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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Punk would come into existence in the mid-1970s. But in the 1960s, a few proto-punk tunes predicted the future of the genre.

Special to the SentinelTwo of my favorite genres of music are garage rock and psychedelic garage rock. The heyday for both of these genres of music was in the 1960s, although there was a revival of ...

Folk rock’s heyday was definitely in the 1960s. The Youngbloods were one of many forgotten folk rock bands from the 1960s that deserves a bit more attention than they got. Originally a coffee house ...

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 ...

The music of Times New Viking revisits one of pop’s basic and most essential building blocks: fuzz. The Columbus, Ohio, trio mines the amplifier-wrecking distortion and loose grooves of the rock ‘n’ ...

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 ...