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Lou Read Jr. likes to play and record real loud for like ten hours non stop. At some point we eat food. Then we play some more. Meditate some. Then we Listen to The Move and The Young Rascals for a while. Some days Lou Read Jr.  just watches film noir, or cheesy horror or sci [...]

Each week SONGHEADS  features obscure video clips of some of the best bands you’ve never heard of. Also check out SONGHEADS top 50 obscure pop gems.

It’s hard to believe that  it’s a little known fact
that two of the biggest bands in rock history  made thier American debut perfoming in a weird series of concerts at a NYC movie theatre for promoter Murry The K. This was during a transitional period in the career of  popular disc jockey and radio personality Murray The K.  

Murray departed from [...]

It was Roger McGuinn and George Harrison’s arpegiated style of playing guitar, a sort of picking and sometimes strumming technique on a Twelve String Rickenbacker that has gone on to influence a universe of guitar bands, just ask Peter Buck!

  Influenced by folk, bluegrass, mandolin playing, banjo picking and other kinds of acoustic guitar music, Roger [...]

One of the most powerful forces known to all rockers, the thundering guitar sound emanating from the wall of over-driven speakers powered from Johnny’s stack of  100 watt Marshall heads.

Johnny developed his sound early on, brutalizing his Mosrite Ventures II and hammering those bar chords in a frenzied style that has had more influence on punk rock [...]

Paul Westerberg First Act Guitar sold at Wall Mart

The Replacements had/have their cult following and Paul still has his loyal fans. With all the critical acclaim and stories of those legendary live shows Westerberg still never managed to attain the mainstream success and record sales of even those who were influenced by him to [...]