http://blog.familyofrock.com The official home of Rock Family Trees Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:28:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's not only Rock Family Trees Around Here. Pete Frame is also the author of the brilliant The Restless Generation: How Rock Music Changed the Face of 1950s Britain The book tells the story of the early development of British rock music, starting from an extraordinary mix of jazz, blues and ... http://blog.familyofrock.com/index.php/2010/09/pete-frames-the-restless-generation/ Who’d have thought it? It’s taken a few days to sink in round here, but were they really on top of the album charts last week? Check out the album: The Final Frontier - Iron Maiden And what’s more there have been no more personnel changes since Pete drew his tree in ... http://blog.familyofrock.com/index.php/2010/09/iron-maiden-back-on-top/ Or to be more accurate the ferry terminal in St Helier in the Channel Island of Jersey, musing on that perennial question: why is it that UK place names fail to have the poetic resonance of their US counterparts? There seem to be no British equivalents of being stuck inside ... http://blog.familyofrock.com/index.php/2010/08/i-was-sitting-on-the-dock-of-the-bay/ I know we are still, officially, in the height of summer, but it won't be long before the nights start drawing in. And here is the problem. You've long finished the Sopranos. The Wire, the world's best ever social science fiction, has run its course. Mad Men is stylish fun ... http://blog.familyofrock.com/index.php/2010/08/homicide-life-in-the-street-and-grunge/ And was it just in London, or the whole of Britain? As if by magic, to celebrate the special deal on our London R&B Explosion tree (just £150 until the end of the month) some good hearted soul has posted the TV programme Rock Family Trees: The British R&B Boom on ... http://blog.familyofrock.com/index.php/2010/08/was-is-an-explosion-or-just-a-boom/ There's that time of day when you a need a few minutes relief. Maybe that's why you are here. We came across a site called Stumbleupon where you register your interests and it takes you to sites recommended by people who like similar things to you. Here are two of ... http://blog.familyofrock.com/index.php/2010/08/riffs-and-sequences/ Clive Langer, proud owner of Liverpool 1980: Eric's Progeny, limited edition tree no 1/100, reminds us that Deaf School, top of the tree, and founders of it all, are playing at Dublin Castle in Camden on August 5th and 6th. Here they are, cooler than Roxy. Tickets here. And if you have ... http://blog.familyofrock.com/index.php/2010/07/deaf-school-at-dublin-castle/ but why did no-one tell me about 60's East L.A. Mexican band The Village Callers? So obscure they don't even have their own Wikipedia page, although a Wiki search reveals that their track Hector has been widely sampled; for example by Ice Cube on 'Jackin' for Beats', Cypress Hill on ... http://blog.familyofrock.com/index.php/2010/07/i-know-ive-led-a-sheltered-life/ We have just added two superb trees to the shop: Out in the Streets, which documents the early punk scene in New York, and the London R&B Explosion, which looks at a similar burst of energy, culminating in the Rolling Stones, in London about two decades earlier. Just until the end ... http://blog.familyofrock.com/index.php/2010/07/out-in-the-streets-and-the-london-rb-explosion/ Obviously enough from the Banshees and Buzzcocks tree, in the Rock Family Trees volume. http://blog.familyofrock.com/index.php/2010/07/siouxsie-in-her-own-words/