Ugly Things
Established in 1983, Ugly Things is a music magazine, based in La Mesa, California. Originally published annually, it is now published twice yearly and covers mainly 1960s Beat, Garage rock, and psychedelic music ("Wild Sounds From Past Dimensions"). It is now accompanied by an online edition.
14 articles
List of articles in the library
Outsiders, The (Holland): Wally Tax of the Outsiders: An Interview
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Ugly Things, 1998
OF ALL THE GREAT BANDS who sang in English as a second language in the 1960s, the Outsiders were the coolest. It's a subjective judgment, ...
The Real Kids: It's Been Real: The Real Kids
Interview by Dave Laing (Australia), Ugly Things, 1999
IN THE SPRING '78 issue of Bernie Kugel's cool fanzine Big Star there is an article by Miriam Linna called "The New Sounds of the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Kieron Tyler, Ugly Things, 2002
ALTHOUGH EATER were at the centre of the great British punk rock storm of 1976, they've never been treated with the cap-doffing respect granted to ...
Book Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Ugly Things, Summer 2005
IF SOCRATES, the George Carlin of his day, was right that "the unexamined life is not worth living," then The Monkees have nothing to worry ...
Book Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Ugly Things, Summer 2005
GENE CLARK of the Byrds was many things - a charismatic stage presence in a '60s band that became an American icon; a gifted and ...
Overview by Dave Laing (Australia), Ugly Things, August 2006
(Note: the following piece was written prior to the recent release of the wonderful UK 2CD set At Full Speed: The Complete Sire Recordings, which ...
Book Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Ugly Things, Summer 2006
LET'S TALK, BRIEFLY, about what constitutes a biography. From James Boswell writing in the late 1700s about Dr. Samuel Johnson to Hunter Davies in the ...
Retrospective by Jon Savage, Ugly Things, February 2008
NOTE: This was written as an introduction to a brilliant Ugly Things article by Johan Kugelberg called "No More Jubilees: Punk Before Punk", which aimed ...
Various Artists: THE T.A.M.I. Show (Shout Factory)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Gene Sculatti, Ugly Things, 2009
FIRST OFF, any regular reader of this publication whose home doesn't house a copy of this DVD–man, where are you at? Filmed before a Santa ...
Dwight Twilley Band: Live From Agora (Gigatone)
Review by Dave Laing (Australia), Ugly Things, 2010
POWER POP ICONS the Dwight Twilley Band shared a number of attributes with Big Star apart from the obvious '70s power pop connection. Both band's ...
Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention: Frank Zappa: The Freak-Out List (Chrome Dreams)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Gene Sculatti, Ugly Things, 2010
YOU GOTTA HAND it to the folks at Chrome Dreams. Recognizing a good thing, they've come up with yet another "unauthorized" Zappa title (their fifth, ...
Gene Clark: The Byrd Who Flew Alone: The Triumphs and Tragedy of Gene Clark (Four Suns DVD)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Ugly Things, Spring 2014
OF ALL THE hard-luck tales about musicians who died before their time – Brian Jones, Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Parsons, Bloomfield, Cobain, Winehouse, et al. – ...
Book Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Ugly Things, Summer 2019
WHAT CAN BE said about the artist known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins? Perhaps that he did more to promote over-population than any other American, fathering ...
The Seeds: Jan Savage 1942-2020
Obituary by Harvey Kubernik, Ugly Things, 11 August 2020
JAN SAVAGE (born Buck Jan Reeder), guitarist with American rock band the Seeds, died in early August, according to a report in The Ada News ...
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