Psychedelic pop emerged as a musical genre in the mid-1960s from a culture of drug use and mind expansion. Trying to replicate in music what drugs did to the mind, bands like The Byrds and The Grateful Dead used fuzz guitar and reverb effects to refashion the tired pop song into something more relevant. More […]
Hell’s Kitchen
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Cuban Assassins, Gone Drinkin’, Hellacaust and Iron Giant
The announcement that The Marquee Club was closing was rather quickly followed up with a chaser of good news—The Paragon Theatre opening in its space for April 1. This still means the closure of Hell’s Kitchen. And that means the loss of a venue for a lot of local and touring bands, primarily those who […]