo-Fi Mojos, and this is the normal location for a refreshing, boozy Cold Shot of blues…
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Ed Murray is back with another edition of Lo-Fi Mojo, in which he travels through time to have an argument with himself about prog rock, hype, and the Vivian Girls.
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In this week’s edition of Lo-Fi Mojo, Ed Murray takes a look back at the Who’s early years — specifically, the brief time they spent as the High Numbers.
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From its inception, the band Cactus was always supposed to be a supergroup. The rhythm section of late-Á¢€Ëœ60s psychedelic sludge rockers Vanilla Fudge Á¢€” namely, bassist Tim Bogert and drummer…
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The original Lowell George-led Little Feat had a string of classic albums in the 1970s, from their self-titled debut on through 1978Á¢€â„¢s live Waiting For Columbus, their best seller. After…
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Like most listeners, the first time I heard the song Á¢€Å“Farmer JohnÁ¢€ was on the Neil Young & Crazy Horse return-to-form album Ragged Glory in 1987. It seemed almost tailor-made…
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Brooklyn-based trio Vivian Girls have lived a lifetime in blog years, going from virtual unknowns to hipster music blog celebrities to backlash victims in about 14 months. But regardless of…
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I first heard about Black Pearl from Lester Bangs. Not first-hand, of course. But from his 1971 Creem magazine essay Á¢€Å“Of Pop and Pies and Fun,Á¢€ reprinted in the essential…
Ed Murray
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If I wasn’t a sucker for fuzzed out sonic bliss – and bands, songs and albums that are driven more by passion than musical ability – I wouldn’t have agreed…
Mojo Flucke
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Gather round the fire, kids, let’s roast some chestnuts and let Uncle Mojo tell you a story: Back in 1990, he was a blithely ignorant intern at Billboard, so happy…
Mojo Flucke
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In what better ways could musicians reject the status quo of Led Zeppelin, the musical bollocks of disco, and the pop pablum du jour like Debbie Boone’s “You Light Up…
Mojo Flucke
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Gather ’round the fire, kids–at least if you’re in upstate New York, which got slammed with 20 inches of snow in places, even though the calendar alleges it’s still October–and…
Mojo Flucke
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The Creation nailed a top 40 hit in the UK in 1966 in “Painter Man,” which featured the crazy guitar playing of Eddie Phillips, who used a violin bow on…
Mojo Flucke
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Seeing the nominees for this year’s Rock Hall class, I’m starting to feel like the writers who, year after year, banged on the “Get Art Monk into the Pro Football…
Mojo Flucke
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The more I listen to 8-bit music, the cooler I think it is. Definitely lo-fi, awesomely retro, but caught in a techno-sociological riptide that prevented its popularity until now: No…
Mojo Flucke
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Garage-rockin’ record-collector recidivists will call this one an easy layup, but most U.S. rock fans living outside that niche fraternity are (probably blissfully) unaware that the Dutch rock band Golden…
Mojo Flucke
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This feature’s been a little too Detroit Rock City-heavy. While ’tis true that the Motor City and the surrounding region was so incredibly loaded with fiercely competitive bands that collectors…
Mojo Flucke
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Doooood, if you’ve been following this psychotic lo-fi series of posts all year, you’ve heard some hidden gems, some peculiar covers, some underground legends, and wacky side projects of people…
Mojo Flucke
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My garage-rock/psychedelic collector-dweeb friends (and I am fairly dweebish in this regard, so don’t take that as some kind of slight) will accuse me of taking the week off,…
Mojo Flucke
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After the MC5 fizzled out in a drug-addled puff of bad karma smoke–long before legions of music fans could make heads or tails of them, let alone put them in…
Mojo Flucke
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It’s been a long time coming. I’ve waited for some months to bring this pain, namely MP3s finely crafted from my new USB turntable. Mind you, we’re not talking just…
Mojo Flucke
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The MC5 burned out and faded away so quickly, caving in under the weight of their own drug habits and personality conflicts in the early ’70s, that the punks they…
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