With recent collections springing up covering Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, it’s no surprise that Righteous now turn their attention to Les Baxter. So, where does Les fit into the exotica landscape? Well, Les is the exotica landscape. He started it, built the roads it still travels on and wrote many of the themes which […]
New Documentary Looks to Shed Some Light on The Darkness Here’s your timeline: 2002 – The Darkness are unsigned 2004 – The Darkness have sold over one million copies of their debut album 2006 – The Darkness split up ‘Welcome to the Darkness’, the long in gestation documentary on the band, looks to fill in […]
Thee Headcoats’ Classic 1990 Album Gets a Well-Deserved Reissue from Damaged Goods Some 33 years ago, when the Earth was young and the future held nothing but honey and peacocks for us all, Sub Pop released Thee Headcoats‘ ‘Heavens to Murgatroyd, Even! It’s Thee Headcoats (Already)’ a grammar-packed album which was doubtless already their umpteenth […]
