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(4 cd boxed set, Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red Records) This is an ‘Underground’ Aladdin’s Cave whose location has long been known and the contents appropriated over the years to have already been spread far and wide. I could comment on those few less brightly known gems collected here, but what such an assemblage immediately prompts is an inventory of the familiar – or in most cases, the obvious. Glaringly so: my familiar, obvious, glaring favs to be precise. There are out there more esoteric and intentionally obscure collections available from this ‘heavy’ period – 1970 her...

1994 Blur, one of the most popular British bands to pursue the guitar-pop tradition popularised by The Kinks and The Jam, scored their first UK No.1 album with ‘Parklife’, which spent more than two years on the charts. Among its 16 songs were the massive UK hit singles: ‘Girls & Boys’, ‘End of a Century’ and ‘To the End’. The album cover for ‘Parklife’ was among the 10 chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of ‘Classic Album Cover’ postage stamps issued in January 2010. Other albums chosen by the Royal Mail to celebrate British pop culture were Led Zeppelin ‘Iv’, David...

WKNC 88.1 FM Leaf Hound was one of those bands that slipped through the cracks in the early 1970s but are now receiving the recognition they deserve. After only one album, they went on the do other things, most notably their singer, Peter French, who joined Atomic Rooster in 1971. But what an album it was! “Growers of the Mushroom” has all the elements of British blues and proto-metal: blistering riffs, raspy vocals, and a twinge of psychedelia. Though Leaf Hound was not as influential as similar bands from the time, like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, one can imagine the impact they coul...