Howard Kaylan was shaking in his boots. His band, The Turtles, were riding high as their joyous ray of pop-rock sunshine “Happy Together” was sitting atop the singles charts at #1 in 1967, but the singer had gotten his draft card in the mail. Suddenly, there was the very real possibility that he was going [...]

Time may have passed the Meat Puppets by, but the great thing about the brothers Kirkwood — plus drummer Ted Marcus — is they don’t care about trying to keep up with current trends. Sure their high-water mark, at least commercially, was Too High To Die, which somehow dovetailed with the grunge phenomenon of the [...]

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There’s a difference, obviously, between being child-like and childish. Undoubtedly, Elizabeth & The Catapults are more the former than the latter. Propelled by the bouncy piano stylings and classic pop sensibilities of Elizabeth Abby Lynn Ziman, Elizabeth & The Catapults — rounded out by guitarist Pete Lalish and drummer Danny Molad — find common ground [...]