GREGG

• John Simon - John Simon’s Album
  
• Duncan Browne - Duncan Browne
  
• DJ Muggs vs. GZA - Grandmasters
  
• Edit Frost - It’s a Game
  
• Controller 7 - Bumps
  
• Colin Blunstone - One Year
  
• Sam Cooke - Night Beat
  
• Evie Sands - Any Way That You Want Me
  
• Michael Hurley - Down in Dublin
  
• Eno/Moebius/Roedelius - After the Heat

BRENT ST. JAMES
Information superlover - leader of the loyola boys!

Tip: Thanks to David Watkins from the Hollywood store for compiling the best x-mas CD of all time!

JARROD LABINE
AKA STANLEY SWEETHEART
I work in the new rock and soul sections of Amoeba, SF.

Tip: Check out the “Nick Rossi Set” at Club Deluxe on Haight Street for a soul-jazz, organgrinding good time!

JAMES KETCHUM

• Whysp - self-titled
  Sounds like you and the other players in your Dungeons and Dragons campaign started an in-character band.

SHAYDE
used rock

• Avaraus - Jattilaisrotta
  Uber-prolific Fins show there are no rules. Free-noise that keeps you wanting more and more. This collection is a wonderful starting place for those curious about contemporary underground Finnish music.
  
• Jana Hunter - Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom
  Ghostly vocal music from Texas. Cool no-fi production. Every song is perfect. Definite candle music.
  
• OCS - 3
  Diseased SF urban folk music. Dreamy in that dirty scary kind of way.
  
• Howling Hex - You Can’t Beat Tomorrow
  No you can’t. Even if you were not a fan of Royal Trux, the new Neil Hagerty stuff is worth exploring. If you’re a guitar nerd, this is for you.
  
• Samara Lubelski - Spectacular of Passages
  New York based artist. Incredibly focused songs with minimal production. She’s played with Tower Recordings and Hall of Fame.

• Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
  Ingesting massive amounts of peyote and LSD, this former child star and collaborator with the likes of Brian Wilson and the Byrds fused a seemingly relentless amount of Americana into this skewed and erratic album. It twists and turns with affected vocals and elaborate orchestration. There are echoes and effects throughout. His labyrinthine lyrics pulse through the rather structureless songs. It’s a compelling and unique relic of the late 1960s.
  
• Hapshash and the Coloured Coat - Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids
  Some people say that Amon Duul must have been listening to this record quite a bit over at the old commune. Other people say that this record is way too far out or just plain worthless. People don’t know anything. This record would be (at this moment) the ideal psychedelic-drugtaking- and-freaking-out-to-the-relentlessjam record. I won’t put money on it, but I bet these guys had no idea what they were doing. They must have gotten together with some buddies (the Heavy Metal Kids are pre-Spooky Tooth by the way) and brought along a box of whistles, bongos, and other assorted instruments, then dropped some acid and jammed ‘til the sun came up. It’s truly incredible - it’s all I ever listen to now, man. Plus the band was really a side project to the art collective of the same name which also made recognizable psychedelic posters over in London in the late ‘60s, naturally.
  
• International Harvester - Sov Gott Rose-Marie
  Man, here’s another band that got a head start on old Amon Duul. These guys weren’t German or English, though. I guess they liked taking drugs and delving into long droning jams over in Sweden too. This band has been together forever, changing their name to Trad Gras Och Stenar in the early ‘70s. The first half is a combination of pre-Kraut rock, psych and Fugs silly freak out. The second half contains two long droning Kraut-like jams. These guys’ proficiency in jamming with each other is quite compelling as the songs build up slowly. The atmosphere calls in a bit of a dream state that drones on like a soundtrack to a journey into a deserted land in the autumn sun.
• The Fugs - Second Album
  This group of beat poets and protohippies crafted a poignant brand of coffee house and book store rock. They can’t play very good, yet somehow ever song is perfect. They like drugs, women and the absurd, and each terrific song is riddled with these images and more.
  
• The Fool - self-titled
  I didn’t want to put this one on here, but I figured that since I can’t keep myself from listening to it at least once a day throughout the past few weeks, I owe it to myself and the public to lay it right here as my last review.The Fool were also a design collective that hailed from Amsterdam. They moved to London and worked with The Beatles and The Hollies, among others. In 1967, it was decided they would make an album, and their buddy, Graham Nash produced it. It is questionable as to how much of The Fool actually played on the album, but these songs do show what music would become in the following years. Also taking hold of some of those rhythmic jams that the Germans were famous for a couple years later.