January | 2012 | TorpedoPop |

The Story Of The Kinks

By David M. Snyder • 01/31/2012

Your Really Got Me: The Story of the Kinks [ABC/Voiceprint]
Unfortunately this is another poorly cobbled together package. Contrary to the PR blurb …

Bobby Emmett – Learning Love

By David M. Snyder • 01/30/2012

Bobby Emmett – Learning Love [D.I.Y/2010]
Bobby Emmett spent a few years in the earlier part of this decade playing his Hammond organ, and for …

The British Are Coming … Again

By Gary Pig Gold • 01/29/2012

“No more Beatles! No more Stones! We just want the Viletones!” went the cry of true teen angst ‘round my Toronto neighborhood circa the …

Tages – She’s Having A Baby Now

By Lars Wenker • 01/28/2012

Tages is another Swedish band that absolutely deserves your attention. I think they were one of the best bands ever from Sweden. She’s Having …

Harvey Kubernik in his Canyon Of Dreams

By Gary Pig Gold • 01/27/2012

I certainly tend to agree that, in the infamous words of no less an authority on all things Laurel Canyon, California as F. Zappa, …

Brian Wilson: Songwriter, 1962-1969

By Gary Pig Gold • 01/26/2012

As those Beach Boys prepare to do it again for their 50th Anniversary, Gary Pig Gold reminds us of…..
TEN REASONS WHY
BRIAN WILSON: SONGWRITER, 1962 …

Fan Tan: Jan Berry, In Memoriam

By Gary Pig Gold • 01/25/2012

“He knew how to produce records very well. He had a very strong spirit for recording music. He was a great producer.”
When no less …

The Sights – Most Of What Follows Is True

By David M. Snyder • 01/24/2012

The Sights – Most Of What Follows Is True [Alive/2010]
It’s been five years – that’s over a generation in rock and roll years — …

“The Greatest Rock Movie You’ve Never Seen,” according to Steven Van Zandt

By Gary Pig Gold • 01/23/2012

Attention, music fans and pop culture connoisseurs everywhere:
Your assignment today is to gather together in one medium-sized concert facility, for one evening only, one …