IckMusic (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Another fine tune courtesy of Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure. The Seeds were a Los Angeles-based garage-psych-rock band in the 60’s and early 70’s. They were fronted by one Sky Saxon, who parted with the band in the early 70’s to join up with Yahowha religious family (aka the Source Family), led by Father Yod. They [...]
Electronic Cerebrectomy (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
I've been meaning to put this up for weeks. I love these videos people have been making of Bettie Page, replacing the music. In this case, it's the Seeds from 1965, with another of those great California bands that just comes at you out of the dark. Anything that sounds like it belongs on Nuggets (and this one actually was) is perfect for me. I probably should've had this up a month ago when lead singer...
Bedazzled! (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Bedazzled.tv Presents: A Tribute To Sky Saxon and the Seeds (Podcast)I put together a little video tribute to (August 20, 1937 – June 25, 2009) and the Seeds. I had been looking forward to seeing him the the festival earlier this month but this was thwarted by his untimely passing. (I'm still encoding the .m4v of it and will post later today for anybody that wants to Ipod it.)Posted by Cookie...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Photo:Charbonneau/WireImage Billy Corgan has scheduled six tour dates in Los Angeles spanning from August 26th to August 31st, but he won’t be performing under the Smashing Pumpkins moniker. Instead, the band’s official Website writes, Corgan will be accompanied by “special guests” Spirits in the Sky, a band that recently formed for a tribute concert dedicated to [...]
Earvolution (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Philadelphia, coming off the Billy Joel and Elton John concerts this past weekend, is set for another full slate of great live shows this week. Tuesday night sees a triple header at Johnny Brenda's with Love, Sky Saxon and the Seeds and the Electric Prunes. On Wednesday the focus shits back across town with Edwin McCain at the World Cafe Live. Thursday night has an all age show from Chairlift at
WPKN Today (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
WPKN BENEFIT CONCERT - THURSDAY, AUGUST 6 IN FAIRFIELD Music history will be made on Thursday, August 6th at 8:00 pm at The Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. Join music lovers and WPKN-supporters in an exclusive version of the California ‘66 Tour that pulls into town this Thursday! . For one-night only, L.A.-based bands The Electric Prunes and LOVE with Johnny...
WPKN Today (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
WPKN BENEFIT CONCERT - THURSDAY, AUGUST 6 IN FAIRFIELD Music history will be made on Thursday, August 6th at 8:00 pm at The Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. Join music lovers and WPKN-supporters in an exclusive version of the California ‘66 Tour that pulls into town this Thursday! . For one-night only, L.A.-based bands The Electric Prunes and LOVE with Johnny...
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Last night a one-time supergroup dubbed Spirits In The Sky paid tribute to psych-rock pioneer Sky "Sunlight" Saxon at LA's Echoplex. Bringing together Billy Corgan's pickup group, Electric Prune bassist Mark Tulin, and Strawberry Alarm Clock keyboardist Mark Weitz, Spirits performed the Norman Greenbaum hit they were named after, the Seeds' "900 Million People Daily (All Makin' Love),"...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi—who’s currently in a legal battle with Ozzy Osbourne over the rights to the band’s name—has signed a deal to allow Next Films to use Black Sabbath as the name of a horror movie franchise, The Hollywood Reporter reports, adding that Iommi will score the film. Ironically, before the [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
When the music journalist and future Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye compiled and annotated the double album Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 for Jac Holzman’s Elektra Records in the early 1970s, he introduced a new generation of fans around the world to US garage bands like the Electric Prunes, the Standells, the Shadows Of Knight, the 13th Floor Elevators,...
Tyee - Home (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Young bands are still copping his feel.
Raven Sings the Blues (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
So I'm not one much for tributes but it seems a shame to let one of the garage greats fall without notice. For all his eccentricities (see the YaHoWa years) Sky Saxon was a welcome voice in the halls of garage punk history. Sad to see him pass. Screw moments of silence... turn these up! [MP3] The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard (live) Well it seems only fitting to start things off with the track that keeps...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Premier healthcare alliance today announced that three new hospital supplier agreements have been launched in its supplier diversity program aimed at increasing the number of
Chart Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
Poor old Green Day, always pretty good, sometimes amazing, but never quite escaping the headmasterly tut of, well, anyone who's investigated rock music back far enough to spot where they seem to get their ideas from. Want proof? Well, Noel Gallagher - the self-appointed curator of all things 'proper' and 'right' - hates them, by all accounts. He's wrong about that. He's wrong about a lot of things,...
The Equity Kicker (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
You might have seen that Marc Andreessen and Bradley Horowitz announced a new $300m fund yesterday, named Andreessen Horowitz and with just the two of them as partners. They have no website. With the precision and clarity that made me a big fan of his blogging until he stopped last year Andreessen yesterday set out [...]
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