In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles s independently produced film Sweet Sweetback s Baadasssss Song became the top-grossing independent film of that year, helped usher in the blaxploitation genre, and...

Herausgeber: Bice Curiger, Stefan Zweifel

Hardcover
500 pages
160 colored images
21 × 29.7 cm

During the tumultuous mid-1970s in Zurich, two highly...

Rock'n'Roll: Underground/Independent, Label: Blast First, (Typ: 10 inch) - B/w PRIMAL SCREAM - The Scream get all glam-rocked up for this bouncing, sing-a-long led by Bobby "Stardust" Gillespie...

Easy Listening, Label: RCA, (Typ: LP) - Dirk Schory was a classically trained percussionist who moved easily from symphony to experimental music to popular recordings. He served in the percussion...

Postpunk, Label: Earmark, (Typ: Doppel-LP) - Released in September 1982, just months after the classic Hex Enduction Hour, the ever-iconoclastic Smith created Room To Live as a kind of 'fake-left'...

Blues, Label: Fat Possum, (Typ: LP) - Fat Possum Records 25th Anniversary Limited Edition. For the first time on vinyl, reissue of the 2006 full-length CD from the highly respected blues musician....

Punk: 70's, Label: Rave Up, (Typ: LP) - They were icons in the hey-day of punk and new wave, in New York City. Their shows at Max's Kansas City, CBGB's, Trax, Heat, Hurrah's and The Mudd Club were...

Psychedelic, Label: Guerssen, (Typ: LP) - FROM MEXICO! One of the legendary groups of the Mexican rock scene, considered by many to be the best psychedelic record of the late 1960s to come from...

Exotica/Strip, Label: Crypt, (Typ: 7 inch (Single)) - Two classic Las Vegas Grinders from the MASTER TAPES. And - "Wowsville" has an EXTRA 70 seconds featuring studio dialogue. Big Bob Taylor was...

New Action Sounds, Label: Screaming Apple, (Typ: LP) - Some smart guy once said "The HOT POCKETS are a fine bunch of devoted musicians who live and play in the great spirit of real rock´n´roll....

Punk: 80s, Label: Bachelor, (Typ: LP) - Rising like the phoenix from the ashes of the first version of the band; The Haskels served up heavy doses of three minute, adrenaline-fueled hard punk pop,...

Weird Tunes, Label: , (Typ: LP) - Described by Swiss press as an inventive genius marked by total unpredictability,", Roger Baudet's music has preserved its freshness and spontaneity. Provoking...

Postpunk, Label: , (Typ: 7 inch (Single)) - Recorded in mid-'79 as a possible single together with a third track "Go Ahead", rejected by the band's record company EMI at the time. Singer Colin...

Transworld Beat Punk, Label: Daptone, (Typ: CD) - Ready For Take Off - Forgotten Psychedelic, Flower Power And Proto-Punk Artefacts From Austria 1967-1973. An insight into the final convulsions of...

Weird Tunes, Label: , (Typ: Doppel-LP) - Described by Swiss press as an inventive genius marked by total unpredictability,", Roger Baudet's music has preserved its freshness and spontaneity....