Plain and Fancy

Band of Light was a blues-based Sydney group, formed in October 1972 by Phil Key, with bassist Peter Roberts, who had both just left Th...

Although perhaps less adventurous, Illusion was on a par with its predecessor, being more disciplined and tunefully stronger, si...

Rutherford High School in Te Atatu Auckland was the origins of what was to become the La De Da's. Schoolmates Kevin Borich, B...

Like their contemporaries The Executives, The Affair, New Dream and Zoot, Sydney band Autumn has been unfairly labelled as a lightwe...

Clover was a Marin County, California four-piece that formed in the late ‘60s and recorded this pair of albums for Fantasy Records in 1970-7...

Holy Mackerel were formed in 1970 from the ashes of Kent-based psychedelic band Jason Crest. Three members of that highly regard...

In the 70s, Krautrock was not only played in the big cities, not only in Berlin, Munich and Düsseldorf, but also in the provinces. Krautrock...

When he was around 13, Robert Charles Guidry began singing with a band around his hometown of Abbeville, La., deep in the Cajun swamps....

There's nothing new in the idea that some of the best rock musicians of the last 15 or 50 years are not as famous as they ought to be; g...

Born in September of what was, at the time I originally wrote this, an indeterminate year ("age is a personal thing - maybe ...