Jim Allen

Underground Americana trailblazers with a hard-grooving side. Strange as it may seem, a line can be drawn from the earthy, all-American roots rock of Eggs

“We were about loud, psychedelic rock,” says bassist Richard Price, remembering the mind-bending fuzztone glory days of his ‘60s band The 2nd Coming. But their history is tightly intertwined with the origins of the Allman Brothers Band and the birth of the rootsy rumble the world came to know as Southern rock. Their only album,

Five years ago I took part in an air pollution study with Professor Prashant Kumar of the University of Surrey, Professor and Chair in Air Quality and Health, also the founding director, Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) and co-director, of the Institute for Sustainability.

Tucked deep into this account of artist/producer/manager Peter Asher's meteoric music career is a fleeting image that says it all.

Horizontal Brian were on the same New Wave trajectory as XTC and Split Enz. If you missed them, here's a taste.

The second installment of our journey into the deep end of the prog pool starts off with a salute to a relatively unsung hero who left us recently, but who also left behind a mighty legacy. Keyboard wizard Dave Greenslade didn’t get the kind of mainstream attention enjoyed by some of his peers. But between his solo work and his time with both Colosseum and the band that bore his surname, he made an imprint that identifies him in perpetuity as a first-gen prog innovator.

After the breakup of the Beatles, the Liverpool Echo weren't ready to give up on the Mersey sound. And so....

The Heaters were "proof of concept" for groups like The Go-Gos -- but their unique power pop sound was just a shade ahead of the curve.

A series of interviews conducted at a nursing home has become a testament to connection.

The titles are the same. But did Michael McDonald pinch the track from 1962 crooner Chuck Jackson? You be the judge.