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Dom – Edge of Time
Dom was a krautrock band that was more obscure than your first pair of socks. They made a personal appearance on Earth–more precisely Dusseldorf, Germany–from 1969 through the early ‘70s and recorded a…
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Brainticket – Cottonwoodhill
Brainticket was an experimental quasi-Krautrock band who were belched out of the hub of the spiral galaxy known as Switzerland in 1968. The band released an astounding psychedelic / musique concrete artifact in…
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Fifty Foot Hose – Cauldron
Fifty Foot Hose was a San Francisco psychedelic rock / electronics band that originally operated for a hot minute in the late 1960s. A little bit more short-lived and obscure than your average…
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Kennelmus – Folkstone Prism
Hailing from the sun-pummeled desert of Phoenix, Arizona, Kennelmus was a local rock band who were notable for belting out an unlikely–and pretty tweaked–combination of psychedelic and surf, and for operating in the…
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Hapshash and the Coloured Coat – Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids
Hapshash and the Coloured Coat was originally a graphic design duo in late 1960s England who drew a series of highly regarded psychedelic concert posters for such rock luminaries as Jimi Hendrix, Pink…
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Parson Sound – Parson Sound
Parson Sound was an obscure Swedish rock band that existed for barely an eyeblink back in the late 1960s, creating a beautiful ruckus for a brief two-year period during the peak moments of…
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The New Tweedy Brothers – The New Tweedy Bros!
Originating in Portland, Oregon in 1965, the New Tweedy Brothers started out life sounding for all the world like an old-time jug band. But, by the time the Summer of Love hovered up…
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Ouba – Freak Out Total
Back in the sweltering summer of 1968, a gaggle of Montreal rock musicians gathered in a local recording studio for a grand total of a half hour to lay down some tracks. Although…
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Citizens For Interplanetary Activity – C.I.A. Change
The Citizens For Interplanetary Activity was an obscure San Francisco band founded in 1966 whose only known output was a soundtrack recorded in New York in September, 1967 for a 23-minute underground experimental…
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Brandon LaBelle + Christof Migone – Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language
The publisher of the book Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language, Errant Bodies Press, describes it as “an anthology focusing on the relationship of language to sound, writing to music, bringing together a…