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Lo-Fi Mojo: Lambchop

Ed Murray June 18, 2009 3

The Nashville-based country-esque musical collective Lambchop isn’t exactly the first band that comes to mind when you think “lo-fi.” Quite the opposite, in fact, given their membership’s high body count, leader Kurt Wagner’s penchant

Lo-Fi Mojo: Vivian Girls, “Moped Girls”

Ed Murray May 21, 2009 7

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

Lo-Fi Mojo: The High Numbers

Ed Murray May 7, 2009 3

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

Lo-Fi Mojo: Cactus

Ed Murray April 9, 2009 12

From its inception, the band Cactus was always supposed to be a supergroup. The rhythm section of late-‘60s psychedelic sludge rockers Vanilla Fudge – namely, bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice – had

Lo-Fi Mojo: Proto-Little Feat

Ed Murray March 26, 2009 12

The original Lowell George-led Little Feat had a string of classic albums in the 1970s, from their self-titled debut on through 1978’s live Waiting For Columbus, their best seller. After George died at the

Lo-Fi Mojo: “Farmer John”

Ed Murray February 26, 2009 6

Like most listeners, the first time I heard the song “Farmer John” was on the Neil Young & Crazy Horse return-to-form album Ragged Glory in 1987. It seemed almost tailor-made for the proto-punk, garage

Popdose Flashback: Pixies, “Doolittle”

Ed Murray February 16, 2009 10

Pixies – Doolittle (1989, 4AD) purchase this album (Amazon) To a certain extent, Doolittle – the Pixies’ most accessible (and best-selling) album – is all about tension. The tension of band trying to continue

Lo-Fi Mojo: Vivian Girls

Ed Murray February 12, 2009 4

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 any blowback caused by

Lo-Fi Mojo: Black Pearl

Ed Murray January 29, 2009 13

I first heard about Black Pearl from Lester Bangs. Not first-hand, of course. But from his 1971 Creem magazine essay “Of Pop and Pies and Fun,” reprinted in the essential (and first!) anthology of