Zero G Sound

Posted in September 2013: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Chilean coup d’etat that ousted the constitutional president of C...

The first half-dozen cuts on "Sound Sun Pleasure" (1970) are thought to have been documented between 1958 and 1960, during Sun R...

Wish you a peaceful Christmas! This aren´t the Christmas songs you´ll hear in the malls or at the parades. No Santa Claus. No reindeer. ...

"Place Of Hope" is an album with songs performed by musicians from the USA and South Africa. It was dedicated to the students of ...

Oscar Chávez was born in Mexico in 1935. He spent his early years studying theater at the Escuela de Arte Teatral del Instituto Nacional...

Opinions (mine included) run hot and cold over this hard-to-find two volume set of Scratch dub. I don't think it is as excellent and cr...

"Why Black Man Dey Suffer", recorded in 1971, was originally deemed too controversial for release by EMI , Fela Kutis label at th...

The Charlie Parker Story is an LP record by Charlie Parker, released posthumously by Savoy Records. While many of the tracks on this album...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe became gospel music's first crossover artist and its first great recording star. Her vocals and electric guitar p...

An early LP on Savoy that gathers Dizzy Gillespie's small-group recordings from 1951-52, "The Champ" has a lot to recommend i...

Leonard Cohen passed away yesterday at the age of 82. Rest in peace! The Songs of Leonard Cohen Covered is a tribute album to Leonard C...

75 years ago, the Nazis began deporting Jews to death camps. The infamous Track 17 at Berlin's Grunewald station was the departure po...

"Singles. Period. The Vinyl Years 1980–1990" is a compilation album by Dutch punk rock band The Ex, containing most of their sin...

"Strange Strings" is a somewhat legendary album from the mid-'60s. "I'm painting pictures of things I know about, an...

A collection of early-style highlife straight out of Nigeria, with only one artist from outside the country represented, and all tracks com...

Langston Hughes' liner notes: "You could call Josh White the Minstrel of the Blues, except that he is more than a Minstrel of the ...

Pioneer Virginia gospel/pop quartet of the '30s and '40s. Calling their innovative approach to sacred hymns "jubilee" sin...

This fine big band was originally formed by drummer Willie Lynch as the Blue Rhythm Band in 1930 and as the Coconut Grove Orchestra, provid...

During the reigning years of San Francisco headband Country Joe and the Fish, singer and songwriter Joe McDonald took some time out to...

Woody Guthrie was the most important American folk music artist of the first half of the 20th century, in part because he turned out to be...