Posted on 04 February 2015
MIKE BARON’S BEST OF 2014 by Mike Baron [linebreak style=”simple”] ============================================================================= One: THE PINECONES: Ooh! (Reel Cod) An instant classic and a masterpiece. Paul Linklater’s Toronto-based trio makes incandescent, luminous psychedelic rock that draws on the Yardbirds, the Hollies, the Beatles, the whole power pop panoply, sounding instantly familiar yet refreshingly […]
Posted on 04 February 2015
LOST TREASURES SIMON DUPREE & THE BIG SOUND “Without Reservations“ By Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”] Like most of the bands featured in the Lost Treasures, Simon Dupree and the Big Sound are little known―but, surprisingly, they are perhaps least known for Without Reservations, their sole LP, released on Parlophone in 1967. They are better […]