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LOST TREASURES THE MARBLES “The Marbles”   By Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”] The Marbles are best remembered, if at all, for their connection to the careers of two very different bands. The first is the Bee Gees. All of the Marbles’ singles and their sole, self-titled LP were produced by Barry Gibb, and seven of […]

JANGLE ON! SEPTEMBER by Eric Sorensen [linebreak style=”simple”] Wow!  After several months of little in the way of jangly music, a plethora of new material – featuring chiming Rickenbacker 12-string riffs – has been released.  In addition to the obvious Byrds references in many of the songs, there has been a Gene Clark theme – […]

MOVIE REVIEW Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Simian Cinema Starring Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell; directed by Matt Reeves This week’s review is written by Caesar,  an ape critic who can amazingly utter  rudimentary English (as opposed to French,  or Portuguese, or Swahili) with some helpful translation: “Grunt akkk humans uhhh […]