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Eccentric Soul: Consolidated Productions Vol. 1

During his 40 years spent operating at the margins of the record business, Consolidated Productions founder Mel Alexander penned a total of 73 original songs...

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Eccentric Soul: Consolidated Productions Vol. 1
Private Mind Garden

Private Mind Garden

It used to take more than a Distrokid account and cracked version of Ableton to get your music into the world. Back in the Before Times, an artist had two choices when it came t...

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Joyce Street: Tied Down

Joyce Street: Tied Down

Starting at the tailend of the 1960s and continuing through the bygone ’90s, the Mississippi-born Joyce Spence journeyed across the United States and Canada, propelled by her...

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The Mystic Tide: The Power Of The Amateur

The Mystic Tide: The Power Of The Amateur

The Mystic Tide story skirts the shoreline of a prototypical mid-60s grassroots rock’n’roll parable. It’s a modest tale, representing little more than a ripple across the...

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Numero In The 1960s

Numero In The 1960s

It's easy to think of America in the 1960s as a rock-obsessed, LSD-chugging, free-loving Dionysia. The reality was much more conservative. Hungover from the Eisenhower-Kennedy h...

Read Time : 12 mins