I have an irrational love for John Finnemore’s Teddy Lester books. First published in the early 20th century, they were republished in the 1950s. My dad won some as school prizes, and I completed the collection on TradeMe (New Zealand’s…
Can you identify 20 artists by their third album? I identified them all in 1:03, although I had to resort to genre-based guessing for the last few. Congratulations to Rich Kamerman, who just pipped Max and jprobichaud for last…
On New Year’s Eve 1974, Mick Fleetwood invited guitarist Lindsey Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham insisted that his girlfriend Stevie Nicks was part of the package, and Fleetwood Mac’s tenth and most successful line-up was formed. The line-up of…
Warren Zevon emerged later than most of his LA singer-songwriter contemporaries. His work was often dark and nasty, like film noir in song. Zevon was born in Chicago – his father worked as a bookie for the notorious Los Angeles…
Impossibly long legs and a three-octave range made fictional K-pop band Huntrix the biggest pop-culture phenomenon of 2025. KPop Demon Hunters The three pop stars/demon slayers of fictional K-pop band Huntrix were the biggest pop-culture phenomenon of 2025. Their face-off…
Can you identify 12 albums by their final track? I identified them all in 31 seconds – can you beat my time? Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who finished the 1970 end-of-year chart quiz faster than Max. RIP to Midnight Oil’s…
During ten anarchic years, The Replacements recorded a ton of wonderful songs, self-sabotaged their career, and never achieved the mass success they promised. The Replacements started as part of the hardcore punk scene of the early 1980s, but they were…
It’s 2026 now, but I’m still working through some 2025 releases. New music reviews might be an overstatement here – Eddie Chacon released Lay Low last January, while Oklou’s had a baby since releasing Choke Enough. Eddie Chacon Lay Low…
Credits 3 GLENDORA – The Downliners Sect (U.K.)(Ray Stanley) PERSONNEL/KEITH GRANT: lead vocals, bass * TERRY GIBSON: lead guitar * DON CRAINE: rhythm guitar, vocals * JOHN SUTTON: drumsProduced by MIKE COLLIERRecorded in London, EnglandColumbia single #DB-7939 (1966) The Downliners…
Last week we looked at 1990. This week, can you name all the year-end hot 25 singles of 1970? I certainly couldn’t – just like the last two weeks, I scored precisely 17 Congratulations to NostalgicItalian, who scored a…
