This is my favourite track on my favourite live album, recorded by The Velvet Underground in 1969 at a San Francisco club called The Matrix.

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Nick Drake teamed up with African percussionist Reebop Kwaku Baah on sessions for his classic album Five Leaves Left.

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Tony Joe White teams up with British “desert disco” duo Flying Mojito Bros on a posthumous collection of unreleased songs by the swamp rock king. (more…)

The Shaggs are the last word in the peculiar niche of bands “so bad they’re good.” Or in this case, still bad – but cult favourites.

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Los Ángeles Negros emerged in Chile in the late 1960s playing a blend of bolero, psychedelic funk and rock guitar. This was their debut single.

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Earth Disciples (not the reggae group) were an instrumental funk-soul-jazz group from Southern California in the late ’60s and early ’70s.

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Gale Garnett was a pop star, actor and author who embraced psychedelia with in the late 1960s with her band The Gentle Reign.

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Isaac Hayes is such a natural star: muscular and shaven-headed with a deep and surprisingly sensitive voice, underpinned by funky, lavishly orchestrated jams.

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Colosseum were a prog band formed by former members of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and the Graham Bond Organisation. This was their only single.

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Max Romeo’s career spanned the early days of ska through rocksteady to fiery roots reggae with a political conscience, peaking in the mid-’70s.

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