EXCLUSIVE: The Remains were a 1960s garage rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, who were given the honor of supporting The Beatles on their final U.S. tour in 1966. The band is now the subject of a ...

Steve Ellis. Marlys Roe. Jim Brandenburg. Dean Senftner. Myron Lee. The names may mean little to the casual music fan, but to Tony Texley they are the bloodline of a sound which four decades past lit ...

Punk rock’s first wave didn’t last very long. It burned out nearly as quickly as the short songs of its most famous bands. But the scene wasn’t limited to what happened over a few years in the mid-70s ...

DAY TRIPPERS: The Ron-De-Voos are one of several WNC garage rock bands featured on 'Psychedelic States: The Carolinas in the '60s,' a new compilation co-curated by Asheville music historian and deejay ...

I’ve always been transparent about the fact that the Secret History of Chicago Music relies on other people. I get leads from the musicians I write about, from my knowledgeable friends, and from ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

I don’t know exactly when it happened, but at some point in my lifetime, “lo-fi” went from being an adjective to being a genre. By the mid-1990s, artists were making a conscious decision to eschew the ...