This week’s 17th edition of WXPN’s Non-COMMvention drew hundreds of programmers, managers, publicists, and a variety of Triple A (Adult Album Alternative) radio and music insiders from across the US. The iconic Philadelphia station, which is the home of the […]
The Dream Syndicate’s full-length debut represents a spectacularly quick climb to prominence. The band’s first EP (on Wynn’s own Down There label) certainly hinted at what was to come (not least of which for its inclusion of early versions of […]
No one seems to know who first uttered that famous line about how the Velvet Underground’s debut album sold only a few thousand copies but all to people who wound up starting bands. What is clear is that the statement […]
It was a dramatic and gripping Oscar-winning 1962 movie. It was a seminal indie rock record of the 1980s. It was an astonishing debut. The Dream Syndicate’s The Days Of Wine And Roses has long been considered the cornerstone album of L.A.’s early ’80s […]
