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Lo-Fi Mojo: The Gypsy Trips, “Ain’t it Hard”
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 let’s take a deep
Read More »Lo-Fi Mojo: The Creation, “How Does it Feel to Feel”
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 the strings—a trick so
Read More »Lo-Fi Mojo: 8-bit via Bitshifter
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 one considered the very
Read More »Lo-Fi Mojo: Golden Earring(s)
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 Earring was more than
Read More »Lo-Fi Mojo: The Soul Benders, “Seven and Seven Is”
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 today gravitate toward that
Read More »Lo-Fi Mojo: The Driving Stupid, “Horror Asparagus Stories”
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 in more famous bands
Read More »Lo-Fi Mojo: The Pudding, “Magic Bus”
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, because this one’s a
Read More »Lo-Fi Mojo: Rob Tyner Band, “Tutti Frutti”
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 the rock pantheon, which
Read More »Lo-Fi Mojo: The Sinister Six, “Go Away”
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 any MP3s, but obscure
Read More »Lo-Fi Mojo: Fleetwood Mac (1.0), “Oh Well”
Some no-compromise music fans — especially those with ears tuned to the blues-centric, distortion-fueled sound that comprises the DNA of all quality rock, ever — would say that Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks are
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