Library Rock's Backpages

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers: Live (Beserkley); The Tyla Gang: Yachtless (Beserkley)

Dave Schulps, Crawdaddy!, April 1978

BESERKLEY RECORDS certainly keep things interesting. Slightly over a year ago they became the first American New Wave independent to secure a distribution deal with a major company (CBS) and seemed poised to at least make a ripple, if not a splash, in the biz in 1977 with their small but talented roster: Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Earthquake, the Rubinoos and Greg Kihn.

Total word count of piece: 689

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.