Our final Southern California Battle of the Garage Bands entrant. What a rich well of music out of SoCal! The Leaves hailed from Lo...

The Seeds released their signature tune, Pushin' Too Hard , twice. The first time in November of 1965 on GNP Crescendo 364x with ...

The second to last day of our epic Southern California Spotlight on the Battle of the Garage Bands. No need for us to rehash the...

More So Cal Battle of the Bands has us in Los Angeles with the legendary party band turned, snarly garage band, The Standells. We...

Day 12 of the So Cal Region of the Battle of the Garage Bands gives us The Other Half. The band hailed from Los Angeles and released 5 ...

Day 9 of the So Cal Region of the Battle of the Garage Bands has us spinning a brutally awesome double sided rocker from Los Angeles...

It's all about the sevens today. Day 7 of the Southern California region of the Battle of the Garage Bands has us, naturally, spi...

Back to So Cal with our regional Battle of the Garage Bands. Today we embrace The Satans. Nothing is known about The Satans. Nothi...

More SoCal Battle of the Garage Bands. The Roosters hailed from Westchester, California, home of the infamous, Randy's Donut Shop...

Day three of our SoCal Region of The Battle of the Garage Bands takes us back to Los Angeles. Today's entrant shows that you do...

Break On Through End Of The Night Day four of our Elektra Records spotlight has us, perhaps predictably, moving from Lov...

Stephanie Knows Who Orange Skies Elektra Records...day three.  Day one of this series talked about how Elektra Presi...

We're going to spend this week looking at some records from the Los Angeles based Elektra Records. Elektra was formed in 1950 by...

The Turtles weren't exactly known for  hard edge rock-n-roll, but this may change your mind (a little).  The Turtles relea...

I'm Gonna Dance On Sunset I don't know a whole lot about this fuzzed out pop-raver. The Decades probably hailed ...

Bobby Parker hailed from the tiny town of Los Angeles, California. Starting in the mid-50s Parker began work as a hired gun, worki...

Damn near verything that Sean Bonniwell and his Music Machine touched was brilliant. It should be no surprise then that The Music Machi...

There is something I love about this version of Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go? It's so very aggressive, so very straightforward, so v...

[originally posted 4/6/09] I'm reposting this as I still have Ray Manzarek on the mind. We've already posted his work as a ...