Solid Gold Easy Action

Well, ladies and gents, I'm sorry to say that I'm going to be taking a break from Solid Gold Easy Action for a while... I've jus...

Looking back, the whole “garage rock revival” of the early 2000’s was one of my favorite parts of growing up. Having already been exposed t...

This is the second day in a row that we’ve had an album from someone named Price, and if yesterday’s Alan Price LP offered an interesting gl...

Alan Price’s soundtrack for Lindsay Anderson’s bizarre 1973 allegorical dark comedy, O Lucky Man! , is a marvelous example of a film that co...

Michael Jackson’s death back in June has, for some reason or another, made an impression on basically every single human being alive. I’d r...

The fabulously named Juan Ravioli is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Buenos Aires, and, judging from the strength of Al...

Gruff Rhys might not be a household name (even in indie households, if there exist such things), but as a behind-the-scenes sort of eccentri...

One of the best things about the late 60’s and early 70’s was the wealth of bizarre concept albums that never really took off. For every To...

There was a time in the mid/late 90’s when London’s Ninja Tune records virtually ruled the digital underground, with practically everything ...

Bertrand Burgalat's got style, and lots of it. As a singer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, record label head, and impeccably sharp dr...

Andre Williams is one of the badassiest badasses in all of badassdom. If you need proof, just read some of the Black Godfather’s song title...

Even though I love tropicália music, it’s hard to deny that Caetano Veloso is a douchebag. His politics, his egotism, and his sheer obnoxio...

Frederick Delius is one of those delightful mystery men of classical music – a composer whose works are not generally considered part of the...

Bloggers far more knowledgeable about the indie world than I have termed Toro Y Moi's mellow electronica-esque music "chillwave...

It's been a while since I last posted any classic R&B here on Solid Gold Easy Action, so I feel it's about time that The O'J...

It's odd that among all of Europe's great pop music eccentrics, some garner sizable cult audiences in the US and UK, while others ac...

Among all the bogstandard lo-fi "psychedelic" bands in the world, you'd be hard-pressed to find one more warm, hypnotic, and m...

It's hard for Americans to understand the UK's obsession with reggae, especially since the only authentic Jamaican reggae singer to ...

Believe it or not, there was once a time when MF Doom did not rule the seedy, befuddling world of underground hip-hop. Those were the days ...

John "Speedo" Reis is an old-school badass: pompadour'd and usually clad in a leather jacket and Levi's, he has spent the ...

Silvestre Revueltas's symphonic tone poems may never be performed by the New York Philharmonic, and classical music snobs may never drop...

Gosh. It's been a while since I heard an album like this - an album that sounds like it was tailor-made to rock my world. Zoos Of Berl...

No one has really offered a really convincing argument for whether or not the French can rock (for every hot Johnny Hallyday tune there'...

The last track on this album is named "Your Party Will Be A Success". If we (probably wrongly) assume that this track refers to t...

German Oak's 1972 debut has a backstory so odd and compelling that only a solid gold krautrock masterpiece could live up to it. Thankfu...