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The Sonics Psycho Sonic 1964 65 us pioneer garage punk rock 2003 remaster edition Back in the mid-1960s, the legendary Sonics took rocknroll by the scruff of the neck and thrashed it to within an inch of its sorry life, leaving a legacy of some of the most savage, visceral recordings ever made. Compiling their no-holds-barred Etiquette sessions, "Psycho-Sonic" is the ultimate Sonics anthology. One of the best selling Big Beat releases of recent years has been Psycho-Sonic, a comprehensive collection of all the sides the much-feted kings of garage rock recorded for the Etiquette label in 1964/65. Only the most cloistered of music fans would be unaware of the mighty Tacoma combos influence and importance, now stronger than ever thanks to young bucks such as the White Stripes, Hives, Vines etc constantly dropping the bands name.  With access to first generation tapes recently uncovered by Big Beats ongoing celebration of the catalogue of Sonics mentors, the Wailers, we figured i...

The End From Beginning To End 1964 70 uk brilliant sparkling bright psychedelia 2015 four discs box set One thing you learn, sleuthing for obscure psychedelic music from the sixties, is that for every �White Rabbit� there is a �Night Sounds Loud.� And a �Crystal Forms.� And God knows how many other brilliant songs grown out of the same protoplasm, but forgotten to history. There is just no shortage of mind-exploding songs that have long ago slipped away into The Nothing � standout songs from bands less consistent, or just less lucky than Jefferson Airplane. Even knowing that so much great overlooked music is out there, buried deep in record stacks and on YouTube, I was unprepared for �Introspection� by The End. Ironically, seeing that it was produced by Bill Wyman and engineered by Glyn Johns actually lowered my expectations. Let me explain. For an album with such a pedigree � produced by a Rolling Stone in 1968 � to have completely fallen between the cracks, it couldn�t actually be an...