“The early ’80s witnessed the meteoric rise and fall of countless hardcore bands in America. The emergence of a teeming youth whose primary reason for living was utter frustration and ultimately rebellion…

via The Thing On The Doorstep: “Ptôse, the group, began in ’79 as Ptôse Production when they recorded a cassette album and gave it away to friends. The response was so good…

Almost no information about this record exists anywhere on the Internet. The only reference to it that I could find is on a Yahoo Group called “The Texas 60s Music Refuge.” The…

Experimental/synth band from Germany led by Bob Giddens, who produced the first DAF recordings in the UK. They traversed the musical landscape by recording albums that ranged from minimalist/avant-garde electronic music to,…

“Pop music has never sounded stranger than on Der Plan’s debut full-length, Geri Reig, a unique blend of Residents-inspired experimental pop and innovative electronics. A cohesive and endlessly listenable record, it creates…

This is your Nurse With Wound List warning. Like Aquarius Records before me and their Mississippi Records alerts, a lot of my Treasures From The Collectors Slum blog entries require NWW alerts.…

“As a fan of acoustic guitar & violin interaction, I find this obscure latter day singer-songwriter album appealing. It’s a pro-sounding affair with well-written songs, good male vocals and a uniform, reflective…

“One of the most entertaining things to do on websites that allow customer reviews of CDs is read the apoplectic fury Kurt Cobain’s fans have for the original Nirvana, the cultily-adored British…

Of all the records in my collection, I am probably the most surprised by the value of this long out-of-print Jellyfish record on Charisma. As far as I can tell it came…

1975 LP that has been both reissued (with different atwork/tracks) and counterfeited. Victor Peraino was the American keyboard player for Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come, a band often overlooked in the pantheon of…