Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era is one of the great artefacts of rock and roll. Probably the most revered compilation in music history; its release in 1972 helped inspire the countless musicians who went on to create punk rock, and has inspired innumerable artists since. To help celebrate the 40th birthday of Lenny Kaye’s enduring garage compilation, Warner Music Australia gathered up 18 garage-tinged Australian bands to lend a hand in re-imagining tracks from the seminal original to create Antipodean Interpolations Of The First Psychedelic Era.
West Wales-based Sendelica bring plenty of reliable psychedelic/space-rock sounds to their colourful instrumental journeys on the double CD/vinyl set `Live from the 7th Psychedelic Network Festival 2014'. Recorded on Friday the 28th November 2014 at the Cairo Club in Wurxburg, Germany, the group for this performance was comprised of core members Pete Bingham (guitars, electronics), Glenda Pescado (bass), Lee Relfe (sax) and Meurig Griffiths on drums with Lord Armstrong Sealand on theremin and synths…
In 2006 Community Radio 3CR and Wakefield Press produced the Tomorrow Is Today: Australia In The Psychedelic Era, 1966-70 book documenting and celebrating the Australian youth culture of the late 1960s. In June 2007 3CR, Weather Records and Off The Hip released a double CD featuring 19 of Australia’s finest psych, garage and indie bands covering classic songs from acts such as The Masters Apprentices, Love Ones, The Twilights and Marty Rhone.
Craft Recordings has revealed the full details of the forthcoming Poppies: Assorted Finery from the First Psychedelic Age: a compilation of 1960s-era psychedelic rock featuring cult-classic artists such as Buffy Sainte-Marie, Circus Maximus and Southwest F.O.B.