Indie Vinyl

These laid the groundwork for The Ramones & Punk Rock in general. My favorite music of all! These five are guaranteed to cook your goose.

MC5 "Kick Out the Jams"

The Stooges "Fun House"

New York Dolls "New York Dolls"

Flamin' Groovies "Slow Death"

Velvet Underground and Nico "Velvet Underground and Nico"

The new FF LP "I'm Going Away" feels as comfortable as an old sweatshirt that has been stretched out & frayed at the sleeves. The Fiery Furnaces' eighth album is decidedly weird as their others, but this band is always solidly based in trad-rock & even bluesy arrangements. The fact that they can play the hell out of their instruments certainly helps. Satisfying in a way as most avant garde-leaning modern jazz LPs are, perfaps The Fiery Furnaces are now the Jazz Messengers of Indie Rock? A welcome album for the hottest part of summer.

This mid-sixties LP helped homogenize the drone tone of exotic folk & Indian sounds to American Rock & Roller's ears. When I say homogenize, I don't mean it in a negative way: this LP sounds positively perfect in form, a truly beautiful LP. Along with Sandy Bull's output of the same decade, "Rainy Day Raga" is a top fave of mine. Summer is the perfect time to reissue this on vinyl- great for the long hot days & steamy nights