“What the hell are you going to do with those?” asked The Patient Mrs. when I got back to the car and showed her the two Black Sabbath 8-track tapes I’d bought at the annual “Not Just” Rock Expo outside of Philadelphia this past Friday afternoon. It was a fair question. My answer was somewhat […]

I mentioned last Saturday the self-titled album fro Icelandic proto-heavies Icecross that I picked up at the monthly Second Saturday Record Show in Wayne, but that was by no means the only piece of buried treasure I managed to unearth. Along with new albums by Mogwai (meh; people keep telling me I need to like […]

I got back just a bit ago from the Second Saturday Record Show in Wayne, which I know I’ve mentioned before around these parts, and among the assorted treasures I picked up was the above long-player from Icelandic heavy proggers Icecross, whose anti-Christian album art was enough to intrigue me into paying “collectors price” for […]

After my success at the Second Saturday Record Show last month, I hit up the Void Records store on eBay and made a wishlist of obscure ’70s curios. The box arrived over this weekend and I’ve been in trance after psychedelic trance ever since. Most of the stuff is on Gear Fab Records, a label […]

I don’t remember who first recommended I check out Californian heavy proggers Dragonfly, but I’m going to give credit to Rock ‘n’ Roll Gina Brooks, who’s so rock ‘n’ roll that it’s in her name. And if it wasn’t her and it was you and you’re reading this, take it as a compliment that your […]

At the Second Saturday Record Show in scenic Wayne, New Jersey, this past weekend, I ran into a buddy I know from there who puts on noise shows up in Nyack. Now, I’ll rarely check out a band based on their name alone, but when he told me the act who recently played for him […]

Is it possible to want your money back when you got an album for free? This is the question I was asking myself after picking up ’70s proto-metallers Sir Lord Baltimore‘s semi-reunion semi-album III: Raw at the Second Saturday Record Show in Wayne, NJ, over the weekend. The disc, with an inkjet cover, was in […]

Over the hill to the south and down 287 and then Rt. 23 some is the town of Wayne, and just around the corner from that town’s porn shack is the Wayne Firehouse, which has been playing host to the Second Saturday Record Show for longer than I can remember. I used to go as […]