Manassas — Down the Road
I picked this up at Deep Groove in Phoenixville sometime in 2018 or ’19, after being completely hypnotized by the excellence of the first Manassas album for a year or […]
I picked this up at Deep Groove in Phoenixville sometime in 2018 or ’19, after being completely hypnotized by the excellence of the first Manassas album for a year or […]
As promised, I’m finally back with more drivel about my record collection. Manassas, the debut by Manassas, is a record and a band I barely knew existed before just a […]
Despite being pretty new to me, this one is special to my heart because it’s special to a friend’s heart – so special that he named his record store after it! […]
My interest in Love piqued by my friend Shawn at Forever Changes records, and having picked up their first album from Sundazed, I went back to him for more. He […]
Love is one of those bands that I should have been into decades earlier. This release from 1966 fits squarely with the other garage rock psychedelia that I was snapping […]
Well, here’s another one I hadn’t listened to in decades, and didn’t really remember very well. There were a couple of tracks that had made it onto mix tapes at […]
So here’s my thing with John Lennon – as much as I thought he was the driving force that made The Beatles rock and gave them their edge (controversial take, […]
In the midst of my well-documented Beatlemania, a state that possessed me, and my roommate, from near the middle of my freshman year at college until well into junior year, […]
I’ve been trying to listen to each of these records as I write them up for this project, whether I think I know them well or not. In some cases, […]
It’s a shame that The Beatles, a band that became famous, initially, for their amazing live energy, left that legacy behind midway through their career and never got to properly […]