“If Roky Erickson had vanished from the face of the earth after The 13th Floor Elevators released their epochal debut single, “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” in early 1966, in all likelihood he’d still be regarded as a legend among garage rock fanatics for his primal vocal wailing and feral harmonica work” - music critic Mark [...]
“Garage music is not bad, because Christ was born in a manger, which was probably like a garage of that time.” - Sky Saxon
In the last couple of weeks we here at Outloud have been looking at some of the greatest punk and proto-punk singles of all time. So far we have taken a [...]
The British Invasion was a period between 1964 (arguably kick started by The Beatles‘ Ed Sullivan appearance) and 1967 when our buddies across the pond responded to American blues, rock and roll and soul music. Although not about a specific genre, it came to describe the music made by a host of English musicians [...]
Hey ya’ll and welcome to another round of Outloud. In this week’s edition, I am going to be continuing my series on beloved one hit wonders of punk rock. If you remember last week we featured Wreckless Eric and his unforgettable anthem “Whole Wide World” [link]. This time around we are going to be exploring [...]
Welcome to yet another edition of Outloud. This week we are going to be taking a look at one of punk rock’s great one hit wonders - Wreckless Eric [Official Site] Now I know what you are thinking how could a punk rocker be a one hit wonder? Aren’t those bands and artists supposed [...]
There are some people that come out fully formed. For example, Thurston Moore has never looked a hair under 18 years old even though he has been alive for 50 years. Yet another example of such a philosophy although in reverse is comedian George Burns. For all extensive purposes the man has been at least [...]
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Hey folks! Welcome to yet another edition of Outloud. Before I rant about this week’s band and rare video, I would like to thank those that answered last week’s quiz questions. Unfortunately, every single one of you guys were right so I guess I have to pay out some Outloud Points (PATENT [...]
Howdy y’all. Welcome to Outloud. In this week’s installment I am going to be gracing you with a performance by a band formed by Link Wray and Robert Gordon. Hopefully the name Link Wray is familiar to you already, if not then it is definitely time to do some homework. Among Link’s many [...]
Hey folks! Welcome to another edition of Outloud. My job at the moment is tedious to say the least. All I do is find email addresses and spam up people’s mailboxes with offers for a variety of different services.
Before you ask I am not responsible for filling up your inbox with “great offers” [...]
If you were to put a bunch of music buffs, pop historians and other literate, hip people in a room and asked each of them who was their favorite Beatle, you will obviously get impassioned cries for all six (and yes I am counting Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best as well. I have actually [...]