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LOST TREASURES THE KITCHEN CINQ “Everything But…” By Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”] The Kitchen Cinq undoubtedly have one of the best “bad pun” names in rock ’n’ roll. A five piece garage/pop band from Texas, their name plays off the French word for five “cinq,” which of course is pronounced approximately the same as “sink.” The […]

LOST TREASURES THE WAVES “Shock Horror!” By Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”] Most power pop bands start out a little rough and polish off the edges as they develop their sound and as their producers become more committed to scoring a big hit single. Often when they do, they cease to be power pop bands at […]

LOST TREASURES BARRY BOOTH “Diversions!” By Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”] Barry Booth is a most unlikely artist to have recorded one of the great lost chamber pop albums of the ’60s. When the album, Diversions!, was released in 1968, he was already thirty years old and had never recorded an album or even a single […]

LOST TREASURES CHERRY VANILLA “Bad Girl” By Peter Marston [linebreak style=”25.png”] Cherry Vanilla (born Kathleen Dorritie) is probably best known as one of the stars of Andy Warhol’s anti-play Pork and as David Bowie’s publicist in the early ’70s. But by the middle of that decade, she was fronting her own band and bringing her […]