MOTT THE HOOPLE – THE HOOPLE: Last Call For Rock’s Hard Luck Kids

DonJune 7, 2019
I’M A FREAK 2 BABY: Deeper Into The Pursuit Of Amplified Weirdness

DonMarch 15, 2019
ALL THE YOUNG DROOGS: Junkshop Glam To The Third Power

DonMarch 2, 2019
I’M A FREAK, BABY: The Freaky, Fuzzy, Psyched-Out Origins Of Hard Rock

DonFebruary 15, 2019
OH YES WE CAN LOVE: The Deep Reach Of The Glittering And Glamorous

DonFebruary 1, 2019
MOTT THE HOOPLE – ALL THE YOUNG DUDES: The Ravers’ Reinvention

DonJanuary 18, 2019
CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC SOUNDTRACK: For Whom The Glittering Disco Bells Toll

DonNovember 27, 2018
MESSAGE FROM THE COUNTRY – THE MOVE: Beating The Contractual Obligation Album Odds

DonJuly 5, 2018
LOOKING ON – THE MOVE: An Incubator For Orchestral Electricity

DonMay 25, 2018

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SALSOUL ORCHESTRA – THE SALSOUL ORCHESTRA STORY: The Giddy, Glitzy Heights Of Orchestral Disco

DonMay 10, 2018

The integration of disco and orchestras was big business in the mid-'70s. At its best, this marriage of musical elegance and relentless groove perfected the gl...

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THE MOVE – SHAZAM: When Flower Punks Become Cinemascope Rockers

DonApril 12, 2018

The Move was a success at home, with a string of hit singles from their inception and a top-20 album in 1968, a year where competition on the U.K. charts was do...

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MOVE – THE MOVE: A Flower Punk Kaleidoscope

DonMarch 15, 2018

Amongst aficionados of English rock, knowledge of The Move is a topic that separates the professionals from the dilettantes. They were a phenomenon in their ho...

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SWEET – SWEET FANNY ADAMS: The Art Of Becoming One’s Own Glam-Rocker

DonMarch 6, 2018

Sweet had a long road to respectability as rockers. Like a lot of young acts in the U.K. during the late '60s and early '70s, they made a bid for music busines...

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MOTT THE HOOPLE – BRAIN CAPERS: A Viking Funeral For The Island Years

DonJanuary 26, 2018

It is one of several bitter ironies in the Mott The Hoople story that they delivered the finest album of their Island Records era at a time when they felt forgo...

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MOTT THE HOOPLE – WILDLIFE: The Country-Rock Chill-Out Of The Island Years

DonJanuary 18, 2018

All of the Mott The Hoople albums from their Island Records era have their partisans but if one had to be singled out as the least popular of the group, it woul...

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VAULT OF HORROR: THE ITALIAN CONNECTION: The Genre-Blurring Sound Of Italian Pulp

DonJanuary 2, 2018

Like many a horror fan raised in the VHS age, Schlockmania obtained an education in Italian horror and cult fare at the local video store. The boxes and ad copy...

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MOTT THE HOOPLE – MAD SHADOWS: Bruised Artistry Amid The Chaos

DonNovember 9, 2017

If the first Mott The Hoople album was a magical bit of alchemy that was quickly willed into existence then their second album, Mad Shadows, was the hard-won re...

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THE STONE KILLER: Gunning For Gangsters The Bronson/Winner Way

DonNovember 7, 2017

Michael Winner was on a hot streak in the first half of the '70s, cranking out one crackerjack "guy's movie" after another. Several of these films were done wi...

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CAN YOU FEEL THE FORCE? THE JOHN LUONGO DISCO MIXES: An Extended Play Session With A Mixmaster

DonOctober 19, 2017

John Luongo's name isn't thrown around as much as the usual disco-remix suspects - Tom Moulton, Walter Gibbons, Larry Levan, etc. - but he's every bit as succes...

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MOTT THE HOOPLE – S/T: Manufacturing Genius With Lunatic Methodology

DonOctober 12, 2017

In time, Mott The Hoople would become their own mythic beast of rock and roll legend but they began as an experiment. A mixture of high-stakes gambling, madnes...

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ALOHA GOT SOUL: Yacht Rock Catches A Pacific Wave

DonMarch 14, 2016

One of Schlockmania's favorite compilations of recent vintage was Americana: Rock Your Soul, a delightful dig through the crates of lesser known soft-rock and s...

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