Plain and Fancy

Thirteen line-ups, twelve albums, a few bits and pieces and no fatalities. So went the opening text of the Man Family Tree poster included w...

  First Friday formed in South Bend in 1968 while band members were Notre Dame students, offering an appealing blues-rock sound.  One album ...

Polyphony were a Virginia US band who released this concept album originally in 1972. Polyphony proved to be even more deeply rooted in the ...

The Final Solution was among the more intriguing of the legions of bands populating the mid-1960s San Francisco rock scene. Though they rare...

Patto’s second album is a bit of a nugget amongst Vertigo swirl collectors, for with its elaborate sectional “Consequences” styled fold-out ...

Considering that Patto are named after their lead vocalist, Mike Patto, one would be inclined to think initially that this four-piece band w...

Cool name for a band, eh? Just like Horslips and Pussy, band names which allude to the all-encompassing sphere of sex & sexuality, or so...

Many British musicians have been influenced by American soul music, and today we'd like to introduce Jess Roden, a white soul singer who...

After the release of The Good Book in early 1971, Melanie Safka and her producer (and then husband) Peter Schekeryk left Buddah Records to f...

I’ll make no bones about it – Family (1968 – 1973) was and still is my favourite rock band.  A bold thing to admit, perhaps, but the...